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Oil is ‘the fuel of the past,’ says President Obama
Yahoo! News ^ | March 7, 2012 | Olivier Knox |

Posted on 03/07/2012 2:14:01 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

President Barack Obama on Wednesday dismissed oil as "the fuel of the past" as he made an unapologetic election-year pitch for his alternative energy industry policies and sniped at Republicans over painfully high gasoline prices.

"They get out on the campaign trail—and you and I both know there are no quick fixes to this problem—but listening to them, you'd think there were," he said at a Daimler Truck manufacturing plant in the battleground state of North Carolina.

Obama said that because the United States accounts for 20 percent of the world's consumption of oil but has only 2 percent of its petroleum reserves, "we're not going to be able to just drill our way out of the problem of high gas prices. Anybody who tells you otherwise either doesn't know what they're talking about or they aren't telling you the truth."

"Here is the truth. If we are going to control our energy future, then we've got to have an all-of-the-above strategy," he said in his speech. "We've got to develop every source of American energy—not just oil and gas, but wind power and solar power, nuclear power, biofuels."

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; drillheredrillnow; envirofascism; greenfraud; nobama2012; obama; obamatruthfile; oil; socialistdemocrats; thegreenlie; youlie
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1 posted on 03/07/2012 2:14:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
And soon Ubama will be a President of the past.
2 posted on 03/07/2012 2:15:01 PM PST by Joe the Pimpernel (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This guy is just plain stupid. He doesn’t realize how many uses there are for oil. Just plain dumb!!


3 posted on 03/07/2012 2:16:21 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well gee Mr President how is that battery and solar panel thingy working for you? Do you think your pond scum theory of energy production will work better?


4 posted on 03/07/2012 2:18:01 PM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It is certainly clear to every informed and impartial observer of the world scene that the award of the Nobel Prize for Economics is long overdue for President Barack Obama. With this latest, courageous observation, I will stake my personal reputation that he is now rightfully due the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics.

/s


5 posted on 03/07/2012 2:18:36 PM PST by Darteaus94025
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So proclaims our new Fuehrer.

We will all be required to Heil! or be hauled off and beaten by the brownshirt union thugs.


6 posted on 03/07/2012 2:18:55 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Sacajaweau
This guy is just plain stupid.

That's why stupid people vote for him, they can relate...

7 posted on 03/07/2012 2:19:39 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama’s worldview and whole way of thinking is the stuff of the past.


8 posted on 03/07/2012 2:19:49 PM PST by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yeah, and the left never blamed high gas prices on Bush. Hell, they blamed him for Katrina, high gas prices, and 9/11. You and I know, Mr. President that you’re a bigger liar then Bill Clinton


9 posted on 03/07/2012 2:21:25 PM PST by No_More_Harkin
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Two words: dilithium crystals


10 posted on 03/07/2012 2:21:36 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm


11 posted on 03/07/2012 2:22:03 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Good thing the retrofit for dilithium is so cheap.


12 posted on 03/07/2012 2:22:03 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I should think the president would try and set the standard, like, giving up "the beast" (limo) for a Volt, and taking a bus instead of Air Force One...especially on his and moochie's personal vacations.

He who controls the oil, controls the world, and obama knows that. He is only positioning himself to control the oil.

PROFOBAMA
13 posted on 03/07/2012 2:22:19 PM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oil and Everyday Life

Oil is used in many everyday objects - more than you may have ever imagined. Click on any colorized object below to learn a little bit about how oil may have been used to create it.


14 posted on 03/07/2012 2:22:47 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

DANG! GMTA but you thought faster...


15 posted on 03/07/2012 2:22:47 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Even the Hubble space telescope has whale oil in it!


16 posted on 03/07/2012 2:22:58 PM PST by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"We've got to develop every source of American energy—not just oil and gas, but wind power and solar power, nuclear power, biofuels."

When was the last damn time a nuclear reactor was allowed to be built in this country?

This guy is an idiot.
17 posted on 03/07/2012 2:23:09 PM PST by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If they can convert bullshit to fuel, The Messiah could be the biggest source EVER DISCOVERED!


18 posted on 03/07/2012 2:23:26 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And this is why Obama wants gas prices to be over $10 bucks a gallon, he wants everyone to buy that piece of junk Volt..this is the progressive utopian society that they have always wanted.


19 posted on 03/07/2012 2:24:08 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I cannot even fathom the level of idiocy of anyone willing to make such a statement.

...and notice the oft mentioned replacement. I’m half speechless. I thought Bill Clinton was bad for the country. Holy crapola absolutely unbelievable that anyone with a brain would give this guy voice on any subject, much less cast a vote for his reelection for president.


20 posted on 03/07/2012 2:24:35 PM PST by wita
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