Note to Newt - pResident Fail can’t hear you - he’s out playing golf.
Obama said years ago that gas prices must rise. It’s not only his fault. It is his plan.
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/
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.”
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.
Tell him, Mr. Speaker.
We need Newt as CIC.
I blame BO.
“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.
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.
Basically, it's our tough luck.
Then I hear Tom Sullivan say that the increase in gas prices since Obama took office amount to approximately $200 billion dollars.
That's $200 billion stripped away from other elements in the US economy, and now spent by people simply buying gas for their cars.
I guess when Obama says there's no silver bullet, he means the wooden stake in our hearts will have to suffice.
“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.” — Newt Gingrich
But if the American people think Obama hasn’t done everything possible to buffer oil shocks, there’s reason: He hasn’t.
The administration on Tuesday blamed last month’s shelving of the Keystone XL pipeline on “political” acts by Republicans in Congress. In fact, Obama ditched Keystone — which would have brought Canadian crude oil to Gulf Coast refineries — to keep his greenie base happy.
And the pipeline is but one of many Team Obama decisions that have left America’s oil supply more vulnerable to the vagaries of world events.
* Under Obama, the American Petroleum Institute notes, leases on federal lands in the West are down 44 percent, while permits and new well drilling are both down 39 percent, compared to 2007.
* In the wake of the BP oil spill, Obama shut down most Gulf of Mexico drilling; there’s been a 57 percent drop in monthly deepwater permits over the last three years, according to the Greater New Orleans’ Gulf Permit Index.
* The EPA continues to block drilling off the coast of Alaska — where an estimated 27 billion barrels are waiting to be tapped.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/bam_gas_price_plan_B1bfwSlY9X99J1gwZYctGM
And stop this “pure social CONservative” garbage immediately! This country is on the ragged edge of being lost, with only one chance left to fix itself.
Right now, Birth control, abortion, women's role in combat, etc,,, is not only stupid, it is all just a smoke screen to disguise the incompetence and inept abilities of a Big Government, insider politician who is every bit as unqualified to fix this mess as Romney is.
The real man for this job is being allowed to slip through our fingers, and hardly anyone seems concerned over what they are allowing to happen.
GO NEWT! GO!
Has anyone heard that the Sierra Club has joined with Chesapeake Energy to promote the use of natural gas instead of coal. I think that Chesapeake paid them $26 million for the deal.
That’s on the East Coast, though, The Sierra Club and the other NGOs have struck a different deal in WA State. They have agreed to allow the coal to be shipped to China through a gigantic coal terminal in Whatcom County, as long as the NGOs get to control the environmental mitigation funds, all of them, and guess who gets to pay those mitigation funds??? We do, the tax payers, not Goldman Sachs, who owns the terminal, not Warren Buffet who owns the RR, not Peabody Coal, who owns the coal, WE , the TAXPAYERS will be paying for the privilege to of a horrible, dirty coal terminal, and the Sierra Club is sitting back and letting this one happen.