President Obama Strikes Back At GOP Critics On Gas Prices

March 10, 2012 9:40 AM

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gasoline prices.

Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to underscore his administration’s work to develop alternative energy sources and increase fuel efficiency.

“I’m going to keep doing everything I can to help you save money on gas, both right now and in the future,” Obama said. “I hope politicians from both sides of the aisle join me.”

He accused Republicans of a “bumper sticker” approach to solving the nation’s energy problems.

It’s a familiar theme —Obama stuck many of the same chords during two out-of-town trips this week and during a White House news conference on Wednesday.

“We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices — not when we consume 20 percent of the world’s oil,” Obama said in the address, recorded during a visit Friday to a Virginia jet engine component plant.

In the Republican weekly address, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple accused the Obama administration of blocking projects and technology that would allow greater energy production. He singled out the Keystone XL pipeline project, which Obama deferred.

“We cannot effectively market our crude oil domestically without a large north-south pipeline,” Dalrymple said. “North Dakota oil producers were scheduled to feed the Keystone pipeline with 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day.”

Obama said there wasn’t enough time to properly study the project ahead of the deadline forced upon him by Republican congressional lawmakers. On Thursday, the Democratic-controlled Senate blocked another Republican bid to speed approval of the pipeline, which would stretch from Canada to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Also Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Obama is partly to blame for higher prices at the pump.

Gasoline prices paused this week in their march toward $4 per gallon.

After 39 straight days of increases, prices fell nearly a penny from Tuesday to Thursday and held steady on Friday at $3.758 per gallon for the national average. The lull won’t last long, and gas is still nearly 50 cents higher than it was at the beginning of the year.

Despite Romney’s assertions, economists say there’s not much a president of either party could do about gasoline prices. The current increases at the pump have been driven by fears of a war with oil-rich Iran and by higher demand in the U.S. as well as in China, India and other growing nations.

President Obama Strikes Back At GOP Critics On Gas Prices

Jack

Obama is about the biggest hypocrite and outright liar we’ve had in the Oval Office in decades. Not since Nixon have we seen so unethical a president.

TFK1155

Amen Brother.

QuackAttack

Just another daily example, of the fact that everytime O opens his crooked mouth, the exact opposite of what he says, is the actual truth.
SayItAgain

Obama makes no decisions after the coup and cover up. Unelected officials took over Washington and the media. They think you can’t handle the truth. Fact of the matter is we have no democracy, president, and freedom of press is an illusion.

Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out. Search PalinsDirtyLittleSecret for the biggest cover up in history

Dorkyman

My thoughts exactly.

Whenever Messiah opens his mouth, I can usually add up the number of lies, strawmen, and half-truths as he goes. Comes to about one item every three sentences.

What a creep. I have to wonder if he really believes the bull he is spewing, or just chalking it up to the politics of getting re-elected.

Moses

Barack Obama is a bald faced LIAR. Tens of millions of Americans are needlessly suffering simply because he doesn’t want to upset his left win loon base. He disgusts me to the core.

It costs us $100 to fill up our gas tanks and he tells us to inflate our tires, get a tune up, or slop some algae in our tank. Then hims and Michelle Antoinette jump on a 747 to burn 40,000 gallons of jet fuel for “date night”. And we foot the gas bill!

We import 4,000,000 barrels a day from OPEC.

1) ANWR could be flowing 1,000,000 barrels a day blocked by Obama and democrats. If Bill Clinton hadn’t vetoed it in 1995 it would be up and running today!
2) Keystone pipeline could be flowing 800,000 barrels a day blocked by Obama and democrats.
3) Trillion barrels of shale oil locked up on federal land blocked by Obama and democrats.
4) Tens of billions of barrels off our coasts blocked by an Obama executive order and democrats.

ANWR and Keystone get us nearly half way there to making OPEC irrelevant. We import a million barrels a day from Saudi Arabia so ANWR alone would allow us to cut them off and tell them to pss up a rope. But we can’t because of… Obama and democrats.

