Got Oil?

Got Oil?

Got oil? We have plenty though you’d never know it from gas and heating oil prices.

We have it in ANWR, we have it in tar sands, shale, the Outer Continental Shelf, the Bakken Play in Montana, in fact, we have enough untapped oil to power our motor vehicles, heat our homes, and energize what’s left of our industries to keep America in business three hundred years, according to Kiplinger Magazine: http://bit.ly/cl0Zih

Problem is, we’d rather have $5 or $10 dollar gas, freeze our arses off, continue our dependence on foreign oil, let our industries and jobs slide down the sewer rather than go after those reserves, disturb moose-mating in ANWR, risk that shrimp, mackerel, and sturgeon don’t copulate and propagate sufficiently, or aggravate the environmental lobby.

More than any other president in modern history, you have to watch carefully what Obama does and virtually disregard what he says. Richard Nixon was a known dissembler and so his words were often discounted as the public and the press paid far more attention to his deeds to see what he was up to. Barack Hussein Obama is given a free pass by that same media and his deeds are disregarded when they are at variance with his actions.

Whether it’s his gaffes, or lack of transparency, or outright prevarications, don’t bother to read his lips, note his actions.

The question of energy independece represents a classic example of Obamian doublespeak.

An environmental extremist, Obama constantly preaches conservation, minimizing our oil and gas consumption, cutting back on essential activities, which is all well and good. At the same time he professes to be doing all in his power to explore and drill for oil and produce so-called clean energy and biofuels which are more expensive and in the case of windmills and solar, unreliable since winds don’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine.

The 31.2 billion barrel trove in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4085)