Obama’s Presser and Gas Prices: Which Time Were the Left Lying?
by Christopher C. HornerIt may just be wishful thinking but Politico’s ‘Morning Energy’ today was dropping heavy hints they expected President Obama to use this morning’s presser to defend against any culpability of his policies in ’skyrocketing’ gas prices.
Yeah, any such connection between Obama policies and energy prices is a pretty hard case to make, what with the Obama administration having immediately upon taking office canceled oil and gas leases, placed more areas off limits for domestic exploration and production, changing the Minerals Management Service to an offshore windmill permitting agency since all we need is some offshore windmills (not one but two senior administration officials have said this, including a cabinet secretary), then not letting the Gulf spill ‘go to waste’ by seizing it to strangle our biggest domestic source of oil.
Of course, there is also that long trail of aspirational comments, well beyond vowing to cause electricity prices to ’skyrocket’, indicating this steady gas price hike is their objective, even if overseas developments are causing problems for them [helping the rise advance too quickly such that people pay attention, with these developments adding to the price hikes the admin have built in, with much more obviously undone but hopefully on the way]. As I detailed with many more admissions ten months ago in Power Grab.
Obviously, this is one of the items worrying Team Obama, along with their foreign policy fecklessness. And — in lieu of gimmickry to redirect voters’ gazes from policies that contribute to this, such as by releasing Strategic [NB: not 'Political'] Petroleum Reserve crude — Obama cheerleaders (like Politico) note he could take the opportunity to push his “Clean Energy Standard”.
That’s one of the “other ways to skin the cat” after cap-and-trade failed legislatively. Of course, for one, that is an electricity standard, adding windmill and solar panel mandates that are superfluous to a GHG rationing scheme like EPA’s backdoor cap-n-trade. Because we drive wind- and solar-powered cars. Or something.
But speaking of EPA’s involvement in all of this, Speaker Boehner jabbed at it yesterday when co-incidentally rolling out the Republicans’ energy arguments, “American Energy”. This follows up Newt Gingrich’s chosen talking point — which of course draws no line to exclude stupid, costly and harmful ‘American energy’ like ethanol, windmills or solar panels, any more than that previous stab of “All of the Above”. Sigh. Will someone please stand up and yell “Stop!”?
Anyway, as part of that rollout the Speaker pointed out the administration’s policies including their regulations on greenhouse gases (EPA’s backdoor Kyoto) are responsible for some of the price hike.
Shocked, shocked! the Dems shrieked, how dare you, it’s idiotic to say that GHG regs on stationary sources like refineries increase the price of gasoline, per E&E News, in its lead story, ” Democrats cry foul over GOP’s attempts to tie fuel prices to EPA”:
“If they could fool people into believing there’s a connection, I think they would gain some political mileage, but it’s all deceptive,” said Rep. Henry Waxman of California [see below], the Energy and Commerce panel’s top Democrat and a chief author of that 2009 climate bill. “There’s no connection to EPA regulating greenhouse gases for certain stationary sources by requiring them to be more efficient and the price of gasoline.”…
“It reminds me of somebody who ate a hamburger and then ends up catching pneumonia and then says, ‘Hamburgers cause pneumonia,’” [Dem. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (MO)] said.
Mmm. There was also some muttering about how can rules that don’t go into effect until 2012 have contributed? — though they actually began taking effect January 2 [ See "the first step of this [EPA's] Tailoring Rule, which will begin on January 2, 2011″, showing EPA thinks refineries are so not nice that they’re covered twice!: ” all of the covered sources … will simply be adding a GHG component to what would be an otherwise occurring permitting action for conventional pollutants. These sources include fossil fuel-fired power plants, petroleum refineries, cement plants, iron and steel plants, pulp and paper plants, petroleum refineries,…”.] Not much attention to detail by this crowd, either at EPA, or on the Hill.
But, still, wait a sec.
Does anyone remember that $30 million “Say No on 23″ campaign by the Dems and their allies just this past fall? It included a long list of their claiming that Big Oil – specifically, refiners — were the dark forces behind trying to stop California’s version of Obama’s GHG regs (AB 32) from going into effect.
Which is it? a reporter might be prepared to ask today. Surely it will come up. It has to. Which time is your team lying, Mr. President? Was it, as you all said time and time — and time — again, the refiners who were behind the campaign saying that GHG regs will increase their costs — and yes, Virginia, costs are passed on to consumers — or is that now just a made up claim?
Did your team spend $tens of millions of dollars California saying refiners are the ones trying to stop GHG regs from going into effect by yelling about the cost, or not? Did we imagine this? Was that just made up?
