Sarah Palin: With Our Four-Dollar-Per-Gallon President “2012 Can’t Come Soon Enough”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 5:16 AM
Thanks to Barack Obama’s failed energy policies, seven deepwater rigs were moved from the Gulf of Mexico in the last year to Egypt, Angola, French Guiana, Nigeria, Brazil and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Sarah Palin slammed Barack Obama over his failed energy policy that is causing American gas prices to rise to $4 per gallon.
From her Facebook page.
Is it really any surprise that oil and gas prices are surging toward the record highs we saw in 2008 just prior to the economic collapse? Despite the President’s strange assertions in his press conference last week, his Administration is not a passive observer to the trends that have inflated oil prices to dangerous levels. His war on domestic oil and gas exploration and production has caused us pain at the pump, endangered our already sluggish economic recovery, and threatened our national security.
The evidence of the President’s anti-drilling mentality and his culpability in the high gas prices hurting Americans is there for all to see. The following is not even an exhaustive list:
Exhibit A: His drilling moratorium. Guided by politics and pure emotion following the Gulf spill instead of peer-reviewed science or defensible law, the President used the power of his executive order to impose a deepwater drilling moratorium. The Administration even ignored a court order halting his moratorium. And what is the net result of the President’s (in)actions? A large drilling company was forced to declare bankruptcy, the economy of the region has been hobbled, and at least 7 rigs moved out of the Gulf area to other parts of the world while many others remain idle. Is it any surprise that oil production in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to fall by 240,000 bbl/d in 2011 alone?
…Taken altogether, it’s hard to deny that the Obama Administration is anti-drilling. The President may try to suggest that the rise in oil prices has nothing to do with him, but the American people won’t be fooled. Before we saw any protests in the Middle East, increased global demand led to a significant rise in oil prices; but the White House stood idly by watching the prices go up and allowing America to remain increasingly dependent on imports from foreign regimes in dangerously unstable parts of the world.
This was no accident. Through a process of what candidate Obama once called “gradual adjustment,” American consumers have seen prices at the pump rise 67 percent since he took office. Let’s not forget that in September 2008, candidate Obama’s Energy Secretary in-waiting said: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” That’s one campaign promise they’re working hard to fulfill! Last week, the British Telegraph reported that the price of petrol in the UK hit £6 a gallon – which comes to about $9.70. If you think $4 a gallon is bad now, just wait till the next crisis causes oil prices to “necessarily” skyrocket. Meanwhile, the vast undeveloped reserves that could help to keep prices at the pump affordable remain locked up because of President Obama’s deliberate unwillingness to drill here and drill now.
Hitting the American people with higher gas prices like this is essentially a hidden tax and a transfer of wealth to foreign regimes who are providing us the energy we refuse to provide for ourselves. Like inflation, higher energy prices are a hidden tax on Americans who are struggling to make ends meet. And these high gas prices will be felt in the form of higher food prices due to higher transportation costs. Energy is connected to everything in our economy. Access to affordable and secure energy is key to economic growth, which in turn is key to job growth. Energy is the building block of our economy. The President is purposely weakening that building block and weakening our country.
2012 can’t come soon enough.
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scituate_tgr commented:
Wait. Isn’t this W’s fault?
apodoca commented:
ABC’s Obot, John Berman lies about what she says to score points for Teh Won.
Palin said: “The President may try to suggest that the rise in oil prices has nothing to do with him, but the American people won’t be fooled. Before we saw any protests in the Middle East, increased global demand led to a significant rise in oil prices; but the White House stood idly by watching the prices go up and allowing America to remain increasingly dependent on imports from foreign regimes in dangerously unstable parts of the world.”
John Berman, the Obot lied: “She disputes the notion that rising prices are related to the unrest in the Middle East, saying rather, ‘the White House stood idly by watching the prices go up and allowing America to remain increasingly dependent on imports from foreign regimes in dangerously unstable parts of the world’.”
Amazing what happens when you omit the causal factor.
IOpian commented:
There are many other uses for oil besides fuel. The prices for feed-stocks, medicine, plastics and the thousands of other petroleum bi-products will also inflate.
The administration is using the same excuses we heard last time fuel prices inflated such as ‘well the oil companies have thousands of leases with no rigs operating on them’ which shows an abject ignorance of oil leasing works and the prohibitive costs of having an offshore platform actively drilling simultaneously on each lease. Shear ignorance of something they have too much power over.
RedBeard commented:
Palin’s accurate attack will be savaged by the left, because, as they see it, Palin can’t possibly be right about anything, because everyone knows you can’t see Russia from her hot tub, so she’s an idiot. Or words to that effect.
In other words, pay NO attention to what she says (except to distort it), and do NOT address the actual substance.
Typical leftist dishonesty.
John commented:
I’m a bit disappointed in Sarah on this one:
“Taken altogether, it’s hard to deny that the Obama Administration is anti-drilling”
Obama is not anti-drilling. Obama and his cronies are anti-oil and anti-American. He would be against it if it came to us prepackaged in big cans.
