Obama: Gas Prices are High Because Climate Change Deniers Refuse to Tackle Global Warming

By Doug Powers  •  April 21, 2011 12:27 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

Gas prices are around $4 a gallon — and in some areas pushing $5 a gallon — and Chicago is seeing their lowest springtime temperatures since the 1940s. This means it’s the perfect time to talk about what needs to be done to combat global warming before our brains thaw out for a season called “summer” that used to be caused by earth tilt and the sun but is now blamed on capitalism.

Obama hasn’t mentioned “climate change” a lot recently. He’s spoken of “clean energy” and whatnot, but now that the campaign is getting moving, gas prices continue to rise and it’s apparent he has no interest in domestic drilling, there’s got to be an excuse for taking no real action to bring the price down. The campaign’s angle is shaping up to be more along the lines of “gas prices are high because we’re trying to save your life and the lives of your children and grandchildren and the GOP doesn’t want to.”

From The Hill:

President Obama called out Capitol Hill’s “climate change deniers” Wednesday night at a Democratic fundraiser in California.

Obama, speaking at a San Francisco event for donors, called rising gasoline prices an economic drain on drivers and said curbing oil reliance is a “national security imperative.”

“And then there’s the environmental aspect of it. There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough, sometimes environmental issues drop from people’s radar screens,” Obama continued, speaking at the home of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.

“But I don’t think there’s any doubt that unless we are able to move forward in a serious way on clean energy that we’re putting our children and our grandchildren at risk,” Obama added.

The wealthy supporters in attendance at the $35,000 per person fundraiser then applauded wildly, got on their bicycles and pedaled home to their Ecopods. There was of course no mention of this national security threat.

Curbing oil reliance wasn’t a huge national security imperative last month:

Mr Obama spoke of the US’s desire to secure more of its oil from Brazil in future after talks with his counterpart, President Dilma Rousseff, in Brasilia at the start of a two-day visit to Latin America’s biggest country. “I have told her that the United States wants to be a major customer, which can be a win-win for both our countries,” he said.

Maybe the new push to battle climate change is because the president got nervous after James Cameron said that man-made global warming is now a greater threat than Skynet. For me it isn’t really a question of which of the two is the greater threat as much as which is the most fictional.

**Written by Doug Powers

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  1. #101
    On April 21st, 2011 at 4:02 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Obama knows his audience; Only San Franciscans are that stupid.

    Since I don’t live that far from San Fransicko, I agree 100%!

  2. #102
    On April 21st, 2011 at 4:10 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    A lobotomy sure looks tempting right about now.

    The scar on his scalp? I’m sure he’s already had one. He was just an ordinary boy being raised by radical grandparents….until they were made aware of his potential for the socialist agenda. A seemingy innocent trip for a doctor’s visit.

    Everything changed.

  3. #103
    On April 21st, 2011 at 4:31 pm, SolidSnake said:

    Global warming is just a bunch of fiction designed to push the liberal political agenda in Washington. And, of course, Obama pins the blame on Republicans. We need to get this guy out of office next year.

  4. #104
    On April 21st, 2011 at 4:43 pm, bjc said:

    *Man made global warming, still the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind; Nothing will ever match it, ever!; If only those in DC would focus on real pollution, like we did back in the 70′s; But if they did, they would have to point out that China, where we get all our trinkets we don’t need, is the world’s biggest polluter by far; The truth hurts, but political correctness kills; Our beloved country will not survive a P-BO 2nd term, so choose wisely people!

  5. #105
    On April 21st, 2011 at 4:49 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Our beloved country will not survive a P-BO 2nd term, so choose wisely people!

    I keep wondering if we’ll even survive his first term.

  6. #106
    On April 21st, 2011 at 4:52 pm, prendad said:

    Oh please stop Mr. President, I just cannot stop laughing. You are the funniest guy, a real side splitter. Hey out there, let’s all hear it for Mr. Obama, the funniest guy in D.C. come-on now let’s give it up for Barack!