If that did occur, why should we believe you now? And, if it was insincere, why should we believe you now? Or aren’t we better off believing all of those vows to raise our gas prices to Europe’s level, etc.?
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The biggest lie in the presser by far?
"We can't drill our way out of this problem……"
"We only have 2% of the world's oil reserves"
Bullcrap…….
"According to a June 2008 article in Kiplinger Magazine, the United States has enough oil reserves to power the nation for upwards of three centuries. That's three hundred years, Mr. President. We are not running out of oil reserves — it's just that those oil reserves have been declared off-limits due to decades of environmental lobbying of our politicians, especially those on the Left. This lobbying has driven the likes of BP and others out deep into the Gulf of Mexico to extract the nation's needed oil."
"Yes, the president is correct when he calls for the need to use more alternative energy sources. Some of these may, in the long-term, actually be more efficient than the use of oil and be more readily accessible. However, until then, we would be wise to tap our God-given resources in the safest of areas first before we go drilling more than a mile beneath the ocean for the same fuel that is available on dry land."
"Note the following statement from the article:
… untapped reserves are estimated at about 2.3 trillion barrels, nearly three times more than the reserves held by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties (OPEC) and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand-at today's levels-for auto, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil."
Think about that. The nations that currently hold us hostage by their massive oil production actually have far fewer reserves than our own nation. Put another way, some of the very nations on which we are dependent for oil are also the same nations that help to sponsor worldwide terrorism. Were we to extract our own oil, it would make our nation and the world a safer place. But isn't a spotted owl more important than the safety of the world?"
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_presid...
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Has there ever been a time when the Left wasn't lying? If they aren't lying to the public they're lying to themselves. It's a constant state of being for them.
High oil and gas prices, high electricity charges, tank the economy even lower than it was when he took office……all just part of the Obama agenda. Anti American to the end.
If his lips are moving he is lying.
Libtards only lie once…from the time they first learn to speak till the day coins are placed on their eyes.
Crippling American transportation has been a goal of the Left for a long time. When I was college freshman in 1960 my buddy Dave used to initiate traffic jams by stopping in the middle of the street for no reason. He was trying to hasten the day when people would get out of their cars – make them suffer now for their eventual good.
When I was a graduate student in the seventies in Urban Planning all my fellow students wanted to raise gas taxes and prices so as to force the public into public transportation.
Obama is part of that movement. He wants fewer cars on the road. Toward that end he has nationalized car makers and restricted domestic oil drilling and refining.
Old time Democrats felt US unemployment as the ultimate measure of public misery and suffering. Obama is at best indifferent but seems to actually welcome societal pain because he he thinks it will be good for us.
He reminds me of Dave.
Baracky's lips were moving….so we know it's more bullsh*t and lies!
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9097/jokermig….
You know you have seen change, when the Feed the Children organization is running ads to feed American children. We will have change WE can believe in soon!
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." George Washington
Only in the "Obama in Wonderland" world can the economy expand while the supply and search for new energy, goes DOWN.
An honest media would go a long way toward realistic information and informed voters.
Don't believe the lies…we have enough energy reasources in this country to fire our economic engine unabated for multiple centruies……
It is painfully obvious to all but the most casual observer, by far the largest battle for the past four decades has been the vast left wing conspiracy to crash us by starving our economy of its lifeblood, energy…. When was the time a new nuclear plant was brought online? What happened MR. PICKENS, we're all still waiting for the natural gas explosion you promised us, did they get to you too?
Enough of this Green energy hoax, what I want, and what my dying Country needs….. is for her leading politicians, her leading business folks, and her leaders in the academic community to grow some phucking stones and face this progressive RED nemesis head on.
If you people who can save us don't do something, than consider yourselves part of the problem….
http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecas...
obama wants high energy costs. He stated this while campaigning. He wants it to help cost justify "green energy" sources, AND he wants to drive more people to support more government policies and programs thus growing the welfare state and his devil-cRAT power base.
He's evil and stupid
Bad combo…….
At least obama kept ONE of his campaign promises.
FVK the EPA…
DRILL BABY DRILL!!!
Nuff said!
Gasoline is too DAMN high……………
What's up with that 0BAMA?
Nice photo of the joker JP
or a bait fish.
Exactly….
As long as gas prices are over $3.00 per gallon…………Barack Obama will remain on the "chopping block" as a one term President and even Larry the Cable Guy could beat him! Case closed!
