Gas Prices Doubled, Obama Locks Up Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve

True Conservatives On Twitter ^ | October 17, 2012

[raptor22]

Energy Policy: As the administration fast-tracks solar projects on public lands, it has locked up more than half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, preferring to continue outsourcing energy jobs and dollars.

The price of gasoline, which was $1.84 a gallon the day President Obama took office, has more than doubled since, willfully aided and abetted by an administration that claims we can't drill our way to energy independence as we ignore vast reserves of North American energy that dwarf OPEC's and we sit on 100 years' supply of petroleum.

Few Americans have heard of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA), and those who have might get it confused with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or even the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to the east. The NPRA, 23 million acres of North Slope wilderness, was established in 1923 by President Harding to ensure a reserve of oil for the U.S. Navy.

In 1976 Congress designated it as a strategic oil and natural gas stockpile to meet the "energy needs of the nation." Obama has cited it as an example of areas where the oil companies could drill but are reluctant to, knowing full well his administration has walled off preferred areas on the Outer Continental Shelf, on protected federal lands and in ANWR.

Now his administration has walled off the most productive areas of NPRA in a little-noticed Interior Department decision in August closing off drilling on nearly half of NPRA's 23.5 million acres of desolate, frozen wilderness. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says his plan "will help the industry bring energy safely to market from this remote location, while also protecting wildlife and subsistence rights of Alaska natives."

Alaska's entire congressional delegation — Sens. Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young — say otherwise.

[raptor22]

With Obama, the drill is gone...

[Tucker39]

Re the debate, and Obunga’s lame lie that the low gas price when he took office was because of the bad economy at that time: My lord! If that were true, and if low gas prices were a result of a bad economy.....Then the gasoline price NOW, in THIS abysmal economy SHOULD BE $.75 per gallon! If a bad economy means LOW gasoline prices, then as the economy GOT WORSE under Obunga, the price should have gone DOWN; NOT UP!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Stuart Varney gave about the same conclusions earlier on FNC. He also said Romney was correct on that. Also Romney was correct on less gas and oil leases on federal land. Varney also said Romney was right about there being less oil and gas production on existing leases.

[Wurlitzer]

Even though most of our oil does not come from rag head countries our Mudslime Manchurian Candidate President needs to keep the global price of oil as high as possible so his camel jockey friends get as much of our money as possible.

To keep this price high he has to slow down if not stop any drilling leases and prevent pipelines from being built.

Score 100 for Obama and 0 for USA citizens.

[txrefugee]

Rob Portman dropped the ball in preparing for this debate. Romney should have has these facts at his fingertips, instead of letting The Liar in Chief off the hook concerning his drastic reduction in drilling.