Posted on 02/24/2012 12:55:16 PM PST by American Dream 246
President Obama doesn’t have an energy plan. He has an energy speech that he continues to give regardless of the facts or his obvious failures. He likes to take credit for actions initiated by the last administration (without telling you that he’s reversed or stymied many of those successes).
We should not be surprised by his detached attitude about America’s pain at the pump. He’s not interested in lowering the price of gas because exorbitantly high gas prices are one of his campaign promises. In September 2008, candidate Obama’s Energy Secretary in-waiting said: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” That’s one campaign promise they’re working hard to fulfill!
President Obama notes that instability in the Middle East causes short-term spikes in the price of oil. But that is precisely why we should take every opportunity to drill here and drill now to lessen our dependence on these dangerous foreign regimes. President Obama’s lack of action simply invites the next oil crisis. It’s as if the White House is purposefully making us more dependent on foreign countries – from running up an unsustainable debt that must be financed by foreign debtors, to constantly apologizing and walking on eggshells around dictators who control oil supplies.
When it comes to our energy security, the only thing holding us back is the lack of political will. We have the resources, the ingenuity, and the manpower. And we need the jobs! Any economic recovery will be hampered by these rising gas prices. And I guarantee the rising prices will only get worse and will halt job growth further.
We must never forget that energy development, job creation, and national security are inextricably linked. Access to affordable and secure energy is the key to economic growth, which is the key to job growth. Securing a stable domestic supply of energy will lead to a more peaceful and prosperous America – an America that’s not subject to the whims of dictators who can cut off energy supplies or shut down the Strait of Hormuz to exports passing through. President Obama repeatedly claims that there is no “silver bullet” to lower gas prices. But, in fact, we do have proof that the promise of future drilling does lead to immediate price relief as oil producers plan to expand their production.
So what are Obama’s solutions? As luck would have it, they coincide with subsidizing his friends and campaign donors. What a fortuitous coincidence in an election year! While you’re paying $5-a-gallon for gas, President Obama has been picking “winners” and “losers” in the free market. He’s decided that conventional resource development that produces the fuel we use to drive our cars and power our economy are “losers.” His “winners” are the bankrupt green energy companies that his campaign donors invest in. Unfortunately his real “losers” are the American public who are once again hit with massive gas prices (at least those who can’t afford luxury electric cars like the Obama-subsidized Volt that gets 40 miles per battery charge, or like the Obama-subsidized Tesla that turns into a “brick” when the battery completely discharges and then costs $40,000 to repair.)
What are the real solutions? Well, whether you support Newt in 2012 or not, he makes a lot of sense in this video, which is why President Obama targeted it for mockery yesterday. Newt is right that we need to “stop bowing and start drilling.” And not only can’t a gun rack fit in a Volt, but the government will take away our pick-up trucks when they pry the steering wheel “from our cold, dead hands.”
In this video, Newt explains some commonsense, pro-American solutions to the problems President Obama causes with his terrifyingly naïve assault on U.S. energy production.
With just the stroke of a pen, President Obama could lead us in the direction of real energy security and reduce our oil imports threatened by Iran’s threats to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and. Here are just a few commonsense measures we can do right now and most of them don’t require any new legislation or regulations:
Open Alaska to drilling. Billions and billions of U.S. crude (and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean natural gas) sit untapped up here in the far north, my friends. We have the TAPS pipeline and infrastructure; we invite the development! Open ANWR. Think of how much safer and secure we would be if we had done this decades ago.
Build the Keystone Pipeline. President Obama doesn’t understand we live in a land woven with untold miles of pipe to carry safe energy supplies to protect and prosper America. Common sense dictates we need another one now to secure our energy future. It is key. It is the Keystone. If we’re worried about instability in the Middle East, it makes no sense to shun safe and reliable oil from Canada. Obviously, China understands this, and we should too. Drill for natural gas. Natural gas is the future. It’s clean, it’s green, and we’ve got lots of it. Whether we use it to power natural-gas cars or to run natural-gas power plants that charge electric cars – or ideally for both – natural gas can act as a clean “bridge fuel” to a future when more renewable sources are available.
There are many more steps we need in order to establish a true energy plan to secure our future. But these three steps, plus increased resource development in the Lower 48 and reversing President Obama’s nonsensical, knee-jerk, anti-American energy shut down of off-shore developments would create hundreds of thousands of jobs as millions of barrels of oil every single day would flow under American control, and lessen our dependence on the Persian Gulf.
It’s time our country had a real energy plan that include a genuine all-of-the-above approach that doesn’t ignore conventional resource development. We need the jobs, we need the energy, and we need the security.
- Sarah Palin
I’m reading this and wondering how the left manages to get away with the slander that this woman is a nitwit.
Sarah has suddenly become active again on Facebook.
God, she dumped me and yet she just won’t go away...
...godamit woman love me or leave me alone!
;)
Great article by Sarah Palin!
Shadow president. What a shame she is not the real one. America needs her so bad.
Lord, how I wish her and Newt would join to make a team.
The country needs them both NOW.
Newt/Palin, let’s get it done and overwith.
Her family can give us Palin, we need her and Newt on a team.
They are helped with the PDS’ers on the right... which gives them pretty good cover for their lies.
Moderator, could that be in front page news? I don’t dare to do it because if I do and don’t like it then I cannot re-install the major keywords like elections, news etc. So please could you put that in front news so my main keywords won’t go away? Also could you PLEASE re-install the word Palin in the “Popular Keywords” - this is important and will save us a lot of time to read only Palin related posts. That was there since yesterday since years and suddenly today it’s not there anymore. I think Sarah is pretty much in the news everyday so she and deserve to have access to her posts fast. Thank you so much.
But Obama, the democrats and the EPA won't let us get to our own oil , our own resources and they won't let us even manufacture our own products. So we are dependent on Muslim countries for oil and on China for everything else .
http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/next-up-for-fracking-oil-fields-in-america/1213696
Palin/Newt is better.
The liberals believe the liberal mainstream media lies and many other people do also.
As she proceeds to detail the prodigious opportunities for us to drill our own energy while satisfying the desire for clean energy, I get the feeling a Rubicon has been crossed, up there in the Upper 49th. She's tanned, rested, and ready. . .
It’s absolutely ridiculous. She’s by far one of the smartest political figures on the scene today.
Sounds about right.
I still like that about her.
They hate her, like they hated and continue to loathe Jesus.
Not an parallel, but more of why would some latte-drinking, Che t-shirt wearing U. Michigan grad who just had her son or daughter yanked from her womb via a vacuum hate someone who has virtue, reason and patriotism and passion?
Because they hate themselves.
I just saw a show on CSI (re-run) about an oil and gas executive who kills to cover up fracking pollution.
Oh, these Commies are good.
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