  7. #107
    On April 21st, 2011 at 4:55 pm, torpedoman2002 said:

    On April 21st, 2011 at 4:10 pm, hawkeye54 said:
    A lobotomy sure looks tempting right about now.
    The scar on his scalp? I’m sure he’s already had one. He was just an ordinary boy being raised by radical grandparents….until they were made aware of his potential for the socialist agenda. A seemingy innocent trip for a doctor’s visit.

    Everything changed.

    No someone with a lobotomy would have more common sence then Oboma has.

  8. #108
    On April 21st, 2011 at 5:03 pm, torpedoman2002 said:

    On April 21st, 2011 at 12:32 pm, Mister P said:
    Why aren’t we hearing the GOP push for drilling in ANWR?

    I’ve been asking that myself. This is the best time to be talking to everyone about drilling now, and drilling everywhere. The government needs to sell some of the land they stole from citizens to cover for our national debt and let the private sector start drilling for oil in these areas. This will bring down the price of gas, not fighting a man-made crisis.

  9. #109
    On April 21st, 2011 at 5:25 pm, MCPO Airdale said:

    I would respond to Mr. Obama’s nonsense, but my language would get me banned.

    So, I’ll leave you with a quaint British exclamation: “Codswallop!”

  10. #110
    On April 21st, 2011 at 5:30 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Check this out….

    The frickin’ Peacock is Green !

  11. #111
    On April 21st, 2011 at 5:43 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Check this out….

    The flippin’ Peacock is Green !

  12. #112
    On April 21st, 2011 at 5:48 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    MCPO Airdale said:

    “Codswallop!”

    Having never served alongside Her Majesty’s Fleet ( I’ll have to take you at your word ) Lol, Hey Master Chief!

    I could understand being forced to weather this economy out at the mercy of world oil-spot prices ( if we didn’t have any of our own ) But we are -not- ‘there’ ) We’re simply not!

    And it’s not like we don’t have legions of unemployed to do the E & P ( Exploration and Production ) Sheesh.

  13. #113
    On April 21st, 2011 at 5:49 pm, jrgdds said:

    Obama: Gas Prices are High Because Climate Change Deniers Refuse to Tackle Global Warming

    Global Warming: Liberal Believers vs. Conservative Deniers Here

  14. #114
    On April 21st, 2011 at 6:00 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    No someone with a lobotomy would have more common sence then Oboma has.

    Oh, so it wasn’t a lobotomy that was done on him. I fear he’s beyond what effect a lobotomy could have on him now. Wouldn’t hurt to try.

  15. #115
    On April 21st, 2011 at 6:03 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    The flippin’ Peacock is Green !

    What else would you expect from the Obummers media enablers and abettors.

  16. #116
    On April 21st, 2011 at 6:28 pm, orlandocajun said:

    The guy is just speaking down to his base. It’s what they love about the guy after all. They’re eating it up like candy. The good news…his base can’t re-elect him. The percentage of loons in this country has been tabulated at 20%. At this point, Louis Farrakhan has a bigger base than he does. Let him keep talking…the hole is getting deeper every day!

  17. #117
    On April 21st, 2011 at 7:34 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Yes, zombies and Democrats — Bob Hope beat me to it ;-)

    Great find TooMuchTime, but then Bambi-Big Ears- Obama did promise us higher energy cost did he not?

    Why yes he did in January 2008 “that will cost money, that cost will be passed on to Bitter Clingers consumers.

    ===
    The Right to Keep and Bear Arms–>Constitutional Carry
    It is a RIGHT
    Not a license from “our betters”

  18. #118
    On April 21st, 2011 at 8:16 pm, buzdburd said:

    There HAS to be a way to get the CongressCritters’ attention about drilling. Maybe when gas hits $5/gal, the Tea Parties will get more active. There was movement last November, but not enough to get the ball rolling. But when gas hits $5/gal, watch food and commodity prices start skyrocketing.

    Nice little trick the government has about not including food or gas in its numbers when figuring inflation.

    Or not counting the actual number of unemployed. We all know that the unemployment rate is actually more than double what is reported!

  19. #119
    On April 21st, 2011 at 8:28 pm, ToBNamedL8r said:

    Gas prices are higher because the puppets in Congress last sessions are more interested in their career than in the country they were elected to serve.