"Mr Pickens" is a self promoting ASS, and in it only for the temporary boost to the market he can
cash-in on with his snake-oil salesman type appearances. He loves the notoriety and hearing/seeing
himself on TV with the various biz anchors.
IMO, a CHARLATAN…
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Nice one ed357.
Thank you. My hobby is graphics.
DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!
the BIG LIE.
by Steve McCann (Full article at americanthinker dot com)
Yet the United States is sitting on the world's largest untapped oil reserve. A natural resource that would not only mitigate the over $400 Billion sent overseas to other countries but could create untold millions of jobs and put the country on a sound financial footing.
The untapped reserves are estimated up to 2.3 Trillion barrels, nearly three times the reserves held by the OPEC countries and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand, at today's levels — for auto, truck, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil.
The US could become the single largest exporter of oil and oil related products in the world, thus potentially eliminating its trade deficit, and increasing the national standard of living as well as making a massive dent in the national debt.
Here is a look at some of the largest untapped reserves:
(continued):
The Bakken Fields in North and South Dakota. New drilling and oil recovery technology is making the capture of this oil feasible and some development is now underway. It is estimated that there is at least 200 Billion barrels of oil in this region. At a price of $100 per barrel the value of this find is $20 Trillion.
The Outer Continental shelf. It is estimated that around 90 billion barrels of oil sit beneath the ocean bed 50 to 100 miles off the shore of the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. The value: $9 Trillion.
The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. About 10 billion barrels are locked up here with a current value of $1 Trillion.
Tar Sands: Around 75 Billion barrels of oil could come from these areas which are similar to the Canadian tar sand fields and which now produce about 2 million barrels per day. The value: $7.5 Trillion
(continued):
Oil Shale. This is the most massive area of potential oil production in the world with an estimated 1.5 Trillion barrel potential. The technology necessary to extract this oil is now in place and being operated on a pilot project basis. The value of this resource: $150 Trillion
There also the very real potential that further finds will be discovered as technology continues to improve.
In total the value of the potential oil reserves of the United States listed above exceeds $187 Trillion. The current national debt is $14.2 Trillion or less than 8%.
Despite the protestation of President Obama and the environmentalists the world and particularly the United States is not running out of oil. Their foolish tilting at windmills and solar will never produce energy sufficient to operate a $14Trillion and hopefully growing economy. It will be decades if not the rest of the 21st Century before any meaningful substitute for fossil fuels will be developed and additional time and investment will then be necessary to distribute the product.
DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!
the BIG LIE.
by Steve McCann (Full article at americanthinker dot com)
Yet the United States is sitting on the world's largest untapped oil reserve. A natural resource that would not only mitigate the over $400 Billion sent overseas to other countries but could create untold millions of jobs and put the country on a sound financial footing.
The untapped reserves are estimated up to 2.3 Trillion barrels, nearly three times the reserves held by the OPEC countries and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand, at today's levels — for auto, truck, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil.
The US could become the single largest exporter of oil and oil related products in the world, thus potentially eliminating its trade deficit, and increasing the national standard of living as well as making a massive dent in the national debt.
Here is a look at some of the largest untapped reserves:
(continued):
The Bakken Fields in North and South Dakota. New drilling and oil recovery technology is making the capture of this oil feasible and some development is now underway. It is estimated that there is at least 200 Billion barrels of oil in this region. At a price of $100 per barrel the value of this find is $20 Trillion.
The Outer Continental shelf. It is estimated that around 90 billion barrels of oil sit beneath the ocean bed 50 to 100 miles off the shore of the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. The value: $9 Trillion.
The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. About 10 billion barrels are locked up here with a current value of $1 Trillion.
(continued):
There also the very real potential that further finds will be discovered as technology continues to improve.
In total the value of the potential oil reserves of the United States listed above exceeds $187 Trillion. The current national debt is $14.2 Trillion or less than 8%.
Despite the protestation of President Obama and the environmentalists the world and particularly the United States is not running out of oil. Their foolish tilting at windmills and solar will never produce energy sufficient to operate a $14Trillion and hopefully growing economy. It will be decades if not the rest of the 21st Century before any meaningful substitute for fossil fuels will be developed and additional time and investment will then be necessary to distribute the product.
Oil and natural gas are renewable energy resources, and we should be exploiting them until we can find cost effective, alternate energy sources. Wait a minute. We already have a reliable alternate energy resources – nuclear energy and clean coal.
BTW, wind mills and solar stuff would have to come from China. Also, be reminded solar and wind generators do not work well during cold, icy, snowy weather or on non windy, overcast days. Kinda like the Volt in really cold weather.
