Obama: Gas Prices are High Because Climate Change Deniers Refuse to Tackle Global Warming
**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.
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Oh, brother…..
Impeach early, impeach often.
The science is settled, the debate is over, Obowmao is… (insert euphamistic verb of choice here)
Fiction, it`s not just for breakfast anymore !
Why aren’t we hearing the GOP push for drilling in ANWR?
Dear Sock Puppet:
Listen you blithering idiot, gas prices are high and going higher because the US Dollar is loosing value as we speak and there is a 15% reduction in oil from the Gulf – You are the problem and take the blame like a freaking man for once.
It is a ‘huge national security imperative’ to give bho the boot in 2012! How in the name of goodness can bho open his mouth so many times and lies just spew out? Does bho actually think we don’t know why gas is so high? It is your fault bho and you team that is causing this.
L
Isn’t it nice that GE made a 77% tax free profit. Cronyism at it’s finest!
No. He isn’t the problem, the ones pulling the SockPuppets strings are. Who or what to blame has been predetermined by the stringpullers. He’s only here to pronounce the blame.
He wanted $5 gallon gas. Now it looks like $6-7/gallon by July.
All is going according to plan.
That a 77% increase in profit for the 1st quarter. Crony capitalism should really be called what it is, fascism.
hawkeye54 said:
Yep and I have friends in Cali in the trucking business and fuel prices plus the cost of all the rules and new regulations is driving them out of business. Now let see how food, clothing etc gets to super markets and malls with no trucks to deliver.
Euphemistic verb of choice.
The really scarey part? There are actually people who can vote, walk among us and drive who believe this nonsense. For the lack of a better term I call them, interchangeably, Zombies or Democrats .
Climate change deniers drive pickup trucks, shoot helpless little animals and grill over mesquite coals.
Because they are totally consumed with fighting Trump which has distracted them from fighting us conservatives. It is so hard standing idly by making tough speeches but doing nothing.
As is the case with Gold. Not so much a representation that “the price of Gold is skyrocketing!” ( rather our fiat currency/IOU’s are devaluating )
Which is something the pResident can control.
Putting our children and grandchildren at risk? Really, Mr. President? Are you sure you want to bring that up as you drown them in debt?
Or is that deficit? I know that confuses you.
Why do you think they’re allowing Mexican trucks in?
But not until we can make jets and tanks that run on unicorn farts.
Drill Here, Drill NOW!
stillontheroad,
To wit;
http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2011/04/21/86904
Please to note headline on Daddy Warbucks’ newspaper! Lol
Not to worry, EPA is providing brand spankin’ new emission control mufflers to freakin’ old Mexican trucks crossing the border @ $1600 a pop (thank you NAFTA), so they can comply with our standards and then they can fill the vacuum right here in Mexifornia and many other states.
Look for ‘em on an interstate near you!
Not enough of them? We got plenty of illegals ready and rarin’ to go!
They all probabaly get federal subsidies for fuel too.
Liars use useful idiots to carry their lies to the unwary.
Now now be somewhat respectful of The Great Pretender. He played the game of make believe, wearing his Heart Like a Crown.
Euphemistic verb of choice.
One frontal lobe short of a brain?
I wounder when all the ‘poor’ here in America are going to start crying because they can’t afford gas? When this happens will bho see to it they get a ‘gas card’ paid for by taxpayers? You can bet they are going to do this. Gotta get all those votes for all the free bho stash!
L
Great video. Bill Whittle explaining how to balance the budget: “Eat the Rich!”
I demand to see Obama’s grades. No grade school grad could be so ignorant.
Crickets: chirp! chirp!
No one who can do anything is listening.
and that meme doesn’t fit SockPuppets plans for us.
Once gas hits $10 a gallon, and ruined the economy, he’ll nationalize the oil industry for our sake, gas will go back down to $5 a gallon and Obummer will be hailed as our savior and in joyous thanksgiving be offered the office of president for life.
Which in all of his humility will accept.
Naturally.
#23 s/b wonder not wounder
L
Food Stamps?
Check.
Gas Stamps!!
Coming.
More dependants on our wonderful Central Committee.
My brother-in-law had a good take on this. If we don’t drill in ANWR or in the Gulf, we can drain the OPEC countries of their oil. When that runs out, we will have ANWR and the Gulf oil and no one else will.
Of course, this assumes that the world’s supply of oil is pretty limited. I don’t believe that. I think there is MUCH more oil than the “experts” believe. Plus, what about the current situation? I don’t want to be stuck at $5-$10 per gallon gas for the rest of my life. Screw the socialists and their “we all must sacrifice” BS. Drill NOW!
but, if i agree to the hoax of global warming, they want to take away my car, and give me one that starts my house on fire. if i agree to global warming, i need to find a job in china, where all the wind turbines are made. so, how about obama man up, if moochelle will give him his jewels back, and admit sarah was right, again, drill baby drill!!!
