The road to Hell is full of crazy talk.
Lets list the areas off to oil and gas exploration and drilling. The only two I can accurately name are ANWR and the Great lakes directional drilling ban. Between just those two that’s literally thousands of square miles off limits to drilling.
We’re not talking about your sex life, Mr. President!
“How many fingers, Winston?”
The public so does not believe Obama, and his continued insistence with this narrative is making him look stupid. Most people understand that Obama is against carbon fuel in general and drilling in particular, and his attempt to now make himself out to be some oil man is just idiotic. I hope the Republicans continue to push the energy story including how estimates on U.S. oil reserves have been expanded dramatically through the new horizontal drilling technology. The only one who belongs to the flat earth society is our zero president who doesn’t get that the U.S. has more carbon fuel available including oil, gas and coal than the Middle East.
He didn’t say what they were drilling for.
I’ll leave that to your imaginations.
Obama: “do not tell me that we’re not drilling.”
How about I just tell you you’re an idiot, Obama.
Drilling who, exactly?
"They" discovered that the Washington Monument SANK due to greater earth movements than expected.
They'll probably be drilling on the Mall to pump concrete down there under the base to keep it in the air.
Oil companies are free to drill WHEREVER they like! The ONLY exception to this freedom is: Can’t drill if there is real oil below. Other than that, can drill ANYWHERE!
Truly, a superlative of liar is need to describe POSOTUS. I use the term "Barack sh!t."
Obama is just to cocky and I think he has something up his sleeve that he will pull on election day..
Don’t anyone hold your breath waiting for the media to challenge him to tell which areas are being drilled as a direct result of his policies vice in spite of his policies.
Gosh, he’s as funny as Bill Maher. I nearly laughed myself silly this morning when I was filling up the car. The man is totally out of touch with reality.
I heard this “speech” on Rush’s show yesterday.
Unreal. Everything is a joke, right? It’s all funny stuff. We’ll see how funny he thinks it is come NOV.
I wonder how narcissists handle national-level rejection?
I am looking forward to the day when this arrogant political THUG is given a thorough and humiliating defeat at the polls in particular and life in general. I pray every day for his defeat in November and that the Lord would replace Obama and his cronies with Godly people at every level of government.
Speaking of lies, I was watching CSI online last night because I missed the airing on Thursday. I was bombarded at every break with a commercial about how zero has decreased the reliance on foreign oil and was directed to some website entitled “The Truth about Drilling” or something like that.
I didn’t go to the website, but it’s obvious that the reason “dependence” on foreign oil is down is because people are driving less since the cost of gasoline has risen! Duh! And zero is bragging about it.
Obama's Simply Not Telling the Truth About Domestic Oil Drilling
by Roger Hedgecock
04/08/2011
Now Obama is posing as the driller-in-chief.
Stung by the savvy American consumer connecting the dots between gas price pain at the pump and Obama's repeated moratoria on oil drilling, the President did what he's done so many times. He told us his words speak louder than his actions.
In his March 30 energy speech, Obama said he supports more domestic oil drilling, and, under his leadership, domestic oil drilling is at an all-time high, but the U.S. only has 2% of the world's oil, and anyway it's the oil companies' fault because they are sitting on a zillion offshore leases that they refuse to drill.
Nonsense. All of it—a pure head fake.
Obama has shut down, shut off, and canceled more oil drilling than any President since Carter.
After the BP oil spill last year, Obama shut down all offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, idling 78,000 jobs and cutting off billions of dollars of tax revenue to state and local governments in the Gulf Coast region.
After U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman found the Gulf moratorium without factual basis, Obama lifted it, granted no permits, then reinstated the same moratorium. The same judge then found the second moratorium illegal and held the administration in contempt of court for ignoring the first order.
Seven drilling rigs have left the Gulf for friendlier waters.
Obama also reversed the Bush plan to sell leases off the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and around Alaska, even rescinding leases already granted and paid for in Alaskan waters.
It's not just oil drilling that Obama opposes. His actions say he opposes all energy development.
A recent study by the American Consumer Institute concludes that coal, natural gas, nuclear, transmission infrastructure, and even renewables were among 351 energy projects delayed or canceled by Obama. These projects represented 1.9 million jobs and an investment of $1.1 trillion.
Record drilling under Obama?
Domestic oil production increased until the BP spill because of Bush's pro-drilling policy. In 2011, the Energy Information Administration estimates, the U.S. has seen a decline in production of 220,000 barrels a day, and it projects a reduction of 150 million barrels in 2012 from the Gulf.
Two per cent of the world's oil?
The figure comes from an Energy Information Administration estimate of world proven reserves already being drilled. The 2% statement ignores federal estimates of likely reserves in the U.S. (placed off limits by Obama) that total more than three times Saudi Arabia's reserves.
Oil companies sitting on existing leases? If oil companies are not drilling on federal leases for which they have already paid a fortune, it's because exploratory wells have not hit oil, or because they have and it has taken years to get a federal permit for production wells.
Obama's proposed tax on leases "where they aren't producing a thing" would tax companies for not using a lease the feds have not yet allowed them to use.
If you think actions speak louder than words, Obama's actions betray a pattern of anti-energy moves that have driven up prices for every American consumer, increased our dependence on unreliable foreign energy sources, and aborted scarce jobs in this "recovery."
If you believe the words of the presidential teleprompter, you'll have to shut your lyin' eyes.
More evidence of panic and an impending crack-up
No new big drilling rush in Alaska.
Years ago all the heavy equipment was being shipped north during the winter, nothing has gone by at all.
Empty roads, no convoys of drill pipe or equipment, they only haul in the winter.
Obama is lying as usual.