Obama's and Socialist Dems goals are the same. To weaken and destroy our America to install Marxism/Socialism. This is Sabotage. Otherwise known as Treason. Start the Trials. This man is out to destroy America. period. Our tolerance of this is going to be our downfall.
Does this make any sense to anyone?
-Team Obama does not allow US to drill to develop our natural resources in Ak and the Gulf.
- They spent U.S. broke, 3 Trillion in 2 years! and refuse to account for it. Did it go for kickbacks? To the 11 Latin Countries who helped Obama & Holder sue Arizona?
- Unions are sucking US dry. Thank God for Gov Walker! and Kasich!
- Obama Pelosi & Reid passed the mose illegal Bill in American history agaist the screaming protests of hundreds of Millions of Americans.
-They have allowed the Islamists to go unchecked and we've had many attempted bombings
-They deliberately leave the So Borders open to Foreign Invasion. THIS IS OBVIOUS SABOTAGE of America, otherwise known as Treason. Start the Trials now!
The Gas is too damn high…
And that's not counting "hard methane(methane ice) which abounds off shore on the east coast.
And the jobs and industry which would be opening up in the private sector.
Give me a minute…………………Still searching………………Nope. The left is built on lies.
Supplies are at an 8-year high. The problem is that prices have become unmoored from the fundamentals. The solution is simple and elegant: the CFTC should impose position limits to prevent speculation from needlessly driving up the price.
After the depression laws were passed to prevent speculation on commodities markets. This kept prices wedded to real supply and demand. But in the early 90s, a number of wall st firms got exemptions and were allowed to speculate. By 2010 there were 350 billion dollars in the commodities markets. This is insane.
Drill baby drill?? No. Re-regulate. It worked before and it can work again. Right wingers have been brainwashed by corporate interests to think that regulation = big government = tyranny. What a joke. Deregulation is strangling the economy and rightwingers are saying "more! more!"
The reason Obama wont force the CFTC to do what is needed is that Goldman Sachs is his number one contributor. Obama wants high energy prices? Oh yeah, that'll REALLY help him get elected. That is mind-numbingly stupid.
It's not complicated. Deregulation is good for big corporations and bad for people.
Andy, why not a "Big Corporations.org"? Or would that piss off your benefactors.
Gimme a break. This place is a pathetic joke.
Even once deceased, they continue to lie through the use of their votes being cast at election time.
Excellent photo of the clown in the witless house.
Obama's and Socialist Democrats Goals are pretty much the same and are treasonous and the Trials should start now!
1- Weaken and destroy America by any means possible to install Marxism and Socialism
2- Prevent oil independence from the Middle East. That might spoil their kickback system
3- Spend US into bankruptcy. Team Obama spent 3 Trillion dollars in 2 years w no accountability. Who got all of that money? ObamaCare. Foreign Dictators, the 11 Latin Countries that helped Obama & Holder sue Arizona?
4- Deliberately leave the So Borders open to Foreign Invaders from the Middle East, South America & Mexico to invade and destroy America.
5- Leave Islamists unchecked. Protect Islamists. Kickback system there too?
6- Let the Unions drain we Tax payers dry and funnel the money back to the Socialist Dems
7- Allow Team Obama to pass the most Illegal Bill in American History grabbing our freedoms and 1/7th of our Economy , to "Fundamentally Transform America" into Marxism/Socialism!
This is outright Treason. Start the Trials!
Bedtime for Bonzo staring Ronald Reagan and BHO.
Then why do you keep reading and posting here? Hmmm? Could it be because nobody ELSE will cover this? Hmmm? If you don't like it here, please don't come here. The world will be a better place, that's for sure.
It's like the difference between watching Jenna Lee, Shepard Smith, and Shannon Bream. NO difference!
I avoid them all.
It's hard for me to comment on stuff like this. I just read what everybody who does understand it, says. But, I am so sick of this puss telling us what we CAN'T do. What kind of American leader is that!? In our neck of the woods……….Them's Fightin' Words!
LOL, yep Rick, the faker-in-chief is an ignorant basket case.
I guess you missed the part when Obama stated that, "gas prices will necessarily sky-rocket". You are the pathetic joke. ALL Liberals are jokes. It’s hard to believe they can tie their shoes without a Pell grant, a Porkulus-funded study and an SEIU rent-a-mob. So get lost.
Obama’s Presser and Gas Prices: Which Time Were the Left Lying?
Every time their lips were moving!
Drill and build and/or expand the refineries! We haven't built a new refinery in well over 2 decades!
Actually, Barry said "under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"
But he's doing a damn fine job of getting gas prices to skyrocket, too.