  20. #120
    On April 21st, 2011 at 10:12 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    We’re supposed to spend billions to mitigate a problem that isn’t a problem?

    CO2 is .035% of the atmosphere. Humans account for 17% of that .035%, the rest occurs naturally. One volcanic eruption would undo everything we spend billions to reduce.

    Did I mention that we’re broke and we will have to borrow the money?
    Billions of dollars we don’t have to reduce the output of a gas that makes life possible and we could not live without.
    Mmmmm, sounds like something a marxist would dream up.

    Mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm Barack Hussein Obama mmmm mmmm mmmm

  21. #121
    On April 21st, 2011 at 10:19 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Twice today I have heard the story of the Boeing plant in SC and the Labor Board (?) telling Boeing that they CAN NOT move to SC to avoid the unions in WA.

  22. #122
    On April 21st, 2011 at 11:07 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On April 21st, 2011 at 10:12 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    We’re supposed to spend billions to mitigate a problem that isn’t a problem?

    Of course. Liberals only want to address meaningless non existent problems, because they have no solutions for real ones.

    Same foreign policy approach. Always jump in with both feet where we have no national interest, becasue the areas were we have a national interest involve having resolve.

  23. #123
    On April 21st, 2011 at 11:10 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On April 21st, 2011 at 10:19 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Twice today I have heard the story of the Boeing plant in SC and the Labor Board (?) telling Boeing that they CAN NOT move to SC to avoid the unions in WA.

    This administration will force US compamies to send jobs overseas to protect their union cronies.

    I want John Edwards to give his Two Americas speech again. He has what he predicted, but not in the way he thought.

  24. #124
    On April 21st, 2011 at 11:11 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    The wealthy supporters in attendance at the $35,000 per person fundraiser then applauded wildly, got on their bicycles and pedaled home to their Ecopods…

    Yes Doug, if their house (ecopod) didn’t burn down from an exploding CFL.

    A compact fluorescent light (CFL) on the ceiling burst and started a fire in a home in Hornell, N.Y. December 23, 2010. “Those are the lights everybody’s been telling us to use,” said Joe Gerych, Steuben County Fire Inspector. “It blew up like a bomb. It spattered all over.” Fire Chief Mike Robbins said the blaze destroyed the room where the fire started and everything in it, and the rest of the house suffered smoke and water damage. The Arkport Village Fire Department as well as the North Hornell Fire Department required about 15 minutes to put out the fire.

    Reducing the use of fossil fuels and lowering carbon dioxide emissions are given as reasons, besides cost, for switching to CFLs. But at least 85 percent of the CFLs are produced in China, with India in second place by a wide margin over any other country. Why is it that those who champion CFLs as a “green” solution for saving energy never consider the fossil fuel energy required to ship them 8,000 miles from China or India across the ocean to the U.S.?

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_cfl_fraud.html

  25. #125
    On April 21st, 2011 at 11:23 pm, ChapBix said:

    On April 21st, 2011 at 10:12 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Don’t leave out the effects of a meteor strike on the face of the planet!

  26. #126
    On April 21st, 2011 at 11:28 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Don’t leave out the effects of a meteor strike on the face of the planet!

    If that happens, money won’t matter, ask the dinosaurs.

  27. #127
    On April 21st, 2011 at 11:34 pm, ChapBix said:

    On April 21st, 2011 at 11:11 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    Why is it that those who champion CFLs as a “green” solution for saving energy never consider the fossil fuel energy required to ship them 8,000 miles from China or India across the ocean to the U.S.?

    Nothing these folks do or say makes any real sense which should not surprise us. Par for the course (to use a little golf lingo). It’s all about the symbolism.

  28. #128
    On April 21st, 2011 at 11:38 pm, ChapBix said:

    On April 21st, 2011 at 12:31 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    The science is settled, the debate is over, Obowmao is… (insert euphamistic verb of choice here)

    Does that mean we now know with scientific certainty what is under the zipper on Zipperhead’s skull? Is it is safe to ask what that may be?

  29. #129
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 4:20 am, tbear44 said:

    $4 gas under Bush: Media goes nuts about it. $4 gas under Oblama: Media pretty much silent.

