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Newt Gingrich Slams President Obama’s “Excuses” On Energy
newt.org ^ | February 23, 2012 | Newt Gingrich

Posted on 02/23/2012 4:47:41 PM PST by Marguerite

Kennewick, WA – Newt Gingrich issued the following response to President Obama’s speech on energy at the University of Miami.

“Instead of offering a real plan to lower the cost of gasoline, President Obama offered excuses and fantasies.”

“Blaming instability in the Middle East for high gas prices is not leadership. Neither is promising magic future technologies that won’t satisfy today’s energy needs. The fact is that President Obama could today, with a stroke of his pen, begin the process of bringing online 2.4 million new barrels of oil per day to US supplies – more than is transported through the Straits of Hormuz from the Middle East – simply by authorizing the construction of the Keystone Pipeline, re-opening the Gulf of Mexico, and permitting exploration and production in the Chukchi Sea and National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska.”

“This would completely wipe out our dependence on the Persian Gulf, dramatically increase our energy security and significantly reduce prices at the pump.”


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1 posted on 02/23/2012 4:47:47 PM PST by Marguerite
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To: Marguerite

Note to Newt - pResident Fail can’t hear you - he’s out playing golf.


2 posted on 02/23/2012 4:50:30 PM PST by ImProudToBeAnAmerican (Who is John Galt?)
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To: onyx; TitansAFC; b9; Gator113; Marcella; katiedidit1; annieokie; true believer forever; ...

Newt Gingrich “Fireplace Chat Style” Speech on American Energy

http://youtu.be/ZvawJfhU1bk


3 posted on 02/23/2012 4:50:39 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: onyx; TitansAFC; b9; Gator113; Marcella; katiedidit1; annieokie; true believer forever; ...

Newt Gingrich “Fireplace Chat Style” Speech on American Energy

http://youtu.be/ZvawJfhU1bk


4 posted on 02/23/2012 4:50:58 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Marguerite

Obama said years ago that gas prices must rise. It’s not only his fault. It is his plan.


5 posted on 02/23/2012 4:51:36 PM PST by petitfour
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To: Marguerite

Go NEWT! He needs to keep this up everywhere he goes and never let up. Take a gander at the latest RNC ad out about gas prices and Obama:

http://www.gop.com/index.php/news/comments/rnc_launches_web_ad_obamas_got_america_singin_the_blues/


6 posted on 02/23/2012 4:51:36 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather ("We need to teach the establishment a lesson!" Newt Gingrich CPAC 2-10-2012)
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Charles Krauthammer making fun of Obama’s suggestion that the U.S. must turn to algae for energy production:

“We’re dependent on oil from unfriendlies. And he says, as we heard, drilling for oil to relieve our dependency is not a solution, it’s not a plan. He said we have to go to clean energy. He talks about something really revolutionary today. Algae. A $14 million grant for the development of algae. It’s not oil. His solution is algae. And because we know that the Secretary of Energy is physicist that won the Nobel Prize, the president knowing this stuff said that one of the reasons we should do this is because we can grow algae here in the United States.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/02/23/krauthammer_on_obamas_algae_policy_i_think_hes_on_to_something.html


7 posted on 02/23/2012 4:54:01 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Marguerite
newtist colony, newtist colony
8 posted on 02/23/2012 4:55:02 PM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: Marguerite
Thank you very much!!!

GO NEWT!!!
9 posted on 02/23/2012 5:01:00 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Marguerite
What I don't understand is: how do we buy oil from opec? Isn't it the oil companies that buy from opec ?

Even if we drill everything (and we should) how does that stop the oil companies from buying from opec ?

aren't we really dependent on the oil companies ?

sorry if the question sounds goofy, but I just don't know enough about it.

10 posted on 02/23/2012 5:01:16 PM PST by stylin19a (time to Obamanos)
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To: Marguerite

Krauthammer was so dry. His humor really made BO look rediculous.

Wish Newt would point out that the VOLT uses electricity. Electricity is a secondary energy. One must first use coal, hydro or another source. There are other fuels that would better fit into our society.


11 posted on 02/23/2012 5:02:41 PM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God and Sarah, the Gipper and Newt will be standing next to you.)
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To: Marguerite

Tell him, Mr. Speaker.

We need Newt as CIC.


12 posted on 02/23/2012 5:02:48 PM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt and would love to see political dead bodies on the floor.)
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To: Christie at the beach
Newt Gingrich is the only candidate of substance and the only one with real plans!

GO NEWT!
13 posted on 02/23/2012 5:04:49 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: FrankR
PREFECT ©

14 posted on 02/23/2012 5:05:36 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
exactly...respond now to EVERY speech or lie/comment nobama makes here on out...do it immediately....soon we will all see who is the most capable at staring down the current POS in the WH...tell the truth!
15 posted on 02/23/2012 5:05:39 PM PST by ldish (Looking forward to Independence Day)
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To: Marguerite

I blame BO.


16 posted on 02/23/2012 5:05:52 PM PST by Leep (Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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To: Marguerite

“This would completely wipe out our dependence on the Persian Gulf, dramatically increase our energy security and significantly reduce prices at the pump.”

Too practical, too logical - will never happen while Obama is in the White House.


17 posted on 02/23/2012 5:06:07 PM PST by SatinDoll (No Foreign Naionals as our President!)
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To: stylin19a
Even if we drill everything (and we should) how does that stop the oil companies from buying from opec ? aren't we really dependent on the oil companies ?

I could answer this, but first, I want to see where you are headed with this. Is there a point?

18 posted on 02/23/2012 5:07:53 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Marguerite

Don’t let up Newtie. I don’t care what the media and Romney have tried to do to you. You are the BEST man for the job right now. If you picked Palin as VP, I would pee down both legs.


19 posted on 02/23/2012 5:09:06 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican
Note to Newt - pResident Fail can’t hear you - he’s out playing golf.

Actually, Idi Obama is in Orlando, FL at a fundraiser hosted by an NBA miscreant and John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan law firm. Who just happened to hire former Gov. Charlie Crist who became a private citizen when the voters had enough of his shmoozing up to Obama.

20 posted on 02/23/2012 5:13:56 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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