They are the same, aren’t they?
Nice theory. Doesn’t account for all the Carribean oil fields in which the PRC is investing, what the Russians potentially have in Sibera, and other places worldwide.
Oil is not as limited as some would have us believe. Even if Gulf oil does run out.
If you inherited your parents property, but couldn’t stand the house they’d built on it, you might be inclined to raze the old structure to the ground so that you could put up something else more to your liking.
This is how Hope-a-Dope sees the economic and social institutions of the USA. He doesn’t try to hide the fact that he’s ashamed of this country – especially its preeminent place in the world – and he’s not interested in fixing it so much as rebuilding it to his liking.
Forcibly wrenching America’s energy economy from fossil fuels to pixie dust is part of this “creative destruction” process, just like crushing the capitalist economic system under a mountain of debt is.
The man wants his omelette. Our prosperous and successful way of life is an egg to him.
When people talk about Nero fiddling while Rome burned, what many of them don’t realize is that the Emperor already had the architectural plans drawn up for his new palace and the site selected for the same: right in the same parts of the city that were being reduced to ash.
One of the reasons the fire went on for days is because there was precious little Imperial interest in committing any resources to putting it out.
Occam’s razor tells me that when I watch a man and his associates laying waste to our economy and ultimately our way of life, Neolithic incompetence is a more likely explanation than malevolence. But after a while – when the incompetents act in such a uniformly destructive manner that you think they’d be capable just once of doing the right thing even for the wrong reasons yet fail to do so – you can’t help but to be drawn to the conclusion that the stupidity you’re witnessing is stupidity with a purpose.
Hope-a-Dope and his party don’t see anything wrong with America becoming a third world country, as long as they’re the ones ruling it. Because as long as they have power they believe they can exempt themselves from the general misery that will ensue.
That at the same time evil America will no longer be able to project its loathsome influence in the world will be just the cherry on top for them – a two-fer, as it were.
More pointing of fingers by the Deflector in Chief. When will he take responsibility for his actions? Better yet, when will the media ask him to take responibility for his actions?
Its not Bush, its not global warming skeptics, its not Republicans, its not racists, its your administration. It is you. Be a man and stop blaming everyone else.
For a guy with such huge ears he sure is tone deaf isn’t he? Persistent yes, obstinate yes. Perceptive? not so much.
the GOP must push to drill, but I do not think they will. GOP/DEM all the same
So can we stop giving food stamps to overweight recipients because, you know, they just keep denying that their poor eating habits are making them fat?
I really can’t stand this POTUS.
Actually, he is. But, remember, he only regurgitates what he’s been told or programed to say.
Nice. Pixie dust.
Doug Powers says:
Huge factor. NatGas traders line up every Spring for a piece of that action. Buying Mar/Apr/May Futures Contracts praying for the windfall that comes w/ cooler temps.
And it needen’t be “The Day After Tomorrow Scenario” for the money-god to take a dump on you. Just a few deg’s below median temps DRIVES consumption. Of course heating oil as well. Doug don’t miss much!
Yeah, and the Left’s ultimate response would eventually be direct government food production, manufacturing and distribution along with community dining halls, because only it knows what is fit for us to eat and wants to be sure its provides to us and we eat it.
Dear Mr President,
Gasoline prices are high, and going higher, due to the reckless spending path you have set for the federal government. As the Federal Reserve monetizes this debt, the oil producing countries are simply going to need more dollars for a barrel of oil.
Thanks for the massive price inflation, and possible economic destruction, your failed economic policies are leading us all to.
Regulus said:
The whole post is well worth the read, that IMHO, most notably. Thanks Reg!
All is going according to plan.
Not to be confused with the “deficit deniers” on capitol hill.
Count me as an “Obama denier”.
Obama blames speculators, I thought it was warming deniers but I digress, for rising U.S. fuel prices: What he really meant to say was:
Counter revolutionary forces are trying to sabotage my great leap forward and hinder the progress of my 5 year plan.
Obama – The Climate Reality Denier.
Obama better realize this, and I’m sure he does:
If gas prices are over $4 a gallon during the next election cycle, he won’t get re-elected Period
Correct, speculators ( those evil capitalists ) that are speculating you ain’t gonna’ due jack squat about applying so much as a BAND-AID to the sucking chest wound and in fact, are calling for more leeches!
Very well said.
Why?
Agreed.
We just vary a bit on the length of the “while”.
I reached the conclusion of purposful malevolence earlier than now.
Again, excellent post!
If I knew a man who was about to enter into a duel but who had contracted an opportunistic and potentially lethal infection, the only reason I’d be against him first trying to overcome the infection would be if I wanted the other guy to win the duel.
