[Sacajaweau]

I'm in Upstate NY....My energy bill sure as hell isn't lower....and it never will be.

And I'm paying twice as much for gas for my car as when Obama took office.

The man has done nothing except waste our money on crap energy projects.

Stop Ethanol now!!

Approve the Keystone Pipeline NOW.

Drill in Alaska NOW.

[thackney]

U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M

U.S. Net Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTNTUS2&f=M

[muawiyah]

Guess the Dimmykrats won't be ridiculing 'drill here, drill now' anymore ~ (/s)

They are, of course, slow learners.

[Mr. K]

The fact is that most of these increases are DESPITE Obama’s best efforts to stop them.

[txrefugee]

We love our oil and gas companies in Texas. They’ve leased hundreds of thousands of acres of private land in the past four years, and farmers and ranchers are happy to have them drilling on their land. The federal government has done nothing but try to pass punitive regulations and collected their cut in taxes. The First Marxist has no shame when he takes credit for the energy boom.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Obama just knows he cannot stop fracking because Dummycrat politicians in PA, OH and nearby states have already spent those revenues into the next decade, and he’ll have an absolute revolt on his hands if he tries. (not to mention royally cheesing people off in 2 key electoral states)

[alancarp]

Haven't we learned by now that we can't take anything he says at face value?? Let's parse this:

“After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future." [The potential has been there for literally decades - only the government has kept stopping us (ANWAR, Keystone, Offshore leases sold to foreign countries and not for our own use)]

"We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years." [Others have rightly already pointed out that it happened despite Obama - and this came about strictly by American enterprise]

"We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas" [Since when?? Even if you look at the CAFE standards for cars back to the time they were first introduced, we are just now getting close to the "double" point: 18mpg in 1978 to just over 30mpg now. This simply doesn't stand up to any math test.]

"...and [doubled] the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar" [twice nothing is still nothing]

"...with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it." [how many solar companies - temporarily bolstered with taxpaying monies - have failed in the past 3 years? Any such jobs you're talking about were not the result of your efforts, Barak.]

"We produce more natural gas than ever before – and nearly everyone’s energy bill is lower because of it.” [Two points here: yes, he's actually right about the production - but as with domestic oil, he had nothing to do with it. Second, regarding price: even a casual glance at the historical charts show that there is little to correlate our (dramatically increasing) natural gas production to the (volatile) price. Currently, it is lower than usual, but it has been lower still...and up quite a bit since last summer.]

[American Constitutionalist]

Obama " nearly everyone’s energy bill is lower because of it. "

Well, that's partially true, that's until the taxes are added into the equation.

[American Constitutionalist]

WOW ! Pigs do fly.

So what has given Obama a new outlook on oil fracking and go against the environmentalist ?

Ok,

1 # Some people in Washington has talked some sense to him and managed to convince him that this is good for America ?

2 # Some people told him that the Federal government can make some really good money, opps, I meant revenue from taxes and it could help him look good in reducing the Federal deficit without much pain in cutting spending ?

3 # The big corporations control all the strings in Washington ?

4 # Maybe he does care about us Americans and the pain in our pocketbooks ? jobs ? cost of gas ?

5 # That he realized the environmentalists numbers just don't add up and it's all a big lie and scam ?

[sauropod]

bflr