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Obama: Calls for more drilling are a 'bumper sticker', not an energy plan
Yahoo Finance ^ | 02/23/2012 | Jim Kuhnhenn

Posted on 02/23/2012 1:38:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind

President Barack Obama on Thursday assailed Republicans for what he described as a flawed and dishonest strategy for reducing gas prices, predicting his rivals would offer nothing but more drilling and political promises of $2-a-gallon gas. Said the president: "The American people aren't stupid."

"That's not a plan, especially since we're already drilling. That's a bumper sticker," Obama said in a stop at the University of Miami. "It's not a strategy to solve our energy challenge. That's a strategy to get politicians through an election. You know there are no quick fixes to this problem."

Obama spoke as gas has reached the highest price at the pump ever for this time of year: an average of $3.58 per gallon. White House advisers see it as a cyclical occurrence but knew Obama had to address the topic, one of deep concern to consumers and growing fodder for Republicans seeking to unseat Obama.

Obama said gas prices were "like a tax straight out of their paychecks." He promoted an energy agenda of oil, gas, wind, solar, nuclear and biofuel energy. And he took aim at Republicans.

"You can bet that since it's an election year, they're already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas. I'll save you the suspense: Step one is to drill, step two is to drill, and step three is to keep drilling. ... We've heard the same thing for thirty years. Well, the American people aren't stupid."

Obama insisted there are no short-term solutions to high gas prices, and that anyone suggesting otherwise was not being honest. Still, he sought to offer something to anxious voters by saying he had ordered his administration to search for every possible area to help consumers in the coming months.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


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1 posted on 02/23/2012 1:38:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This is going to be great. $5 dollar gas is well worth it to get obama out of office.


2 posted on 02/23/2012 1:44:42 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: SeekAndFind

And “hope and change” was a plan you fruity, skinny little muslim fop?


3 posted on 02/23/2012 1:45:57 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, Barry, that whole “supply and demand” thing is soooo over-rated.


4 posted on 02/23/2012 1:46:09 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Its more of a plan than anything this idiot has come up with in four years.

His “plan” invovles helping his Judenrat buddy Soros make a fortune in Brazil.

Lying bastard.


5 posted on 02/23/2012 1:46:37 PM PST by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would run ads in Florida tomorrow detailing every cut Obama’s EPA made to the energy industry in his three years in office.

Then I would cut to Pelosi and Reid blasting Bush for the high fuel costs.


6 posted on 02/23/2012 1:46:39 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Most Conservative in the Primary, the Republican Nominee in the General.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Words fail me.

This pablum comes from the first bumper sticker president.


7 posted on 02/23/2012 1:46:55 PM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lots of bumper stickers out there about barry. Such as, “Does this ass make my truck look big?”.


8 posted on 02/23/2012 1:47:28 PM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope the Republicans have a field day on this one. Obama has NO energy plan - except his “green energy” wet dream. Drilling for more oil sure beats doing nothing.


9 posted on 02/23/2012 1:48:32 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is an energy plan that FITS on a bumper sticker.

Just because a simple concept can be explained simply doesn’t mean it is not valid.

Oh yeah, one other thing.....

“DRILL BABY DRILL!”


10 posted on 02/23/2012 1:48:41 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: atc23

Isn’t he the guy who promised to make energy prices “skyrocket”?


11 posted on 02/23/2012 1:48:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now what the heck would someone like Obama know about an energy plan?


12 posted on 02/23/2012 1:50:31 PM PST by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Hope is not a plan!
Change is not a goal!
Barak Hussain Obama Jr. is not a leader!
13 posted on 02/23/2012 1:52:03 PM PST by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
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To: SeekAndFind
"....Well, the American people aren't stupid."

The ones who elected you sure are.

14 posted on 02/23/2012 1:52:36 PM PST by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: BenLurkin

Indeed. Without skyrocketing conventional energy prices at the consumer level, the green energy / carbon credit / cap and trade scam is impossible.


15 posted on 02/23/2012 1:53:14 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"That's not a plan, especially since we're already drilling. That's a bumper sticker,"

Since all of your grand schemes, wind, solar, ethanol, have failed spectacularly I have one question for you Mr. Obama,
"So what we 'spose to do now moron?"


16 posted on 02/23/2012 1:55:46 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (Brass, copper, lead. The new precious metals.)
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To: GlockThe Vote

>>This is going to be great. $5 dollar gas is well worth it to get obama out of office.

But he knows the fix is in. The GOP will throw the election as soon as they destroy the last conservative. The Just-Us Dept will ignore voter fraud. Obama will make a vague promise to “help the middle class” with rising fuel prices and the minorities and media will rally around his red banner.


17 posted on 02/23/2012 1:57:54 PM PST by Bryanw92 (The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"That's not a plan, especially since we're already drilling."

And my brother-in-law, who puts in one eight-hour shift per week as a bartender, is already working.

18 posted on 02/23/2012 1:58:04 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (How bad would an Obama II administration be, without the constraints of re-election?)
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To: SeekAndFind
"The American people aren't stupid." "

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The ones that put him in the White House are stupid as HELL!

19 posted on 02/23/2012 2:00:09 PM PST by Realman30 ("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

These sky-high gasoline prices are no accident or coincidence. You voted for them when you voted for Obama:

You remember that quip Obama gave us that under his policies, energy prices “would necessarily skyrocket“?

Remember that Obama appointed an energy secretary named Steven Chu who said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe”??? With gasoline prices in Europe consistently hovering between $7 and $10 a gallon??? Steven Chu said that in explaining the Obama policy of “progressively” making gasoline more and more expensive in order to force Americans to turn to alternative energy sources.
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/thanks-for-necessarily-skyrocketing-gasoline-prices-obama-gas-prices-expected-to-rise-another-60-cents-a-gallon-by-may/


20 posted on 02/23/2012 2:00:30 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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