Unicorn flatulence refining capability on the rise

Well, that’s how I read the latest from the President anyway;

President Obama called on Wednesday for a one-third reduction in oil imports over the next decade, and said the effort had to begin immediately. In a speech at Georgetown University, the president said that the United States could not go on consuming one-quarter of the world’s oil production while possessing only 2 percent of global reserves. He said that the country had to begin a long-term plan to reduce its reliance on imported oil, and that the political bickering that had stalled progress toward that goal for decades had to end.

I mean, no one in their right mind would call for cuts in imported oil without a way to replace the energy needs, would they?

He called for a fuel-saving strategy of producing more electric cars, converting trucks to run on natural gas, building new refineries to brew billions of gallons of biofuels and setting new fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles.

Oh, good, I thought he was talking out of his ass there for a minute.

“We can’t rush to propose action when prices are high, then push the snooze button when they go down again. We can’t keep doing that. The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity and security on a resource that will eventually run out.”

The Democrats have been on “snooze” since 1979 when Jimmy Carter and the Democrat Congress formed the Department of Energy;

To make absolutely certain that nothing stands in the way of achieving these goals, I will urge Congress to create an energy mobilization board which, like the War Production Board in World War II, will have the responsibility and authority to cut through the redtape, the delays, and the endless roadblocks to completing key energy projects.

We will protect our environment. But when this Nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it.

Yeah, and they haven’t built a refinery or pipeline since. Carter also said;

Beginning this moment, this Nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 — never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation.

Our own production? Oil fields lay untapped, refineries remain unbuilt. And yet another President expects us to buy crap box electric cars and use unproven technology. I just bought two new cars in the last two years to help save us from the last crisis…think I’m going to sell them off and buy some shit boxes to save us from the next crisis?

Back to the present;

“So any claim that my administration is responsible for gas prices because we’ve shut down oil production — any claim like that is simply untrue,” the president said.

You ain’t opened up any oil production either.

On Tuesday, House Republicans introduced three bills to reverse the administration’s offshore oil drilling policies, calling for vast new tracts of offshore territory to be opened to deep-water drilling and for speedier approval of drilling permits.

Let’s watch how well that shakes out.

Drill, baby, drill.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden