Obama's Oil War

IBD Editorials ^ | January 5, 2011 | Staff

[Buckeye McFrog]

Just like the Bush Tax Cuts, this is going to back Obama into an ideological corner. His heartfelt enviro-extremism is going to at some point run up smack against the reality of rising energy prices that will choke off the recovery and doom his 2012 reelection bid.

I suppose we are about to find out whether he is at all interested in a second term.

[driftless2]

Make no mistake, the ultimate goal of leftists is to destroy the internal combustion engine. Their dream is a country with no gasoline-powered autos. Your bicycle or legs will suffice, because you will also be living in a rabbit hutch in a huge megalopolis. The bad thing for leftists like Obama is that most Democrats are not leftists. But hard leftists, like Obama, run the party. However, average Dems (at least the ones I know) do not like high gas prices any more than conservative Republicans. Sooner or later they will connect the dots, and they’ll realize that it wasn’t that nasty George Bush and his oil buddies who will have made driving a car a luxury.

[Vaduz]

Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the price of oil has rocketed 117%.Hell of a leader huh?.

[kitkat]

***The GOP congress needs to make a visit out to Washington state and be photographed showing the American people the new port built to ship US coal to China***

That’s incredible, SL. Is it commonly known? If so, I’ll write to my House Rep. and ask him to take it on. No sense writing to my Senators because they’re both Obomaites.

[silverleaf]

I doubt it is commonly known. Note the rich irony of liberals shutting down their own regional coal-fired electric plants, defending Australia building a US port to ship US coal to China to be burned with no environmental controls or scrubbing equipment .... it's only “fair” that China get a shot at polluting Mother Gaia

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/11/cowlitz_county_approves_permit.html

George Will mentions it in this article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122902899.html

[BigSkyDream]

I'm getting confused??

Is this Obama's term in office --- or Clinton's or GW Bush's 3rd term?

He has nothing but former Clinton staffers around him and President Bush's and then extended his tax cuts. lol

Remember all the "McBush" slurs back in '08