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Posted on 04/21/2011 7:07:41 AM PDT by Qbert
President Obama called out Capitol Hill’s “climate change deniers” Wednesday night at a Democratic fundraiser in California.
Obama, speaking at a San Francisco event for donors, called rising gasoline prices an economic drain on drivers and said curbing oil reliance is a “national security imperative.”
“And then there’s the environmental aspect of it. There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough, sometimes environmental issues drop from people’s radar screens,” Obama continued, speaking at the home of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.
“But I don’t think there’s any doubt that unless we are able to move forward in a serious way on clean energy that we’re putting our children and our grandchildren at risk,” Obama added.
Obama also talked climate during his appearance at Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters earlier in the day, listing it among the challenges facing the nation.
“Internationally, we're seeing the sorts of changes that we haven't seen in a generation. We've got certain challenges like energy and climate change that no one nation can solve but we're going to have to solve together,” Obama said. “And we don't yet have all the institutions that are in place in order to do that.”
Climate change has been on and off the menu in Obama’s remarks on energy this year, and some environmentalists want a more robust White House stance on the issue.
His State of the Union Speech in January lacked any mention of climate change or global warming or greenhouse gases. It referred to the issue obliquely, noting that boosting clean energy is needed to “protect our planet.”
The issue made a roaring comeback in Obama’s high-profile March 30 speech on energy at Georgetown University, when climate and carbon garnered a half-dozen references in wide-ranging remarks about energy security.
“The only way for America’s energy supply to be truly secure is by permanently reducing our dependence on oil. We’re going to have to find ways to boost our efficiency so we use less oil. We’ve got to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy that also produce less carbon pollution, which is threatening our climate,” he said.
The comments come as the White House is trying to politically recalibrate its energy and climate agenda following the collapse of cap-and-trade legislation on Capitol Hill last year – legislation that’s a non-starter in the current Congress.
Capitol Hill Republicans and some Democrats are trying to kill or delay the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate change regulations.
Obama, for his part, is no longer advocating for emissions-capping legislation. Instead he’s pushing for a “clean energy standard” that would require utilities to greatly expand electricity from low-carbon sources in coming decades (a plan that faces big hurdles in Congress).
Obama’s also calling for increases in clean energy R&D spending, planning continued boosts in auto fuel economy rules, and preparing first-time mileage standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, among other goals in the White House energy blueprint.
Obama addressed rising gasoline prices at the San Francisco event Benioff hosted, even while acknowledging that donors at the $35,800-per-plate event weren’t personally struggling with costs at the pump.
“Right now we’ve got $4-a-gallon gas, and most of the people under this tent don’t have to worry about that. But for the average person who has to drive 50 miles to work and can’t afford to buy the Tesla, it’s hammering them. It’s hurting them,” Obama said, according to a White House transcript that notes the Tesla comment drew laughter.
Tesla Motors is a California-based company that makes an electric sports car that sells for over $100,000, while the sedan Tesla plans to make available next year is about half that price.
Obama added:
“So there’s a huge economic imperative. There’s a national security imperative, as well, because we see what’s happening in the Middle East and we understand that a finite resource that is primarily located in a very unstable part of the world is not good for our long-term future.”
A lot of tax money can be made on the climate change scam it’s the only reason he likes it.
Is a "warmer" constantly 'in heat'?
Maybe we should label the 'hotties'?
Who’s denying that the climate changes periodically? No one as far as I know. What we deny is AGW, and we detest the warmist politicians who make wrong-headed policies because of their misguided belief in AGW.
I am sure Obama will be relieved to hear that Charles Manson has recently voiced concern for the Global Warming cause. Perhaps there will be a position in his administration.
Like Jimmah didn't point this out a couple of decades back. WTF has the Energy Dept been up to in that period?
I have acquaintances I’d lost respect for - and therefore no longer considered friends - over obastard. Well, several of them have come around. One appologized profusely for some things she’d said to me during the 08 election. A Hollywood liberal to boot.
She’s now a hard core conservative. We’re becoming friends again. She hates the leftists cesspool in LA, wants to move to Texas.
What happened? One too many lies from obastard woke her up, so she started really listening to me and paying attention. “How did you know he be like this?” It was an easy question to answer.
This kind of stupidity from obastard just infuriates her now.
Keep jumping the shark, zero. Please.
Railroads for personal transportation? So 1800's
Electric cars? So early 1900's
WTF by revisiting the past?
The Dream Team of Global Warming Hoaxes: Charles Manson, bin Laden & Barry.
“A lot of tax money can be made on the climate change scam it’s the only reason he likes it.”
Plus the power to control the behavior of everybody- a key thing with dictatorial-minded leftists.
“How can successful business people suck up to this phony? He is anathema to business, to entrepreneurship, to job growth and economic development. He sits next to them and attacks millionaires and billionaires. They can’t be so stupid as to not realize this.... can they?”
Two reasons.
(1) They’re scared, so they suck up to obastard hoping to be “eaten last.”
(2) They’re corrupt, so they suck up to obastard hoping to get their cut of obama money.
That’s it. No other reasons exist.
True they love power to bad they have no idea what to do with it,see Obama&Co.
looks like another Bitter Clingers Moment (i.e. telling his San Francisco base what they want to hear, but it will be perceived very, very negatively by everyone else)
Don’t forget the bell boy, Newt Gingrich
Fixed it.
Notice how 'reliance on foreign oil' has become simply 'reliance on oil'. I'm realling getting to hate this bastard.
Yes, there is climate change. No, humans aren't the primary reason.
You've gotta love the phrase "climate change denier" which deliberately evokes the specter of the "Holocaust denier" of yesteryear. It's insidious.
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