In today’s press conference, President Obama lamented that “new drilling won’t be online soon” and then lamented that “we’ve been having this conversation for nearly four decades now.”
Indeed, if those who opposed drilling in the past, like the president and his allies, had relented, we might have had the new drilling operating by now.
So are we now back to checking the air in our tires-type solutions he was offering in the past?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt’s hard to imagine unemployment ending up below 9% on election day if gas is at $4.00 a gallon over the next year, and if gas prices are about $4 a gallon and unemployment is above 9% on election day, it’s sort of hard to imagine Obama winning reelection. (PLEASE let us hope we don’t pick someone unelectable; it will be disastrous if Obama is reelected.) However, Obama seems strangely unconcerned about high gas prices, or if he is concerned, he is completely unserious about it. I don’t think we should take his cluelessness on gas prices as a sign that he doesn’t care about reelection or is trying to sabotage our country. Instead, we should just see it as yet another sign of how little Obama knows about economics as well as energy and yet feels himself qualified to lecture on any subject.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJim, what he said was worse than a fake lament about drilling. Here's a full paragraph:
"Every few years, gas prices go up; politicians pull out the same old political playbook, and then nothing changes. And when prices go back down, we slip back into a trance. And then when prices go up, suddenly we’re shocked. I think the American people are tired of that. I think they’re tired of talk. We’ve got to work together -– Democrats, Republicans, and everybody in between –- to finally secure America’s energy future. I don’t want to leave this for the next President, and none of us should want to leave it for our kids."
Every single word out of his mouth is BS. He talks like he's not even president. Can liberals even defend this stuff?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseReal unemployment is 17.4% and over 24,000,000 people. The only reason it shows 8.9% or having dropped is that they do not count people that have fallen off of unemployment rolls and given up looking. But the fact remains over 20,000,000 people have no job today that had a job in 2008.
Real unemployment and "unemployment" are not the same thing. Even as "unemployment is dropping, Real Unemployment is getting worse.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNothing ever changes.
Biden was one of the strongest opponents of the Trans-Alaska pipeline in the early seventies. One of his favorite arguments was that it would take years to see even a drop of oil.
Since then, some 16 Billion barrels of oil has been pumped through that pipeline.
What is Biden's position on oil now? Opposed, of course, because any new development will take years before we see a drop of oil.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe BHO Energy Plan:
Phase 1: Inflate Tires
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePhase 2: ?????
Phase 3: Energy Independence!
Right, yeah, that's a case with no logic.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Longest journey begins with first step." --Confuscious
"Check your tire pressure often." --Confused (aka Obama)
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