Obama says we only have 2% of the worlds oil supply he’s a liar. We have a 800 billion barrels of retrievable shale oil that’s six four times Saudi reserves if we added this oil to ANWR and Keystone we could get rid of our dependence on OPEC entirely. So when Obama says we can’t drill our way our of this he’s a liar.

Problem is 80% of our shale oil is on federal land and it’s use is blocked by Obama and democrats. When oil was $140 a barrel republicans forced a vote on shale oil and it was rejected along straight party line votes. All democrats against all republicans for if this doesn’t make Reagan democrats mad I don’t know what will.

We could easily replace all of the oil we import from OPEC and it could be done in a matter of years. So Obama is lying to the American people killing jobs and causing all of this needless suffering due to high energy prices because he’s beholden to his whack job left wing loon base that’s hysterical over an imaginary temperature rise 100 years from now. He’s making tens of millions of Americans suffer for his own political gain.

And he has the gall and audacity to blame others when he’s the sole source of strangling our domestic energy production. He says oil production is up since he became president. That’s in spite of him and his policies. The oil is coming from leases granted by Bush and from shale oil production on private land. Since he’s become president drilling permits are down 70%. He’s twisting the truth and lying again.

The truth is we have enough fossil fuel to last us centuries in this country and the only reason we’re not getting it is because of Barack Obama and his willing accomplices democrats. We have enough oil to last us 250 years, coal to last us 400 years, and natural gas for 200 years and liberal politicians are the only stopping us from getting it.

Wake up people enough is enough!

You’ve got eight more months you lying dirt bag in the White House… until we the people flush you and all the rest of your Marxist anti-American anti-energy production let wing liberal ideologues out of power. It can’t come soon enough.

Hmm

Mr. Obama makes Mr. Nixon look like an political amateur – we have a new biggest loser…folks! (;-})

alina

so true
Alice Gibson

Amen!!

Eddy James

I would pick Nixon over Obama any day of the year.Nixon was only guilty of covering up his parties spying on Democrats. How was that a bad idea? They need to be under intense surveillance at all times or they will steal what ever isn’t tied down.Don’t you wish now that someone had been spying on the Democrats while they were busy plotting against all of us in their Obama Care closed negotiations?

Red 5

The Dems should be under intense surveilance at all times with Joe McCarthy style investigations and hearings.
Osamas Pajamas

Spying on the Democrats is no different than spying on the Mafia or the Nazi party or the Moo-Slum Brotherhood.

joanne

I absolutely agree. Thjis wanna be king is dangerous!
period.
November can’t come soon enough!!
artyparty

hypocrite how? outright liar in what way? please, enough foxnews talking points say something that is factual for a CHANGE.

Mike

Perhaps he will cease with the “Fox News talking points” when you cease the George Soros talking points. As for Obama being a liar, it’s pretty obvious when he claims to be “doing everything” he can to lower gas p[rices when just this past week he personally phoned Dem senators to oppose fast-tracking the Keystone pipeline proposal. It would have been left up to Nebraska officials to determine a final route.
robert b

I’ll tell you how Obama is an outright liar. Search Youtube and you will see him respond to a question about $4.00 a gallon gas by saying that he just wishes it hadn’t gotten so high so soon. He’s not opposed to higher gas prices, he just laments that they went up too fast, and he wasn’t able to offer tax credits or whatever to lessen the blow. Second, on youtube search “Obama on cap and trade” and he will say to your face that under his plan energy prices will skyrocket and consrumers will have to bear the brunt of those costs. And by that he’s talking about coal, natural gas and oil. Third, if he wants to lessen the pain at the pump all he has to do is ask congress to suspend federal gasolone taxes for 6 months. Obama’s view is that if gas prices are high enough, fewer people will drive, and therefore the environment will be better off. Do not be fooled by this guy; he has shown over and over again that he cannot be trusted. So when he answers a reporter with “Do you really believe that in an election year a president would campaign to raise gas prices?’ he is lying because anyone who bothers to listen to the things he says knows one of his goals is to make energy more expensive so consumers will use less. You know, if he had allowed drilling to occur when he bacame president, we mihgt just have quite a bit more oil than we do now, mightn’t we?
rangerrebew

