Image of the Day: Biden’s War On Drilling
Joe Biden has leased fewer acres for oil and gas drilling than any other president. Don’t dare suggest that he bears any responsibility for skyrocketing energy prices during his presidency, though.
Joe Biden has leased fewer acres for oil and gas drilling than any other president. Don’t dare suggest that he bears any responsibility for skyrocketing energy prices during his presidency, though.
With gas prices at record highs for this time of year, CFIF’s Renee Giachino uses facts to dispel President Obama’s myth that his administration is committed to an “all of the above” energy policy that includes increased development of domestic oil and gas. Giachino’s message to the President: “Stop the dreaming. Start the drilling.”
CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik takes President Barack Obama to task in a column for The Daily Caller today, arguing that the commander-in-chief has the power to bring down gas prices, but won’t. Instead, Obama would rather enrich a semi-socialist state like Brazil while America’s economy sputters.
In fact, gas prices are up 67 percent since President Obama took office a little more than two years ago. Lest you think this analysis one-sided, during the same period in President Bush’s tenure gas prices increased by only seven percent.
Yet that doesn’t seem to bother President Obama much. Earlier this month, he said that we can’t drill our way out of our energy problems. That is like suggesting you can’t medicate yourself out of an illness.
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As if we needed another issue to highlight the differences between conservatives and liberals, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is showing each side’s true colors.
Fox News reports that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants to put forward several ‘bite-sized’ bills to expand domestic energy production through increased oil drilling, easier permitting, and promoting nuclear power plant construction. (The piecemeal legislation is also intended to be a jab at Democrats’ penchant for ‘comprehensive’ legislative fixes.)
Liberals like Ed Markey (D-MA) want to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to drop prices by increasing supply.
How brazenly foolish. As usual, liberals want to blow a savings account instead of increasing their revenue streams. Shattering the nation’s energy piggy bank isn’t a solution to the problem – it’s a delaying tactic that puts off the hard decisions until later.
The time for stop-gap measures is over. If liberals continue to show a genetic inability to create sustainable budget and energy policies, conservatives should bypass them and get America back on a sound footing.
William F. Buckley, Jr. famously said that he’d rather be governed by the first 400 names in the Boston phonebook than by the Harvard faculty.
Every so often, however, the phone book and the faculty actually agree. According to a new Bloomberg poll, a remarkable 73% of respondents oppose our supposed philosopher-king Barack Obama’s drilling moratorium. What makes this remarkable is that approximately three-quarters of the American public, which very rarely seems to find consensus on anything these days, just doesn’t buy Obama’s constant drumbeat of scapegoating the oil industry, “deregulation” or the previous administration. What makes this even more remarkable, however, is that Obama’s own appointed “experts” agree with everyday citizens. As noted in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, the hyper-partisan investigatory panel selected by Obama himself expresses skepticism toward his moratorium.
Add the fact that two separate courts have rejected the Obama Administration’s ill-advised moratorium, which is jeopardizing even more jobs in that hard-hit region, and we’re approaching unanimity against the self-professed “bridge-builder” Obama.
In response to the uncertainty created by the Obama Administration’s foolish drilling moratorium, which has now been overturned by two separate courts, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. announced that it will shift its Ocean Endeavor operation to Egypt. As The Wall Street Journal noted, “when it comes to a showdown between jobs and ideology, the Obama Administration never fails to choose the latter.”
The Ocean Endeavor contract was worth $100 million, and its loss will cost “a great deal” of American jobs. Even Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana found herself forced to break with the Obama Administration, noting that the offshore drilling industry safely operates approximately 42,000 other wells and employs innumerable Gulf citizens both directly and indirectly. Sadly, Obama once again seems to be stimulating the far-left activist community, but not the American economy or job climate.
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