President Barack Obama’s struggled to defend his price-boosting energy policies during a speech in Cushing, Okla., today, even as rapidly spreading criticism and rising gas prices damage his poll ratings. “He was incredibly defensive because little of what he says is true — that’s his dilemma,” said Dan Kish, a vice president at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Energy Research. Speaking off-the-cuff, Obama mistakenly said that “we only produce 2 percent of the world’s oil.” According to the federal government’s energy administration, the United States produces 10 percent of the world’s production, making it the third-largest oil producing nation. (SEE...