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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (102119)	9/23/2011 9:27:06 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Steve, Nicholas, tejek. Let us not lose sight of the fact that Bush did not believe in releasing oil from the reserves. He did not do so even at the height of the prices. Obama may have imposed the drilling moratorium, but he also released some of the oil reserves which caused prices to go down. He has also passed legislation for 40 mpg cars. Bush did not even go anywhere in that direction. Yes BUsh did use the bully pulpit to implore folks to reduce consumption. BUt I am not sure that is a creditworthy approach if as President he does not do more as Obama has done.

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (102119)	9/24/2011 9:08:50 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 149317

This nonsense of cutting off our own production is "certain" energy sources is ridiculous. One particular group of politicians blocked access to more oil in Alaska as well as issuing a seven year drilling moratorium in the gulf, which resulted in many deep water rigs leaving and more continuing to leave. In addition to his seven year drilling moratorium, Salazar has even went to great lengths to slow down the permit process, to cripple oil production even further. Now we're building a pipeline from Canada to Houston to increase oil imports from Canada? Maybe the price of gasoline is much higher now because we're using newly printed dollars to buy something actually worth something? We need more energy in this country, yet the current political climate is against natural gas for automobiles and also has announced there's not going to be any more coal fired plants built, then of course nuclear is not even being discussed. Oh, but food for fuel is out latest salvation? Let's do all of them, but why we're cutting our own throat in targeting certain sources of energy, will not see the light of day it appears. I do not believe the seven year drilling moratorium is because of the BP disaster, nor the Obama administration stating there will never be another coal fired plant be built because of air quality. We need to get it all on the table first, all of it. Prices, commodities, environmental impact, "not in my neighborhood", geopolitical, all of it.