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To: SiouxPal who wrote (78335)	6/16/2010 4:27:36 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

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To: SiouxPal who wrote (78335)	6/16/2010 10:39:28 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Sounds better on the tube today, per the heads, than it did in person. I dunno. = OPINION: Obama's Oval Office Speech Translated Says "Drill Baby Drill" By Peter Fowler at 11:11 pm Eastern Editorial by NewsRoom America Editor, Peter Fowler Tearing away the rhetoric and reassurances from President Obama's Oval Office speech on the BP oil spill one is left with a sense his biggest message was Peak Oil is nearly upon us because we are running out of oil, but worse, there is nothing to replace it with, so we still need to "drill baby drill" despite the now obvious catastrophic risks. Normally when a United States president addresses the nation from the Oval Office it is to announce something of grave significance to the nation such as a war. President Obama's first use of this White House tradition was no different, but the enemy he seemed to be declaring war on was Peak Oil. "Oil is a finite resource," he said. "We’re running out of places to drill," he warned. "For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered," he said, acknowledging the world was running out of oil. Worse, the United States was forking out billions each day to buy oil from foreign regimes because it only had 2 percent of the world's oil reserves while consuming 20 percent of total world oil. This translated was excusing BP for drilling so deep. It was doing it so Uncle Sam could try to be more self sufficient in oil. Because of its "recklessness" BP was going to pay, but his administration would not stop deep sea drilling in the long run, because America needs the oil to power its economy. President Obama seemed to buy in to the conspiracy that big oil and big government are in cohorts to prevent other forms of so-called clean energy from being developed, mass produced, or even revealed. "Time and again, the path forward has been blocked, not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor," he said. "The consequences of our inaction are now in plain sight," he said referring to the fact that drilling for oil entails such risks that any oil spill ends up testing "the limits of human technology." In his speech President Obama tried to play up alternative "clean energy" but muffled an acknowledgment that this was still very much in early days and won't make a bit of difference for a while. "This is not some distant vision for America. The transition away from fossil fuels is going to take some time," he said appearing to contradict himself. If the "vision" of clean energy is not some distant promise, they why will the transition from fossil fuels "take some time?" Clean energy is simply in no position to replace oil, he seemed to be saying, and electric cars are still just a novelty. So, apart from telling Americans that he was going to wave a big stick at BP and make it pay for everything and anything to do with the Gulf Oil spill, and promising to root out "corruption" in federal oil regulators, President Obama basically said we are stuck with risky drilling operations for the foreseeable future until someone can figure out what can replace oil. At the same time he appeared to warn Peak Oil was nearly upon us, which seems a contradiction in terms. The world is running out of oil but we will be reliant on it for quite some time? Translated, President Obama said in his speech we are all in very big trouble, and that is why he delivered his message from the White House Oval Office. newsroomamerica.com "The world is running out of oil but we will be reliant on it for quite some time?" Translated, that means "we need oil to get off of oil."

To: SiouxPal who wrote (78335)	6/16/2010 11:49:36 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I mean, don't get me wrong. Obama really, really wants to stop the oil spill. And he really, really wants to hold BP accountable for the damage they've done. And he really, really wants the Gulf Coast to come through this hardship and he really, really wants to wean us from our dependency on foreign oil, and oil in general. But "really, really wants" is not a plan, and only the bitterest and most brain-dead of political opponents would have presumed, going into tonight, that Obama had not yet properly sentimentalized his opinions on any of those matters. I didn't bother to watch it. His talk last nite was for the people who have been on vacation in the Arctic circle and for the media who are hysterical and eating xanax for their main course. It was overkill IMO. Obama's advisors need to chill.