I don’t note you provided anything in the way of facts refuting the comments. Probably because you have no facts. Commiecrats think with their emotions, not their heads. Ali Bama wa supposed to be the great uniter but has turned out to be the great divider (divide being the root word of diversity). But then commiecrats have been the great dividing party since the Civil War when Cooperheads favored slavery; that paragon of liberalism, Woodrow Wilson, ex-klan member and the person who caused segregation in the military; the dixiecrats who fought for segregation and caused Johnson to thank republicans for passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964; senate majority leader and klansman “sheets Byrd”; J$ss$ J$cks$n and Al Sharptongue who continue to try and divide the races. That is YOUR party.
DetterDan

Gosh where do we start. I know, when he stated that oil prices must necessarily go up…but he didn’t think they would go up that fast.

He ran off the gulf oil well drilling, he stopped all offshore drilling, he stopped the pipeline from Canada..

You need more, read the bloody news and watch CSPAN. CSPAN the most liberal state paid for TV is now vetting Obama.

You can’t face the facts, you are the one with the talking points.
Steven H Ahle

Fact: The areas of energy production he controls, offshore and government lands have seen a 40% decrease in production. The areas he can’t control, private land, there is a huge increase.

Fact, after three years of investigation, the Keystone Pipeline was cleared for construction by his own administration. Obama stopped it.

Fact: Obama’s own advisor said he was dead wrong on stopping Keystone.His name is Broderick Johnson. So why did Obama ignore his own advisor’s advice? Because it would not get him campaign cash from the Sierra Club.

And he is not the only advisor he ignored.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/16/obamas-one-time-national_n_1154084.html?just_reloaded=1

If I’ve said anything that offended you, I’d just like you to know, I am so glad I did. The truth always hurts lie berals
Beverly Utter

oBAMA promised to lower the deficit his first term in office. If you call adding 5 Trillion to the debt then he told the truth. When he shut down lots of the oil rigs and then gets on TV touting how he increased production of oil when he lowered federal lands production and only because of PRIVATE drilling did we get more oil. He is deceitful in many ways,. He wants to lower taxes before an election but will raise them if he is re-elected. God help us.
Mac2.o

Read up on his pal Warren Buffet – who is a major Obama contributor. Warren is heavily invested in a railway to haul oil from Canada to Texas refineries. He stands to lose money if the pipeline goes through, so his boy Obama is making sure that doesn’t happen. Look up “Burlington Northern Among Pipeline Winners” on Bloomberg.com. Follow the money… It’s the Chicago way, Obama doesn’t do anything without a payoff.
tat2d1

This is all factual you sheep.
Jan

Isn’t the Obama energy secretary that guy who said he would like to see gas prices in America be at the same level as they are in Europe?
also, this is the President who had no problem blaming George Bush for high gas prices. So suddenly, he wants us all to know that Presidents can’t do much to affect gas prices??? He was singing a different tune in 2008 and 2006.
lincoln

“hypocrite how?” – can you read? There is a ton of substantive arguments on this page. Why don’t you read them and pick out a point you disagree with and argue it rather than crying about Foxnews. How weak!!!
Admiral Kirk

Wow!! You must be blind and living under a MSNBC-vermin infested rock if you actually have to ask that question!!

There is simply no help for morons like you…do us all a favor and avoid procreating…your genes are tainted!

Barack Hussein Obama (mmm mmmm mmm) will lose in November to whoever we nominate…because anyone is better than Odumbo!!!

daryl

Mr Oblabla…you can help us save on gas by pushing for the keystone and then resigning
bob jones

He’s just doing what he promised years ago, when he said under his regime, “energy costs would necessarily skyrocket.”
Charlie

Hypocrite and liar. Amen. He has done absolutely NOTHING to lower gas prices. He touts a 2025 50-mpg car as the answer. He wants more people dependent on government to ensure his re-electioin. Approve Keystone and approve Gulf drilling premits and gas will go down as will unemployment. And, it will cost the government nothing and even make the govt money. They aren’t the total answer but they are a start.
Moses

Barack Obama is a bald faced LIAR. Tens of millions of Americans are needlessly suffering simply because he doesn’t want to upset his left win loon base. He disgusts me to the core.