Yes, you're right. My bad. It's hard to keep up with all this stuff and I've grown too lazy to hit the 'search' function. Thanks for the correction.
Damn beat me to it Rick! I was thinking the same thing.
It's ALL just superfluous GAB anyway sis, that's why I have such a bad attitude.
Too much talk, not enough action.
Time for some TEA TALK to the White House about their energy policies IMO.
Why do we sit by and let the damn UNION thugs in WI have all the "fun"?
We should be marching on DC to force CHANGE that would run these energy prices down.
; )
Just talked to my cuz who is a Senior VP for an oil co in Midland Tx Monday. He says this new fracking
method has the ''oil patch'' in an unbelievable boom. He's been in it for 26 years with the same co. They
are doubling their drilling budget every year for the foreseeable future, yet they are not expanding quickly
enough. He is amazed.
.
Do you bore yourself?
Dear LH,
Supply and Demand: Please forward this to Rep. Waxman:
Supplies are currently High, due to the global recession;
Demand is INCREASING FASTER than Supply, leading to price increases
exacerbated by instability in oil producing countries. ( Libya, for example. )
To reduce the price of oil, we need to increase SUPPLY faster than DEMAND.
The horrible reality of today is that the earthquake in Japan will cause a
reduction in Demand in that unfortunate country, leading to lower prices.
Lets not hope for another economic recession or natural disaster. Wouldn't
it be better to simply produce more energy, and the jobs people need?
Sincerely,
John Lepant Brighton CO
Yes, the US could become the single largest oil exporter but why sell the oil out of in country?
The longer we keep it the better off we would be off in the long run
Too bad I wasn't driving thru one of Daves intersections.
Thump thump! Sorry Dave…
Let's take this to the extreme. If Obama made gas free to everyone, who would drill for oil & refine it to gasoline? No one, correct? [no profit/incentive to produce]
Therefore, free gas = no gas.
Now substitute a Doctors or Nurses services for the term gas.
Best answer = let people be free to pick & choose who they want to receive goods & services from.
I don't listen to BHO anymore, my ears have more important sound waves to intercept.
He is part of the new tech and electricity movement. Known as GE, Westinghouse, Microsoft etc..Why do you think the MSM (owned by Westinghouse and GE) is so Obama? It is electricty VS Oil. It is HoLLyweird/ Silicon Valley VS TEXAS. They are Rent Seekers
DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!
the BIG LIE.
by Steve McCann (Full article at americanthinker dot com)
Yet the United States is sitting on the world's largest untapped oil reserve. A natural resource that would not only mitigate the over $400 Billion sent overseas to other countries but could create untold millions of jobs and put the country on a sound financial footing.
The untapped reserves are estimated up to 2.3 Trillion barrels, nearly three times the reserves held by the OPEC countries and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand, at today's levels — for auto, truck, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil.
The US could become the single largest exporter of oil and oil related products in the world, thus potentially eliminating its trade deficit, and increasing the national standard of living as well as making a massive dent in the national debt.
Here is a look at some of the largest untapped reserves:
The Bakken Fields in North and South Dakota. New drilling and oil recovery technology is making the capture of this oil feasible and some development is now underway. It is estimated that there is at least 200 Billion barrels of oil in this region. At a price of $100 per barrel the value of this find is $20 Trillion.
The Outer Continental shelf. It is estimated that around 90 billion barrels of oil sit beneath the ocean bed 50 to 100 miles off the shore of the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. The value: $9 Trillion.
The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. About 10 billion barrels are locked up here with a current value of $1 Trillion.
Tar Sands: Around 75 Billion barrels of oil could come from these areas which are similar to the Canadian tar sand fields and which now produce about 2 million barrels per day. The value: $7.5 Trillion
Oil Shale. This is the most massive area of potential oil production in the world with an estimated 1.5 Trillion barrel potential. The technology necessary to extract this oil is now in place and being operated on a pilot project basis. The value of this resource: $150 Trillion
There also the very real potential that further finds will be discovered as technology continues to improve.
In total the value of the potential oil reserves of the United States listed above exceeds $187 Trillion. The current national debt is $14.2 Trillion or less than 8%.
Despite the protestation of President Obama and the environmentalists the world and particularly the United States is not running out of oil. Their foolish tilting at windmills and solar will never produce energy sufficient to operate a $14Trillion and hopefully growing economy. It will be decades if not the rest of the 21st Century before any meaningful substitute for fossil fuels will be developed and additional time and investment will then be necessary to distribute the product.
Just say'n.
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