Oil Spill Address: Will the Speech Make a Difference?

June 15th, 2010   (457 views )

President Obama addresses the nation Tuesday night at 8pm on the Gulf Coast crisis.
Will the Speech Make a Difference?
A majority of Americans disapprove of how the President has handled the spill.
52% disapprove, so we ask Will the Speech Make a Difference?

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Comment from: Steve [Visitor] Email
For nearly half the country, anything Obama says or does will be grounds for impeachment, so making a speach that he feels he must make to appease mainly those who hate him anyway, will do no good.

I'm not sure what people want the president to do. I hate to shock everyone, but we did elect a politician, not some super plumber who just doesn't feel like fixing this thing.
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Comment from: Kathy [Visitor] Email
"we did elect a politician, not some super plumber who just doesn't feel like fixing this thing. " ...Oh brother.
PermalinkPermalink 06/15/10 @ 18:22
Comment from: Maggie Mama [Visitor]
Obama said: "We consume more than 20% of the world's oil, but have less than 2% of the world's oil reserves. And that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean - because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water."

John Hindracker says: "This howler is a favorite canard of Democratic politicians. As is so often the case, they are relying on the public's ignorance. Most people don't realize that in the U.S., oil isn't counted as part of our "reserves" unless it is legally available for drilling. Thus, ANWR, to take one of many examples, isn't counted toward the total "reserves." The U.S. government could cause our reserves to skyrocket overnight by opening new areas, on land and in shallow water, to drilling. But the U.S. is the only country in the world that has deliberately chosen not to develop its own energy resources. No one else is that dumb."

Obama says: "The transition away from fossil fuels will take some time, but over the last year and a half, we have already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry."

John says: "Jumpstart" means subsidize.

Last year, the House of Representatives acted on these principles by passing a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill - a bill that finally makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America's businesses.

How does the House bill make clean energy profitable? By imposing a gigantic tax on carbon. The idea is to make fossil fuels artificially expensive, so that less efficient energy sources become competitive. This is another way of saying that the plan is to make the American people poorer."

Obama says we are addicted to oil...

John says: "The "addiction" meme is moronic. We are not addicted to oil, we make a rational decision to use it because it is the most efficient and versatile energy source on this planet. If the federal government artificially inflates the price of fossil fuels through taxation and thereby forces Americans to use less desirable sources of energy, while at the same time other countries continue to use more efficient fossil fuels, it will raise the relative price of all American products and devastate our economy. Is it possible that Barack Obama does not know this? I'm not sure; his grasp of even the most basic economic principles seems shaky at best.

So Obama's performance was not just ineffective, it was meretricious."

Thanks, John for summing up the lies and distortions!


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Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
"Obama said: "We consume more than 20% of the world's oil, but have less than 2% of the world's oil reserves. And that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean - because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water."

Its total bull. My understanding is that if we did not stop this leak, there is so much oil from this ONE OIL WELL, that it would continue to spew out for MANY YEARS to come. Have you heard how many millions of gallons they estimate already leaked in just 2 months? How can we not have enough oil?? Why do they want us to think we need to rely on foreign oil?
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