His objective is to minimize the importance of the US, to marginalize us to the point where we are no long an important factor in the world but just another country like the other 169 members of the UN.
Millitant Conservative commented:
I like that Palin is one of the few political figures that understands AND articulates that Obama
is PUPOSEFULLY causing this damage. He’s NOT STUPID He’s a DANGEROUS SOCIALIST!
RUN BABE RUN. Powder is dry.
Rose commented:
I prefer to keep praying to God for His Solution to come much much much sooner than 2012/2013.
I like things like Numbers 16, or Herod in Acts 12, etc…
Sudden and unexpected “turns in the road of Life”.
Ginger commented:
” Act of God”
succotash commented:
She is right as usual and has the gumption to say it. I don’t see this kind of spunk from any of the usual suspects who are thinking of running in 2012.
Madkangaroo commented:
It seems appropriate to repost comments I made on another thread:
“…according to the U.S Minerals Management Service (Dept. of the Interior) the increase in Gulf of Mexico oil production during Obama’s reign is 75% due to wells returning to production after shutdowns from hurricanes, and peaking production from wells that were begun long before Obama was in office (e.g., Thunder Horse field ~ 200K bbls./day). Obama is taking credit for blocs leased, oil discovered, and wells approved and drilled in the Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, and Bush 2 administrations.
see: http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/PDFs/2009/2009-012.pdf”
Money quote from the source I linked to above:
“The anticipated increase in production for the year 2009 reflects not only production from the many projects slated to come online in this year, but also the addition of volumes that were shut-in during 2008 as a result of hurricane activity. For the oil, 75-percent of the increase in production is a reflection of shut-in volumes coming back online in early 2009. Seventy-two-percent of the increase of gas production results from shut-in volumes coming back online. Within the next 10 years, total GOM oil production is expected to exceed 1.6 million barrels of oil per day (MMBOPD) based on existing shallow and deepwater operator commitments..”
The production increase is from “…projects slated to come online in this year” , from “…addition of volumes that were shut-in during 2008…” and from “…existing shallow and deepwater operator commitments..”. IOW, from projects approved and begun long before Obama showed up. He’s such a lying POS it makes my blood boil.
Airon Later commented:
Obama doesn’t control gas prices. End of story.
Bush saw significant increases in gas prices/oil prices while green-lighting more oil exploration and drilling than any President in recent memory. Where was your righteous indignation then?
If you people keep looking to Palin for your talking points, you’re going to lose 2012 more than you could possibly imagine.
Madkangaroo commented:
#11 March 16, 2011 at 8:42 am Airon Later commented:
“Obama doesn’t control gas prices. End of story.”
But his policies will ensure restrictions in future U.S. oil and gas production, which makes us more vulnerable to external events which *do* control prices; that’s the point she made and the issue you ignore.
Amjean commented:
Airon, there is ALWAYS public outcry when gas prices increase because family budgets
are affected.
Where is YOUR outcry when Obama gave Brazil (George Soros major investor) 1 billion (or more) to drill off the coast of Brazil?
Ginger commented:
succotash commented:
She is right as usual and has the gumption to say it. I don’t see this kind of spunk from any of the usual suspects who are thinking of running in 2012.
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I call it….”fire in the belly” the love of America and sees the corruption that is happening. Three people comes to mind that has that fire in the belly and that I trust not to be a demo-rat in republican colors.
Governor Sarah Palin
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann
Congressman Allen West
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
It maybe true that I caused gas prices to skyrocket. But, remember I don’t pay for my gas – the Taxpayer’s do. I don’t care. Ha ha!
My Limousine is running and I have a meeting with Hugo. It’s not about oil. It’s about the quality of his weed. I hope gas prices to $10 per gallon! I may suck but I still hate America! Good day.
Airon Later commented:
#13
“Where is YOUR outcry when Obama gave Brazil (George Soros major investor) 1 billion (or more) to drill off the coast of Brazil?”
False. False. False.
The Obama administration did no such thing – never signed such an executive order.
This was a preliminary action was taken by Ex-Im ( Export-Import Bank of US ) and approved by holdover appointees from the Bush administration, as stated by Ex-Im in their memo regarding this.
You should really stop listening to Glenn Beck so much.
jomojava the infidel commented:
#11 March 16, 2011 at 8:42 am Airon Later commented:
“Obama doesn’t control gas prices. End of story.”
He may not control them YET, but there’s no doubt that he supports higher fuel prices. He’s on record saying as much in 2008. His only regret at the time was that prices had risen too quickly.
He needs higher gas prices to make the ignorant and misguided dream of green energy more competitive.
RedBeard commented:
Airon, Amjean said nothing about an executive order.
And just a small heads-up; George Bush is no longer president. Those Ex-Im people report to Barack Obama.
wilpeepee commented:
Sarah posted from her facebook page. Hahahahahahahah. What a political force she is. Hahahahahah. Now her support among REPUBLICANS is dropping like a rock. Hahahahaha
Bill Fabrizio commented:
Like her or not. Palin’s comments are always spot on from an accuracy standpoint!
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