It costs us $100 to fill up our gas tanks and he tells us to inflate our tires, get a tune up, or slop some algae in our tank. Then hims and Michelle Antoinette jump on a 747 to burn 40,000 gallons of jet fuel for “date night”. And we foot the gas bill!

We import 4,000,000 barrels a day from OPEC.

1) ANWR could be flowing 1,000,000 barrels a day blocked by Obama and democrats. If Bill Clinton hadn’t vetoed it in 1995 it would be up and running today!
2) Keystone pipeline could be flowing 800,000 barrels a day blocked by Obama and democrats.
3) Trillion barrels of shale oil locked up on federal land blocked by Obama and democrats.
4) Tens of billions of barrels off our coasts blocked by an Obama executive order and democrats.

We could easily replace all of the oil we import from OPEC and it could be done within the next five to ten years. ANWR and Keystone alone would get us half way there and add shale oil and offshore drilling and it’s a done deal. Keystone would be flowing in three years.

And we’re forced to listen to the LIar in Chief saying there’s no way we can drill our way out of this and he has the gall and audacity to blame others for high energy prices when he’s the sole source of strangling our domestic energy production.

The truth is we have enough fossil fuel to last us centuries in this country and the only reason we’re not getting it is because of Barack Obama and democrats.

We have enough oil to last us 250 years, coal to last us 400 years, and natural gas for 200 years and liberal politicians are the only stopping us from getting it.

Wake up people enough is enough! Especially the hard working Reagan democrats we have to flush this Marxist anti-American anti-energy production let wing liberal megalomaniac out of power. November can’t come soon enough.
time bomb

You are correct. obama is a liar! , and so are the dems and tree huggers,. if we would have drilled 20-30 years ago, we would nor be here. I see obama drowning in a puddle of oil.

porcorosso

Everything except opening ANWR,, Gulf drilling, and OKing the pipeline from Canada.Obama’s actions are the absolute negation of his words.

wodun

Hey, at least he was willing to give a billion to Brazil to help them drill for oil. Help Americans drill for oil? Wouldn’t be prudent…

Heh, he treats Iran better than he treats Republicans and that says a lot about his ethos and world view.

who Cares

The billions to brazil went to Soros’s Oil company. Like Solyndra & others Obama had to payback his campaign donors with tax payer money. Chicago rules you understand.
Tab Numlock

Obama has a fixation on Brazil, a county of mulattoes like himself. He has a race obsession, which his life’s history proves. He laughs at whites, whom he manipulates with a smile and hollow words, especailly air-headed white women.

RallyG

The dishonest creep Odumbo and his cabal of leftists are doing everything they can to stifle tapping of our own plentiful resources.
He’s a liar and a phony. Nothing else.
But Seriously Folks

Everything dear leader says is garbage, garbage, garbage. Everytime there is a “gas crisis” people say there is no “quick solution.” How about this: start a slow solution NOW and make it one that does not involve “green” technology. We know what works, let’s not “reinvent the wheel,” or the internal combustion engine to satisfy the irrational science-fiction based fear that global warming is.

Jimmy Carter

You need to put a sweater on, turn your thermostat down, get on your bike and shut-up.

Fran

“I’m going to keep doing everything I can to help you save money on gas, both right now and in the future,” Obama said. “I hope politicians from both sides of the aisle join me.”

Like promoting drilling, clean coal, fracking, taking away writeoffs from Big Oil? Things like that?

TFK1155

No. Just make it so expensive that you can’t buy it. You will save a fortune. So ob figures that should you lose your job, you will have that fortune to fall back on.
Fuel crisis and employment crisis solved.

Besides it’s all Bush’s fault. LMAO
Condor

How would increasing the tax burden on oil companies decrease cost at the pump when corporate taxes are paid by the consumer? Oil companies have a smaller profit margin than most companies already, but the ignorant electorate doesn’t understand complicated concepts like that.

carl6352

you have to laugh when he says stuff like this. i mean come on people this is better than stand up.

