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To: RetiredNow who wrote (255146)	6/17/2010 7:21:01 PM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Name one source of energy that is as cost effective as oil. Your amateurish insults ID you as the lefty you are. I simply think it is ignorant when folks like you say that investing in renewable energy means we'll have to have a poorer quality of living. Who said anything about quality of living ? I never said a word about investing in anything. What I did say was Obama is as ineffective a POTUS as there has ever been.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (255146)	6/18/2010 9:38:54 AM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 306849

Still waiting for your reply mm... your usual mo is to run and hide when confronted with facts. Just like you Obama is untethered from reality : Obama and the vision thing By Charles Krauthammer Similarly, we don't know how to make renewables that match the efficiency of fossil fuels. In the interim, it is Obama and his Democratic allies who, as they dream of such scientific leaps, are unwilling to use existing technologies to reduce our dependence on foreign (i.e., imported) and risky (i.e., deep-water) sources of oil — twin dependencies that Obama decried in Tuesday's speech. "Part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean," said Obama, is "because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water." Running out of places on land? What about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or the less-known National Petroleum Reserve — 23 million acres of Alaska's North Slope, near the existing pipeline and designated nearly a century ago for petroleum development — that have been shut down by the federal government? Running out of shallow water sources? How about the Pacific Ocean, a not inconsiderable body of water, and its vast U.S. coastline? That's been off-limits to new drilling for three decades. We haven't run out of safer and more easily accessible sources of oil. We've been run off them by environmentalists. They prefer to dream green instead. Obama is dreamer in chief: He wants to take us to this green future "even if we're unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don't yet precisely know how we're going to get there." Here's the offer: Tax carbon, spend trillions and put government in control of the energy economy — and he will take you he knows not where, by way of a road he knows not which. That's why Tuesday's speech was received with such consternation. It was so untethered from reality. The rest here : washingtonpost.com