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To top it off, President Obama did what he does best during his little speech tonight; he lied to his fellow Americans to promote his costly agenda. Running out of places to drill, Mr. President? Oh really?
And Diogenes, since we all know how you detest dishonesty, here is your big opportunity to condemn Obama for his gross lie.
Read all about it from Gateway Pundit:
LiveBlogging the Obama Oil Spill Address & Cap-&-Tax Push
"Two vacations, a half dozen parties, and several rounds of golf later, Barack Obama finally addresses the nation on the BP oil spill.
Lie #1: We’re drilling in deepwater because we’re running out of places to drill.
Not True.
For decades, Democrats have blocked efforts to responsibly develop this nation’s energy resources, transforming vast areas of opportunity into 'The No Zone.'
Over the past 30 years:
Democrats have blocked the development of new sources of petroleum.
Democrats have blocked drilling in ANWR.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the coast of Florida.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the east coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the west coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast.
Democrats have blocked building oil refineries.
Democrats have blocked clean nuclear energy production.
Democrats have blocked clean coal production.
But, they’re funding projects in Brazil.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.'
This radical president is shameless.
He’s pushing for more regulations and his cap-&-tax energy policy that will cause energy costs to necessarily skyrocket."
Even the libs are disappointed in Obama's speech.
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I'd be happy to condemn Obama for his gross lie. Where was it?
Here's what he said:
"One of the lessons we've learned from this spill is that we need better regulations better safety standards, and better enforcement when it comes to offshore drilling. But a larger lesson is that no matter how much we improve our regulation of the industry, drilling for oil these days entails greater risk. After all, oil is a finite resource. We consume more than 20% of the world's oil, but have less than 2% of the world's oil reserves. And that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean - because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water."
And, ONCE AGAIN, you cite some unidentified rightwingnut blogger who says "That's a lie!" but offers NOTHING to back it up. But he does claim that Democrats, "for decades", have blocked drilling off the coast of Florida, the East and West Coasts, ANWR.
The GOP controlled both houses of Congress from at least 2000 until 2006... so how did Democrats, single-handedly, block drilling? And which President issued an executive order ending new offshore drilling way back in 1990, after the Exxon Valdez spill? George H.W. Bush. I believe he was a Republican? A Republican considerably smarter than his doofus son, George W. Bush, who ended the moratorium because his oil bidness VP Big Dick told him to?
This isn't a political issue, or shouldn't be. This is a common-sense issue. If the oil industry cannot control spills, why on earth should they be allowed to drill CLOSER to our country's shores? So the spills can get to our beaches more quickly?
And who says that if drilling WAS allowed so close to our shores, that it would have produced major quantities of oil without any risk?
The single best part of Obama's speech get right to that point:
"For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered. For decades, we have talked and talked about the need to end America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels. And for decades, we have failed to act with the sense of urgency that this challenge requires. Time and again, the path forward has been blocked - not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor."
No lies there, Ms. MoreLies. Sorry!
I'll fault Obama for one thing in his speech: He didn't go far enough. He should have gotten more into specifics as to what he was going to do. My hunch is that he may have avoided doing that so as to not tip his hand in the poker game he's got going with Tony Hayward. So many rightwingnuts are saying "Awww, it was an ACCIDENT, you can't pick on BP!" that I'm afraid Obama may have held back so as to avoid that criticism. Screw it: righwingnuts are going to blast the President no matter what. (Right, Ms. MoreLies?) SO who cares what THEY say.
Do the right thing, Mr. President.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20
[Obama] is losing his appeal.
American's are waking up!
Au contraire, Diogenes. Running out of places to drill, indeed. You are sitting on oil shale in right there in Colorado.
"Among the areas the article mentions are the oil shale located underneath land in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. These lands are federally protected, but they alone could provide about two hundred years' worth of oil for the nation. Others mentioned include oil reserves located under Montana and some reserves located on protected lands in Texas, California, Utah, and Kentucky.
In fact, our own government has acknowledged the vast oil resources available to us. In an April 2008 study conducted by the United States Geological Survey, the group began its press release with the following: 'North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.'"
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_presidents_oil_reserves_li.html
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
"A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) dated October 2009 proves Obama is lying. The report shows the amount of recoverable oil in the U.S. to be 167 billion barrels of oil, not the 21 billion figure pushed by the Democrats. If exploited that 167 billion barrels could replace America’s imports from OPEC countries for more than 75 years.
'That same report shows that America’s combined recoverable natural gas, oil, and coal supply is the largest on Earth. America’s recoverable resources are far larger than those of Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th), and Canada (6th) combined. Those estimates don’t include America’s immense oil shale deposits."
http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2010/06/16/that-stench-of-rotting-bull-is-just-obamas-oval-office-speech/#more-133058
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=01feb68b-ef57-4748-8f5c-d88c0e7d6bd5
We should be drilling much closer to shore. Then, if accidents occur, they aren't so difficult to fix.
We should also be drilling in Alaska. It's largely uninhabited. If an accident occurred, it wouldn't be so devastating to the local residents.
The GOP may have controlled Congress, but they never had 60 votes.
I accidentally cut off part of the American Thinker link. It is as follows:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_presidents_oil_reserves_li.html
Oil shale in Colorado? Oh, you mean the stuff buried right under protected federal park land? Yeah, what the hell, dig it all up. Ms. MoreLies' gas-guzzler needs to top off its tank.
And yeah, Alaska is a good idea. Not too many people, so who cares if they and their environment gets screwed up for decades by an oil spill. Of course, you DO realize that they're still experiencing after-effects from the Exxon Valdez spill back in 1989.
But here's the really interesting thing...and I have to thank you for this, Ms. MoreLies. You used (well,cut & pasted) a term that I had not heard before -- and I bet you hadn't, either. But I -- unlike you, apparently -- decided to do a little research, to see what it meant.
The term is "undiscovered, technically recoverable oil". And here's what I found:
"If you were to lay out a nomenclature line, at one end would be "proved (or proven) reserves" -- the stuff we are pretty sure is there and believe can be produced commercially. At the other end would be the undiscovered technically recoverable oil resource (UTRR) -- the stuff we think might be there and is probably recoverable but not necessarily economically viable to produce."
http://nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/oilglossary
So all those figures you cited refer to oil that MIGHT (or might not) be there, but it might not be economically viable to drill for it. Pretty valuable information, huh?
Figures lie and liars figure.
I wonder how much fossil fuel obama has consumed since taking office? He has no problem burning thousands and thousands of gallons of jet fuel just to go on a date with his wife or for a fundraiser for a fellow idiot. But we lower class folk must walk wherever we go and sit in the dark to save the planet. Being that you are a big environmantal kind of person, i must assume that you have no electricity, no car, no clothes and you grow your own food using nothing but a shovel. Because all this takes energy and as an upstanding liberal, you should not in good conscience use any energy. Wonder why al bore has his own jet? Doesn't he know he is emitting the dreaded carbon? The same carbon we all exhale? The same carbon plants need to live? How much is al bores utility bill? 20,000 sq ft mansion. Not very responsible!!!!!!
LMAO, Just a Dumbass! I'm not an environmentalist. But I do think that an indiscriminate "drill baby drill" mentality isn't probably the best thing for our nation as a whole.
Who said anything about anybody sitting in the dark and walking everywhere? Only an idiot would take it to that extreme.
Oh, wait... that's why you went there, isn't it?
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