SerfCityHereWeCome

To a point, but it’s hard to muster much laughter until the cancer is excised.
Steve Bensen

He thinks we believe the tripe

James Smith

“Despite Romney’s assertions, economists say there’s not much a president of either party could do about gasoline prices. The current increases at the pump have been driven by fears of a war with oil-rich Iran and by higher demand in the U.S. as well as in China, India and other growing nations”

Really? Reagan removed price controls of oil and the price of gas dropped about 35% in six months.. Can anyone in the media tell the truth? .

bob jones

Ron Paul just said he could get gas down to 10 cents a gallon.

Aaron

Is obama gonna help me tune up my car and make sure I have enough air in my tires? Or is he going to give me some Algae for my gas tank? If the dems let us explore and drill in the mid 1990′s we would be seeing the rewards from that by now. Drilling now is not an overnight solution. It’s a LONG TERM solution and we should be doing it NOW!

porcorosso

Cheaper energy means greater prosperity which leads to less dependence on government, so The Tin-pot Totalitarian will do everything he can to increase our energy costs across the board.

Hetz

He says this two days after he and his party killed the Keystone Pipeline for the third time! His energy secretary has stated twice that their policy goal was to raise gasoline prices. Does anyone believe Obama anymore?

The only bright spot in the economy are the increases in oil and gas production due to “fracking”. His EPA is drawing up regulations to kill this too – after the election of course. Only a nation of fools would re-elect this guy.

Norbert G. Ginsel

One nation of fools, coming right up!
SerfCityHereWeCome

Speaking of fracking, did anyone else notice the desperate flailing from the State Media on the subject? Caught part of the nightly Obamadinejad infomercial last night, i.e., the Can’t Be Serious Evening Editorial with Scott Pelley, just for some laughs, and they’re trying desperately to get people to buy the idea that a few minor earthquakes in NE Ohio (i.e., a swing state) were caused by FRACKING! You can’t make this stuff up, although it’s encouraging if they’ve reached this level of panic.

TFK1155

Only ob could come up with that. Fracking oil and gas wells Has at least been around since I worked for an exploration company 40 years ago. Its just got more efficient with changes in technology.
JON Lussier

I saw that article. What a joke! Only his minions would believe that.
I live 9 miles from a store in Wash. state. I have two German Shepards.
I need a van to get around and take my dogs to the vet ,etc.

There is no way that I can ride a bike or take a bus, plus it rains here
half of the time. Can you imagine a senior person on a bike
with bags of wet groceries.

This man has no clue as to how some ordinary people live.

Norbert G. Ginsel

Barry has already said that there are no quick fixes to gasoline prices. If that is so, then it makes no differences what he does. SO long as he is anti-oil, he will not come up with any policy for energy except pie-in-the-sky stuff, which will offer no quick fixes either. I expect him to start taking credit for the existence of NatGas in the US. Maybe he can float that boat for his election campaign. That lie is as good as any other.
phil

WeWE don’t need you to do anything, imbicile. Just stop doing anything; especially running for a second term and prices would start to drop immediately.
Exnjcop

Every current article on gas prices now contains the caveat that there is nothing a President can do to lower prices. This apologia was not contained in any article written in 2008 reporting on Candidate Obama’s attack on President Bush for $1.84 a gallon gas.. Obama;s stimulus and bail-outs along with his drilling restrictions and have created a devalued dollar and no international fear of us even trying to become self-sufficient. He’s done everything he can to hurt the consumer and NOW he outright lies about it…and the press simply repeats the lie without a question.

Steve Bensen

the democrat media complex has no shame
american

Main stream media is dead! When russian media is now exposing the mess in America you know its true msm is dead. The sooner that people realize this the better off we will be. That should be our concerted effort to make people realize that they are being lied to and treated like idiots. Time to connect the dots. http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/07-03-2012/120708-arizona_sheriff_obama-0/

Melvin Painter

Now if we can just get everyone to buy a $40,000 electric car that will go a range of 40 miles, we’ll be just fine.

JustAGuy

Well, Obama spent a huge sum of stimulous money on a $100,000 electric car called the Karma.

