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In Weekly Address Obama Takes Credit for US Oil Boom …That He Had Nothing to Do With
Gateway Pundit ^ | November16,2013 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 11/16/2013 3:45:15 PM PST by Hojczyk

In his weekly address, President Obama took credit for the booming energy sector in the country.

From the White House:

One area where we’ve made great progress is American energy. After years of talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, we are actually poised to control our own energy future.

Shortly after I took office, we invested in new American technologies to reverse our dependence on foreign oil and double our wind and solar power. And today, we generate more renewable energy than ever – with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it. We produce more natural gas than anyone – and nearly everyone’s energy bill is lower because of it. And just this week, we learned that for the first time in nearly two decades, the United States of America now produces more of our own oil here at home than we buy from other countries.

That’s a big deal. That’s a tremendous step towards American energy independence.

However, the truth is that Barack Obama actually cut oil and gas permits since he came into office. In fact he has the worst record on granting permits than any president in recent years.

The Institute for Energy Research

And, Fossil Fuel Production on Public Lands Is At 10 Year Low– The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its report in June on, Sales of Fossil Fuels Produced on Federal and Indian Lands, FY 2003 Through FY 2012. The report shows that total fossil fuel production on federal lands is at a ten year low, natural gas production on federal lands is also at a ten year low, and oil production on federal land fell in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 ending two years of increase in fiscal years 2009 and 2010.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: energy; oil
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To: ridesthemiles

They are deserving and easier to get at I imagine.


21 posted on 11/16/2013 4:36:16 PM PST by funfan
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To: Hojczyk

That means 0bama is solely responsible for Glowbull Warming.


22 posted on 11/16/2013 4:44:55 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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23 posted on 11/16/2013 4:47:22 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Why does lightning miss him on the golf course for years?


24 posted on 11/16/2013 4:54:39 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Argus

Thanks, knew the story but couldn’t remember the roosters name.


25 posted on 11/16/2013 5:00:26 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Argus
This really burned me up - I was screaming at the radio.

This is like Clinton getting the credit for the economy we had in the late 90s.

Job creation? That job growth started over a year before he took office, and was helped by the Tech Boom and Y2K, neither of which were his doing.

Balanced budget? He didn't have to budget for the Cold War, got the benefit of the tax revenue from the Tech Boom, and effectively punted the WOT to the next administration.

His predecessors' policies enabled all of this, but he was in office, so he got the credit. That burned me up too.

26 posted on 11/16/2013 5:02:12 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

You build it (in spite of him)...Clown Prince nobama takes credit for it.


27 posted on 11/16/2013 5:28:31 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Hojczyk
Thank heavens that the major new oil and gas discoveries in the USA are located in two states (ND and TX) where a minuscule percent of the land is owned by the federal government. Otherwise, the environmentalist lunatics in the Obama administration would have prevented the recovery of these tremendous new energy reserves.

As usual, when one looks beyond the lies of the worthless Obama administration, the real energy solutions are coming from private enterprise and not government.

28 posted on 11/16/2013 5:33:19 PM PST by Unmarked Package
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To: funfan

he did all he could to prevent oil independence, block the keystone pipeline, blocked oil leases on gouv. lands, closed the gulf drilling down for years, blocked drilling off Florida. The list goes on and on.


29 posted on 11/16/2013 5:35:13 PM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: Hojczyk

What an ass. The oil companies and private land owners are solely responsible for our oil and gas boom. This liar has stood in the way of off-shore drilling ever since the BP spill, and we all know how his Leftist EPA has blocked the XL pipeline. His cronies got billions of tax dollars for now-defunct wind and solar scams which did absolutely nothing but launder money for Democrat campaign coffers.


30 posted on 11/16/2013 5:39:19 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: GSWarrior

Here Comes Obama.....


31 posted on 11/16/2013 5:39:57 PM PST by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Hojczyk

I really think that if you were to factor out both the private energy boom and QE, then the GDP is and has been negative. Which is what the left wants.


32 posted on 11/16/2013 6:31:51 PM PST by Stand W (Crush your enemies! See them driven before you! Hear the lamentations of their women!)
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33 posted on 11/16/2013 7:58:42 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

BTTT!


34 posted on 11/17/2013 6:26:24 PM PST by Pagey (HELL is The 2nd Term of a POTUS who uses the terms “social justice” and “fair distribution".)
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