Posted on 04/26/2011 7:52:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on politics and pocket books, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the global economy.
"We are in a lot of conversations with the major oil producers like Saudi Arabia to let them know that it's not going to be good for them if our economy is hobbled because of high oil prices," Obama told a Detroit TV station.
His remarks signaled a broad new appeal in the face of skyrocketing gasoline prices in the United States and they came as he reiterated a call for Congress to repeal oil industry tax breaks.
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Obama is an idiot.
Well, he does have experience boosting.. and bowing..
He is beyond stupid.
Thanks to newer types of exploration and extraction, the US has vast quantities of oil/gas. The problem is the political witch hunt DC has against the industry.
Vast areas of US territory are off limits.
With the EPA putting a gazillion roadblocks in the way, oil companies can forget drilling until a republican is in the WH.
Obama is far beyond the idiot stage. His acts are willfull. He intends harm to our country. He cannot see that we have to utilize our own resources to get us out of this eternal oil blackmail. He is a contemptable fool. He is ignorant for a supposedly educated man. A Harvard graduate. What a friggin joke.
I hear ya..
He has a clinched fist whopping ‘Big Oil’ upside the head and his other hand reaching out for donations from their execs and corporations.. meanwhile we sit on hugh reserves at home..
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has been cozying up to China and Russia...
I heard a woman caller from a Northern State on Coast to Coast AM say that she has seen huge tankers taking oil out of the U.S. into Canada. Anyone know anything about that?
There’s pleny of oil...if you can pay. But nobody wants inflated fresh-printed ObamaDollars.
The dollar era is now over, and we are not even invited to BRIC etc. The reserve currency status is nearly dead, and we’ll have to pay a lot more for everything, since we’re just one more bidder in the market.
People have little idea what this means. It will be like the precipitous decline of Great Britain from the fifties until Thatcher. Shrinking military, shrinking influence. That’s us now.
Why is he begging the Saudis? He should be begging Alaska, Texas, and the Gulf states to drill, baby, drill!
Obama is lying - again. You know how you can tell? His lips are moving.
You can’t fix stupid, you can only vote it out of office. So now Barry is jack-ass-jaw-boning all producers except American producers....ugh!
Alaska, Texas and the Gulf States should be withdrawing from the Union....
It’s clearly sabotage. Like somebody being given the keys to the racecar, and he’s intentionally burning out the clutch, clashing the gears, driving over nails, hitting things.
It must be a real hoot among the hard corps left who understand this. Bill Ayers’ sock puppet is running the United States. Imagine.
I would like Obama to send me a check for $1 billion.
Yes, his much vaunted intellect is the biggest bs story ever foisted on America.
The "Saudi" terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 owe TEN TRILLION DOLLARS TO THE USA in reparations, and subsidized oil at the same price those useless camel jockeys pay at the pump.
Or Else.
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