That one will go 200 miles before it permanentlyshuts down.

Auzzievick

Read what Consumer Reports has to say on it; doesn’t even look like it will go THAT far.
TFK1155

Yea, but look at the savings on gas and electricity combined.. You can get a horse or an oxen to pull it.
SerfCityHereWeCome

TFK,
Only if it doesn’t “brick” like a Tesla, LOL!
Red 5

Yea but that car runs on coal. We all know what plans Obama has for the coal industry.

JustAGuy

There’s a defininition of the sort of lying Barack Obama is telling. I believe it’s called a pathology.

I wonder if Obama thinks he can say any outrageous thing, and the media and Democrats will just believe him.
JAG

The foreign born communist spawn of islam is getting exactly what he wanted. America on the verge of collapse.
Kathy

He’s a liar. That’s all he knows how to do. Get in your Volt Obama and ride out into the sunset. We cannot afford these high gas prices any longer. November can’t come fast enough.

Larry

Give him an SUV a volt would only get him to the city limits of DC

Jerry

No, confine him to the limits of Gitmo. We don’t want him near D.C.

Joe Doakes

BS!

I love gasoline! President Obama hates gasoline!

February 24, 2012

Dear President Obama,

Some day soon if I’m running across the national mall shouting “Wolverines!” while carrying an empty gas can, looking for some of that “Obama Algae,” at least you cannot say you were not warned. This nations 15 Trillion dollar economy is entirely dependent on the creation, refining, distribution, and consumption of natural resources like coal, oil, and natural gas. Each one of these components intermingle in a dance of price, supply, quantity, and demand. Their existence and availability is constantly perturbed by people of your ideological ilk that threaten these companies with onerous taxation and nationalization; up to and including, through direct threats and/or intrusive regulation. A gallon of gasoline should be considered a national hero. It provides us freedom of movement, and the ability to move about a great nation with a level of convenience only known to modern humanity.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that when a nation as vital as ours is to a stable and advancing world; lazily relies on a portion of the world wracked with insanity, like the middle east is and will always be, we are committing an act of insanity ourselves. We even set up a federal department to fix this situation, which of course, they have made far worse. We have all of the resources we need here to become self sufficient. We have the oil, we have the natural gas, we have the coal, we have nuclear power; but more then that, we have the can do American ingenuity, and positive spirit, that has been and will always be our greatest weapon in defeating any adversary or national challenge.

Your administration has squandered billions on chasing the unicorn of the liberal free lunch, often referred to as “renewable energy.” One only needs to watch “Mr. Wizards World” to realize the foolishness in this pursuit on a national scale. I could build you a solar powered car, with a rechargeable battery, and then if I could find a human the size of a Luke Skywalker action figure it would work just fine. Just so long as it never left the driveway. In reality, electric cars can’t work because of size and weight. If we abandoned the safety features of these cars they would work, and people buy motorcycles so why would they not buy those electric cars? I’ll tell you why. Because you look like a dork in one. On a motorcycle you look cool. But If you want an electric car it can be done, and somebody will buy it. But it can’t be done with crony capitalism, lawsuit city, and federal regulation, plus Ralph Nader in the passenger seat!

So you keep droning on about it’s not my fault. It’s not my fault we invaded Libya. It’s not my fault that we have destabilized Egypt who is in possession of M1 Abrams tanks and F-16’s. It’s not my fault that tax receipts are falling. It’s not my fault that good Americans can’t find work. It’s not my fault that I’ve not done what had to be done to get this economy moving. It’s not my fault that I’ve so mismanaged NASA that we can’t even launch a capsule with an American in it without paying a gangster like Putin the vig. It’s not my fault that guns have been given to the worst of the worst because my attorney general ok’d the dumbest idea since the Edsel. Its not my fault that this war for one side of the same muslim/arab coin is lining up for a mushroom cloud. Would you like me to continue? Because I’m ready willing and able to do so.

“We the People” have taken enough blame from the likes of you. In short order, we are going to drive to those polls and register our firm displeasure. Even if we can’t afford the gasoline to get there.

