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To: Steely Tom

Fracking Debunks Obama’s ‘We Can’t Drill Our Way Out’
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/120314-728986-fracking-proves-we-can-drill-our-way-to-low-prices-and-independence.htm

Back in 2006, for example, then-Sen. Obama said expanded drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would only “lull the American people into thinking that we can drill our way out of our energy problems.”

When he ran for president in 2008 while gas prices spiked, he mocked John McCain’s call for more drilling. “This is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of,” he said.

After the BP oil spill in 2010, Obama explained that “the reason you never heard me say ‘Drill, baby, drill’ (is) because we can’t drill our way out of the problem.” He went on to claim that “easily accessible oil has already been sucked up out of the ground.”

In 2011, while pushing to end oil industry tax breaks, Obama claimed: “If we’re serious about addressing our energy problems, we’re going to have to do more than drill.”

In 2012, when running for re-election, the president declared: “Even if we drilled every square inch of this country right now, we’re going to be relying on other countries for oil.”

And when he unveiled his “all of the above” energy strategy, Obama lectured the country about how “there’s a problem with a strategy that only relies on drilling, and that is America uses more than 20% of the world’s oil. If we drilled every square inch of this country ... we’d still have only 2% of the world’s known oil reserves.” He added: “We’ve got a math problem here.”

Turns out, it’s Obama who has the math problem.


7 posted on 12/08/2014 5:23:35 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: thackney

Seems the only math he did understand was that our dolars would support Saudi terrorists on welfare in Saudi Arabia, Tsarnaev connection style.


11 posted on 12/08/2014 6:39:00 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: thackney
‘Drill, baby, drill’ (is) because we can’t drill our way out of the problem.”

Hafta ask Reggie Love.

14 posted on 12/08/2014 6:57:18 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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