Posted on 11/30/2018 1:43:19 PM PST by detective
"Suddenly America is like the biggest oil producer, the biggest gas producer,” said Barack Obama in an impromptu remark at Rice University on Tuesday. “That was me, people." After a minute of additional economic boasts, Obama instructed the audience, “Say ‘thank you.’”
Here was the essential Obama on display: smug, verbally maladroit, and shockingly dishonest. If America increased its energy production while Obama was in the White House, it was despite of his policies, not because of them. In a June 2010 speech after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama reminded America that “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.”
In scolding America for its dependence on cheap oil, Obama rolled out all the self-hating green clichés: we consume ten times more than we produce; we need to end our “century-long addiction to fossil fuels; oil is a finite resource.” Implicit in the speech was the idea that consuming oil was in itself an evil like, say, shooting heroin or watching Fox News. After listing some alternative approaches to energy production, Obama claimed to be open to new ideas “as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels.”
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One of the other things Obama continually bragged about was the waste of taxpayer money and payoffs in the Solyndra scam.
"Obama was still pumped from his visit to California a month earlier. “Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot,” Obama boasted in May 2010. “But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.”
The loan from U.S. Energy Department came to a cool $536 million. Captivated by his own vision for America, Obama made the prophetic comment that would haunt him until other, graver scandals buried this one, “The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra.” "
Obama is an egotist and a liar.
It is amazing the extent to which the media lie to support him.
The Kenyan from Indonesia tried everything he could to strangle energy production in the US while he was usurping the office of President.
Please clap
Please clap
‘say thank you’. the contempt Obama has for the people in this great country is beyond measure.
Obama instructed the audience, “Say ‘thank you.’”
They are Liberals, They all had the CLAP
Really? The same guy who virtually closed all offshore leasing, beefed up the EPA to go after new drilling, especially fracking, and then the bogus subsidies to his friends in the solar and wind energy businesses. Wow, how can someone who is that full of crap even stand up?
A legend in his own mind. Some judge should commit him for his own safety and of others.
I see a real conflict in the very near future....Live Free or Die.
We ought to be saying thank you to God, no matter what politicians figured and when. America isn’t worthy, yet by the power of the Lord, it is yet poised to power forward. And in this is a warning. Trump needs to know when to stand back and glorify the Lord himself, lest he lead a spiritual pratfall.
I see a real conflict in the very near future....Live Free or Die.
You are not the only one, sooner or later you know what will hit he fan.
He dih-ent build dat!
I seem to remember him saying a few years back, “We can’t drill our way to lower gas prices.”
What I need to say and want to say will get me banned.
I think the reason he claims credit in spite of his trying to stop America from becoming energy independent, is that he was incompetent. Therefore, thanks to his incompetence, we are now energy independent.
“Really? The same guy who virtually closed all offshore leasing,”
In 2015 Morgan City La, which is in the heart of the support area for the offshore petroleum industry in the Gulf of Mexico was a ghost town,
Gigantic fabrication facilities there were deserted. Companies were going under and bankruptcy auctions were common.
Barry Soetoro is a lying POS!
The phrase that comes to mind whenever Ophonybama speaks about ANYTHING is “He is as full of shit as a Thanksgiving Turkey!”
Headline: Obama takes credit for defeating the Nazis
...for inventing antibiotics
...for getting us to the moon
...for creation itself
His policies kept energy rates high enough that fracking became very viable and there was lots of land the Feds under him hadn’t been able ‘secure”....production went up despite his efforts to keep it down....IOW - he’s bragging about another of his failures that turned out good for us....
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