Wonders never cease, I agree with this, even if the GOP gives a lame candidate like last time.
granite said:
Same here but the question I still have is:
To what end? Who benefits from this? For what purpose other than hatred for the country of their birth.
No, he thinks his $35,000 per person donors don’t know why gas is so high. And he’s probably right, because they’re as up-close-and-personal with the gas pumps as Obama is.
Actually, if gas prices exceed $7 a gallon before the next election cycle, and it goes down to less than $5, for which he’ll take credit, might actually
help him get re-elected, depending on what else is going on.
I’ve never underestimated the shortsightedness and memory of many of the American voters and political parties prepared to take advantage of that.
The only problem with your analogy is that both duelists have their guns trained on us. You’re right about the GOP having a lethal infection, though.
I agree. The theory is that there are vast pools of underground oil that are constantly being thrown near the earth’s crust by centrifugal force. As more cracks develop due to continental drift, oil will be forced up through them. So, in 500 or 1000 years, Brazil and The Phillipines could be the new Middle East, as far as oil is concerned. The current oil fields would dry up because the rifts they rely on get closed due to continental drift. In other words, there is much more oil that previously thought.
It sure does seem like that makes sense when you think of the geology of this planet.
My father pointed out that people blame Big Oil for high prices and begrudge them their 8% profit, yet nobody complains about the 40 cents per gallon in taxes. Simultaneously, people love Apple and can’t wait to throw money at them while they are make an 85% profit off each iPad.
Apparently demagoguery works.
I see your point, but if gas ever got that high, the “drill here, drill now”, will get control of the debate. I don’t see Obama recovering from something like that, unless he were to physically start drilling in ANWR himself.
hawkeye54 said:
Agreed, and this is why I favor Trump. Well his “bullrushing” approach anyway? P’BO is playing this ( as he always has ) like he “still has the momentum”. Precisely why he’s always willing to bet the American Public, double or nothing?
Particularly on the Energy issue, Trump adeptly cuts that off at the knees! Simply by saying, “You Mr. pResident, you are the problem!
PBO: ( WTF? )
Yup. Demogagary works. And I hate Apple. Will never willingly own any of its products.
I just heard on the on hour news bho is off to NV from CA. Wonder how much fuel and carbons all his jetting around is costing? bho never spends more than two days in dc since elected.
L
No. If “drill here, drill now” goes wholly supported by the public, Obama will STILL take control of the debate and throw his environmental supporters under the bus. All he has to do is sign EOs and get the ball rolling with lifting or suspending rules and regs for domestic oil exploration and production. He will take advantage, as president he’s got most, if not all the marbles, or at least his string-pullers do.
P’BO.., ‘work’? You mean physical labor… Surely you jest Man! Otay, I’m a sport. Send him up there with a pick & shovel and have him report back at the last sign of hypothermia!
I thought that was baloney but now I’m not sure. The geologic and engineering phenomenon of liquifaction is integral to this I’m sure. Now if we could just get dangerous and criminal politicians out of power…
Acid rain, chlorofluorocarbons, Global Warning aka Climate Change, etc have all been superhyped end of the world catastrophies caused by man that have all turned out to be pure BS pushed on us by marxists.
Get rid of marxists and we will save the world.
Gas prices are high because we have Doh!bama in charge.
He should have kept his day job as a community organizer.
That’s the rub, right there since they control both parties and Americans have an affinity for nose holding while voting.
Little man can destroy the ecomomy and install a form of martial law. The best way to do this is break down the energy industry first. That will cause an economic cascade of failures from banking to housing and beyond. At that point we are looking at civil war….. but Leftists will still be preoccupied with global warming and calling 911 for their McNuggets.
As POTUS, P’BOs ‘work’ is limited to his occasionally listening to his daily briefings as to the meme of the day, to speaking engagements, media interviews, and signing documents.
His only real work may one day lead to momentary writer’s cramp from all the docs he has to sign as president.
There’s the question of the year.
And it needs to be answered before the primary season starts.
The only way that gas prices would come down from say $7 per gallon to $5 per gallon before November 2012 would be if Obama promised the oil companies something for helping him get elected. But the way he lies about “big oil” (whatever that is) I just don’t see them going along with it. Hell, I see “big oil” actually getting together and keeping prices high so that the republican challenger just has to look at the camera and say, “Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?”
Bye, bye, Barky!
(I may need to write a new song for The People’s Karaoke.)
Ironic that the Marxists all say they want to “save the children” but their unwarrented hysteria over DDT has killed millions of children attacked by malaria around the world.
Liberalism, and Marxism need to be banned and the best approach is the Fair Tax coupled with the 12% GDP Balanced Budget amendment. Those two things alone will gut 80% of the leverage of the Left. Then if they won’t abide by that, they can fight a real revolution and we’ll see who comes out on top.