  30. #130
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 5:35 am, JHSII said:

    $4 gas under Bush: Media goes nuts about it. $5 gas under Oblama: Media pretty much silent.

    Minor correction.

  31. #131
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 6:33 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    Is this a threat? “If you believe in Global Warming I’ll allow gas prices to lower”?

    Did he announce that he’s punishing us for not following his spooky earth worshiping religion?

    Personally I believe in Andrew Klavan: The New Clothes has no Emperor

  32. #132
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 6:52 am, fuseman said:

    Why aren’t we hearing the GOP push for drilling in ANWR?

    gravitas.

  33. #133
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 8:42 am, tarpon said:

    IS he really this stupid? Seems so.

  34. #134
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 10:00 am, rayman said:

    Why aren’t we hearing the GOP push for drilling in ANWR?

    Perhaps the GOP WANTS high gas prices to hang around thru the election cycle…

  35. #135
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 10:29 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    We don’t have any real energy problems. Or any real economic problems.
    ***
    What we do have is a really ginormous socialist / marxist / communist Comrade Obama (and his ilk) problem. They operate on the NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE theory. It helps them dupe the fools in our country and lets them advance their goal of changing the U.S.A. into their new United Socialist States of Amerikka. Just more red herrings and unicorn farts to hide the real agenda. As they invent their next strawman crisis.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  36. #136
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 10:37 am, spaceycakes said:

    a quaint British exclamation: “Codswallop!”

    My father in law is an old RAF man…he likes to say
    ‘never drop a clanger; lower it slowly to the ground.’

  37. #137
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 10:39 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    Obama, speaking at a San Francisco event for donors climate cycle deniers

    My new name for these kool-aid kwaffers.

  38. #138
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 10:43 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    Don’t leave out the effects of a meteor strike on the face of the planet!
    If that happens, money won’t matter, ask the dinosaurs.

    Yes, dinosaur money was virtually worthless after that.

  39. #139
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 10:53 am, Ty85719 said:

    Gas Prices are High Because Climate Change Deniers Refuse to Tackle Global Warming

    So what he is really trying to say is that the price is contrived and artificially manipulated.

    Well, at least he is admitting to it

  40. #140
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 11:31 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Via a HotAir story by “Rovin”, I read a very interesting article by Charles Wallace about the work of Dan Dicker.

    It got me thinking and researching, and … I think I’ve answered
    a question that I’ve had for a long time:

    Why did gas prices DROP BY MORE THAN 60% in the 3.5 months between September 16, 2008 and January 2, 2009?

    Please read my post and the additional material I posted in the first few comments:

    The Real Reason Gas Prices Are Soaring

  41. #141
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 11:42 am, rightisright said:

    Does bho actually think we don’t know why gas is so high?

    He knows us on the right know why gas prices are high, it’s the illiterate and indoctrinated on the left that bo is concerned about keeping illiterate and naive…at least until next election.

    ——-

    It is your fault bho and your team that is causing this.

    He is very well aware of that also, after all he a community organizer and nothing more. Bo is a MARXIST doing his best to destroy our country.

  42. #142
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 11:55 am, rightisright said:

    IS he really this stupid?

    Bo is not stupid, not the brightest bulb in the room, but not stupid, just a MARXIST doing what he needs to do and will do despite what ever is said on the right or middle.

    He does as he wants every time flipping you the bird, he could care less what you think or want.

  43. #143
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 4:31 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    Our Blithering Idiot In Chuef doesn’t know that oil doesn’t grow on trees, like his cash and benefits do.

  44. #144
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 5:49 pm, herself said:

    Well, gee Doug, don’t you realize that Mother Nature KNEW we were going to have higher gas rates and cooled off as a result?

    {O,o}

  45. #145
    On April 22nd, 2011 at 6:19 pm, z_montana said:

    Remember what happened in 2008; gullible and ignorant people voted. Now that Obama is again in campaign mode, he is obviously pandering to his base. It still amazes me how this guy can lie with such a straight face.

  46. #146
    On April 23rd, 2011 at 10:46 am, shimauma2 said:

    It still amazes me how this guy can lie with such a straight face.

    prolly because barry hussien is deluded into believing everything he spews out of his narcissistic pie hole.

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