Respectfully,

Joe Doakes

DrEdu

AMEN!
TFK1155

Joe. Great thinking and writing. But to be fair to ob you have to understand it;s either George Bush’s fault or the founding fathers. LOL

all jokes aside ,keep it coming
SerfCityHereWeCome

By the time he’s done, NASA won’t be able to retrieve a little girl’s cat from a young tree.
judithod

You said it, Joe!
dan

Oh Joe you better be ready for the IRS audit after this article,

Frank

Odumbo: “We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices..”

The h-e-double-hockey sticks we can’t buddy…

Toss this a-hole out in November…

SerfCityHereWeCome

Yet another jaw-slackening statement from Fearless Leader. It’s better to shut one’s piehole and appear economically illiterate than to open it and remove all doubt.

Robert

The real reason that gasoline prices are going up is not because of the tensions in Iran, etc. – the real reason is that the Federal Reserve is printing dollars as fast as they can. That is why you see prices increasing- not just for fuel but food, etc. The ruling class is stealing from us “common people” by inflating the currency and instead of doing the politically brave and honest thing and raising our taxes to pay for all the “free” entitlements that so many say they want they do the sneaky and underhanded thing by inflating the currency. This will not end well.

wodun

Gas and food are not counted in the inflation equation.

There is also a hidden inflation with food prices. Often, serving size is getting smaller while the price stays the same. Meaning you get less food for the same money.
SerfCityHereWeCome

Gold, silver & lead. Get ‘em while you can.

Blaine

I suppose Obama would simply have us all drive Priuses, that way the more gas prices go up the more money we’ll save! Brilliant!!!
Brian Astby

Barry needs to get fracked.
Aaron

0bama doesn’t like Coal but he wants us all to drive the Coal powered Chevy Volt. What happens when we strain the electrical grid? 49% of our electric power comes from COAL. You would need well over 240 Windmills to generate the same amount of electricity as 1 small Coal power plant.

wodun

Windmills are also a blight to the beauty of the environment, cause noise pollution, and kill lots of birds. Where is PETA when you need them?

bullrider

I’ve seen fools say that they think the wind turbines are ‘beautiful’. Personally, I think generators on utility poles are extremely handsome.

bullrider

240? Is that all? I would think at least 2400 of them, and one hell of a windy location 24x7x365.

Since you can’t count on the wind to blow that way you have to keep full power generating capacity from coal or nuclear etc. on line and running at all times. Big savings, eh? But don’t tell that to a Dem or a liberal because they don’t want to look past the end of their nose at anything that they want to believe in, whether it’s wind, or the windbag-in-chief.

Aaron

I guess it depends on how big the coal plant is. We have a small one near my home that’s about 600 megawatts. I think the average windmill makes about 2.5 megawatts at peak. I didn’t factor in that it would have to be windy 24/7/365… Same with solar panels, they generate even less megawatts than wind and it’s not sunny out when it’s night or when it rains or when it has a foot of snow on top of them… In fact, windmills make coal and gas plants less efficient. They have to power up and power down a lot more than needed to compensate for the inconsistent power from the windmill. When it’s windy, the coal plant powers down because the windmill is generating some power. When it’s not windy, the coal plant powers up to compensate for the loss of the windmill power and that wastes fuel. It’s like driving in stop and go traffic; it wastes more fuel than being at a consistent speed all the time like on a highway. Unfortunately Liberalism is a mental disorder and they cannot understand simple little facts. Common sense is not very common anymore.

wake_up

Unfortunately, progressive liberals are not smart enough to even think about the impact of what they want. They just want us to follow them like lemmings wherever they lead. Thanks for sharing this common sense! “Forget change, bring back common sense…”

Phillep Harding

(What’s this “posting comments too quickly”? I have not posted here for months.)

Toss up if Obama is a lying hypocrit or delusional. Or both.
Mark

I’ve seen president lies before, but I’ve never seen one that was incapable of telling the truth.
Of course Barry knows if he told the truth about his and the Democrat party’s plans for America, they would all lose in a landslide.
Mike

Let’s strike back at Obama and vote him out of office!