“There’s a Few Places We’re Not Drilling… The National Mall… At Your House” (Video)

Gateway Pundit ^ | March 14, 2012 | Jim Hoft

[Hojczyk]

So sad. Barack plays comedian and cracks jokes about gas prices. He told an audience today that there’s “a few places” we’re not drilling… the National Mall… at your house.” HapBlog reported:

Of course, like most everything Obama says, a quick Google search paints a totally different picture of the truth. Investor’s reported:

Obama has chosen almost always to limit production. He canceled leases on federal lands in Utah, suspended them in Montana, delayed them in Colorado and Utah, and canceled lease sales off the Virginia coast.

His administration also has been slow-walking permits in the Gulf of Mexico, approving far fewer while stretching out review times, according to the Greater New Orleans Gulf Permit Index. The Energy Dept. says Gulf oil output will be down 17% by the end of 2013, compared with the start of 2011. Swift Energy President Bruce Vincent is right to say Obama has “done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting.”

“The U.S. consumes more than a fifth of the world’s oil. But we only have 2% of the world’s oil reserves.”

And just two days ago Democrats blocked ANWR and the Keystone Pipeline.

If Obama really wanted laughs with his leftist audience he stick with the c-nt jokes.

[bunkerhill7]

Thus 4 dollars worth of silver quarters [90%] would buy 16 x 1.5= 24 gallons of gas wow.

[clearcarbon]

Except he is drilling at your house.
The tax hungry parasite is sucking
the life out of you every moment of the day.

[Dilbert San Diego]

“The U.S. consumes more than a fifth of the world’s oil. But we only have 2% of the world’s oil reserves.”

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Isn’t this an apples and oranges comparison? What does one have to do with the other?

We could be consuming a fifth of the world’s annual oil production right now, however, only a small fraction of the world’s total oil reserves are pumped each year.

And these are the known reserves, I assume. If we get into more exploration, we may find that we have more reserves than we think.

Can anybody help me out? What am I missing? How is it significant that we consume a fifth of the world’s oil production while having only 2% of known oil reserves? How are these two factoids from the president connnected? What conclusion are we supposed to draw? That we all need windmills and ocean wave plants and solar panels, because oil production will never amount to anything for our energy needs???

[HIDEK6]

there’s “a few places” we’re not drilling… the National Mall… at your house.”

Why drill where there's no oil.

What about the Gulf of Mexico?

[JewishRighter]

I know. Its just that I cannot spend so much time every day thinking of new ways to describe the depths of my contempt for him. It has just been one steady torrent of information about who he is and what he is trying to do to this country every day since he emerged on the national scene: he is a lying, phony, arrogant, vicious, hateful, petulant, hypocritical, pandering, deceptive, craven, brazen, backstabbing bastard and HE IS DESTROYING MY BELOVED COUNTRY, DAMMIT! Yes, that’s how I really feel, but I could spend all day doing it and I have to try to make a living and be a husband, father, son, brother, uncle and friend.