Posted on 04/07/2011 6:01:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
Leadership: Making jokes about remembering what it was like to pump gas or speaking at a foreign-owned wind turbine plant does not ease the pain at the pump that has been orchestrated by the White House.
President Obama found time on the eve of a possible government shutdown to dine with the Rev. Al Sharpton, address his National Action Network Annual Gala and make quips about an energy crisis America finds increasingly unfunny.
"I don't pump gas now, but I remember what it was like pumping gas. ... I remember the end of the month (paying bills) .. . I remember that," the president joked Wednesday. Now he spends his time running up the nation's bills while he fulfills his campaign promise to make energy prices "necessarily skyrocket."
The president said he was not "out of touch" as the media accused President George H.W. Bush of being when he demonstrated unfamiliarity with supermarket scanners. No, the president is plugged into reality as he test-drives overpriced electric cars no one wants and tours foreign-owned wind turbine plants.
Speaking at such a plant in Fairless Hills, Pa., owned by the Spanish firm Gamesa, Obama said there was "not much we can do next week or two weeks from now" about gas prices. He didn't address his two-year war on domestic energy including a seven-year moratorium on oil drilling off both coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off Alaska.
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Obama is too beholden to his liberal ideology. He wants to stop the rise of the oceans, and allow the planet to heal. I think he’s still peeved that cap and trade didn’t pass in the last Congress. Everybody knows that the planet will heal and oceans stop rising if we all buy carbon credits. (sarcasm)
I used to think 1.37$ for a gallon of gas was a rip off.
How I long for those days. :(:(:(
What coherent, long term, feasible plan based on sound economic, national security principals has he applied while in office regards energy?
CO2 is now a chemical that is monitored by the EPA.
Off shore oil drill ban after BP oil spill.
No to ANWR.
No to nuclear since Fukushima, not mentioned any more in his speeches.
etc etc etc etc..
Is this for real? Seriously, does he take us for idiots? He hasn't and doesn't have a plan. All he does is make nice sounding speeches and pretends to have a plan, issuing so called energy briefs on line that are complete nonsense with big pretty bar charts showing huge gains in alternative, green, regenerative, sustainable power..... lol
FARCE!
Barack Hussein laughs at high gas prices while breaking -er- backing wind at foreign turbine factory.
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