“As long as I’m President, we’re going to keep on encouraging oil development and infrastructure, and we’re going to do it in a way that protects the health and safety of the American people. We don’t have to choose between one or the other, we can do both.”Will Obama’s audacious oil play prove to be a Dukakis-in-a-tank moment, as his political opposition believes? Whether it is or not, the climate-alarmist Left is steamed. Why? Because the President’s paean to petroleum sets back the idea that big bad oil is on the way out. Game-set-match for the robust continuing carbon-based energy age.
We have come full circle from George W. Bush’s anti-oil moment in his 2006 State of the Union speech when he opined:
We have a serious problem. America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.Joe Romm, a perennially angry guy over at Climate Progress, is getting convoluted over the fracturing opposition to dense energy. His latest broadside, “Obama’s Worst Speech Ever: “We’ve Added Enough New Oil And Gas Pipeline To Encircle The Earth”, is reserved for his beloved President:
Obama will … be remembered for a ‘failed presidency‘ simply for failing to seriously fight for a climate bill. And this [Cushing] speech certainly guts any possible claim for a climate legacy.
Read more: http://www.masterresource.org/2012/03/oil-obama/
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