Say What??
by Mike on Mar.22, 2011, under Political
I have bit my tongue and held off from claiming President Obama is out to ruin this country, but I can’t take it any more. This week, during his jaunt to Brazil, he made the following statement regarding development of offshore drilling in Brazil:
“We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers. At a time when we’ve been reminded how easily instability in other parts of the world can affect the price of oil, the United States could not be happier with the potential for a new, stable source of energy.”
He made this statement while we are in the midst of a 7 year ban on offshore drilling off of both coasts, on Alaska’s continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico. If President Obama is a hard-core environmentalist, then he should be against development of fossil fuels anywhere, and conversely, pushing for green energy development everywhere.
So if President Obama is not a died in the (green) wool environmentalist, what would be his motivation to support a job creating industry which could alleviate some of our energy dependence in a country other than our own? Perhaps he doesn’t want the U.S. to be the alpha-dog any longer and he is trying to bring us down a couple of rungs on the ladder.
What do you think?