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One can only hope.
And pray.
We can’t take another term of P’BHO.
That is, if we can even survive another 1-1/2 years of him now.
That was funny! You need to start writing bho speeches!
L
Without his teleprompter his real genius just shines…..
He can shine when the discussion is about community organizing, campaigning, the teachings of Islam and Marxism.
He seems to be able to speak eloquently and passionately on these subjects without TOTUS.
Other important issues, not at all.
A lobotomy sure looks tempting right about now.
It’s really disgusting how this idiot and his fluffers are harping on an utterly BS issue like this when the friggin’ country is doing its last swirl down the toilet bowl of insolvency.
I’ve noticed the same thing. Those are the things he cares about. He fumbles and stumbles when addressing everything else.
Paper or plastic?
Global Warming? Okay I will accept it…… when I see the science that supports it.
I am sure that will be forthcoming soon…. right after OBama’s academic records and other sealed data is released.
It’s not belief; it’s science….
Wow. What a great impression of Dear Leader. It felt like I was right there as I was reading that.
Let me be perfectly clear, I um, may not know what I’m talking about but, my,
uh…..Doh!
JFTR, -no- President can control energy prices w/ total autonomy. Nor prices in general. But when you have a pResident ( as Regulus notes ) doing everything within his power to assure they do nothing but spiral higher..?
Lib/Progs should take pride in this. The first time in our history a tinfoil-oil conspiracy theory actually lived up to the hype? Well done!
You forgot to preface that with “Let me be perfectly clear”.
Sorry about that Southpaw.
Gee, the heck with gas prices going up…. a cold midwestern spring means higher corn prices…. were did I put those pesky carbon credits????
Maybe instead of piling on the global warming BS, bho should put his compassion into practice and visit the tornado damaged areas instead of sucking up to wealthy CA contributors. How is it that those RICH people have any money to donate to his campaign? I thought those evil RICH people would be protecting their wealth from higher taxes. Guess not all wealth is created equal. The rich get to fund the stupid and the rest of us get the tab for excessive gov spending.
Someone please help me understand: If the way we currently procure oil domestically is anathema because it is environmentally damaging, not to mention the actual use of oil as a environmental threat, why would it then be OK to buy it from Brazil if they are just going to use the same techniques we would use to obtain oil? Isn’t the environment just as damaged? Or is the idea that at least if we stop drilling and only purchase from Brazil then at least ONE of the countries isn’t drilling so that saves the environment to that fractional degree?
I seriously don’t understand this man and every day I grow more and more apprehensive with him at the helm of ANYTHING.
It’s beyond disgusting. We’re borrowing $4 billion dollars a day. We already owe $14 trillion dollars. Future obligations total more than all the assets of the planet. We are entering unknown territory.
Comparisons have been made to the two worst economic disasters, Zimbabwe and the Weimar Republic. What’s coming will be massively worse.
The cliff is coming, Barack Hussein Obama has his foot to the floor.
Instead of negotiating about slowing down, how about getting him out of the drivers seat?
Bingo. Well said. Now can we get John Wayne to wade into the WH and Congress and clean them out?
LOL. This guy sounds like the original robo-voice on NOAA Weather Radio. Annoying to no end. And don’t get me started on his whistling “esses”.
Congress needs to pass legislation prohibiting any releases from the Strategic Oil Reserve for any non-National Security reasons. High gas prices is NOT a reason to dip into the reserve.
That would be Joe Biden.
mmmmmmm yesssss master. Master gooood. Master nice to his people. Gooood master.
Virginia Patriot said:
Yahtzee! Add in all the various financial mumbo-jumbo “derivatives”, Options, ( futures contracts on those Options… ) and they eclipse the value of said Orb many fold.
It’s what we’re bumping up against? Financially we’re at a saturation point where our global economies -combined- aren’t worth the debt ( and various ) fin. instruments we’ve written ‘against’ them!
Gas prices are high because Obama and the Democrats are doing everything they can to ensure that gas prices skyrocket, that housing prices continue to tumble, that food prices continue to rise.
Before a birth there are always labor pains…..
Obama knows his audience; Only San Franciscans are that stupid.
No reason to waste time now with ANWAR since it would never be allowed (Obama would veto). When the GOP wins the Senate and Executive in 2012, that is the time to make it happen.
Tapping the rich under the table…for Obama, proof that they really have more to give if they can pony up for him.
I wonder though, why to these wealthy, supposedly intelligent people, require an excuse to fork over their money for an idea gone awry? They can listen to the blatherskite make really lame protestations that any common man would know instinctively as nonsense, yet they flock to him and open their wallets.
There can be only one logical reason…they expect to get a “return” for their investment. Don’t dare call it a “quid pro quo” though…or risk getting lectured by the professor about free speech, and other constitutional rights he is so impassioned about….