Well folks, since we should be able, by now, to fully recognize our president as being one who never willingly accepts any level of responsibility himself, it should come as no surprise then that when it comes to his formulating of anything that would even remotely resemble an actual energy policy, or his rationale for what's really behind the price of gas, now creeping ever nearer to four dollars a gallon, and actually now having surpassed it some areas, Barry has decided that the best thing for him to do is to, as usual, lie through his teeth and blame the Republicans. Recently our "Dear Beloved Leader" has been busying himself making all manner of claims about how, just because of him, we have now boosted levels of domestic oil output to new highs and have become less dependent on foreign oil suppliers. That's what he would like us to believe. However, according to non-partisan energy observers, as well as his many critics, he is far from deserving any amount of credit for whatever increase in domestic energy production that may now taking place. What he is far more deserving of, is nothing but contempt for his being so eager to throw vast amounts of taxpayer money toward fairytale green technology and redirecting scarce resources toward businesses like Solyndra who, very shortly thereafter, go tango uniform (tits up).
What brings me to making this point is the fact that our "Dear Beloved Leader" recently spoke to a crowd in Miami, just this past Thursday in fact, about growing concern over rising gas prices. Today, the national average for one gallon of unleaded gasoline is $3.57, which is 18 cents higher than just a month ago, according to AAA. In Florida, where it was that "The ONE" recently spoke, the average price per gallon is $3.68. Now keep in mind here that one of those things that Mr. "Hope and Change" inherited from George Bush, which he always so fond of reminding us, was gas at $1.83 a gallon. This silly little speech comes less than a month after Barry outright rejected, pretty much for no other than purely political reasons, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would have run from Canada through the midwest to the Gulf of Mexico. An action that he himself took, but one that, again, wasn't his fault, and was blamed on those corrupt Republicans. And in taking credit for something that he had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with, Barry said that "Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years," Barry told the audience at the University of Miami, "That’s why we have a record number of oil rigs operating right now – more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world combined."
This is what Barry always does, because we have witnessed it first hand countless times over the last three years. He's nothing more than an opportunist who continues to either completely misrepresent, or simply lie outright, about the policies that he has implemented while he, at the same time, goes around claiming credit for that which has resulted either from the actions taken by someone else, or that has occurred naturally with no action being taken by anybody, let alone him. And a perfect example of this tactic is the fact that any increase in domestic drilling that has taken place has been almost entirely in areas for which the Barry "Almighty" administration exercised no authority, since oil production on federal land declined by 11 percent in fiscal year 2011. That according to a study by the Institute on Energy Research (IER), a free-market energy think tank. Where oil production has increased is on state lands, having increased that year by 14 percent and there has also been an increase of 12 percent on private lands. "A lot of the wells that were supposed to be drilled weren’t because of the moratorium," Dan Kish, senior vice president for policy at the IER, told internet news service, CNSNews.com. "Drilling is up in the U.S. on lands he has no say over. On lands he has all the say over, drilling is down."
In his bragging to the Miami crowd the other day, about how it is that under his brilliant leadership our dependence on foreign oil is down, Barry said, "We’re making progress on this front." Adding, with a level of arrogance possessed by few other than himself, "In 2010, our dependence on foreign oil was under 50 percent for the first time in 30 years. In 2011, the United States relied less on foreign oil than in any of the last 16 years. Because of the investments we’ve made, the use of clean, renewable energy in this country has nearly doubled, and thousands of Americans have jobs because of it." He went on to say, "We’re taking every possible action to safely develop a near hundred-year supply of natural gas, something that experts believe will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade." You know, the ease with which this guy can lie is more than just a little unsettling. Because while there is some truth to what he says, at least as far as our reduced dependence, the fact is that he has had nothing whatsoever to do with it. And I think most us have now come to fully recognize as pure fantasy his continuing claims about any possible benefit to be reaped from investments, or taxpayer subsidies, made in "clean renewable energy", because they have not produced anything other than millions of taxpayer dollars having been thrown down a very deep hole.
And anyone who bothers to do even a little research finds out very quickly just how blatantly we're being lied to. Because, you see, by spending even the briefest of time over at FactCheck.org one very quickly discovers that our declining dependence on foreign-oil dependence has actually been underway since 2005, so I guess you could say that too would be another one of those things that Barry inherited from President George W. Bush. Also while at FactCheck.org one has access to the same Energy Information Administration (EIA) report from 2011 that said, "There is no single explanation for the decline in U.S. oil import dependence since 2005. Rather, the trend results from a variety of factors. Chief among those is a significant contraction in consumption. U.S. oil product deliveries declined by 1.7 million barrels per day (bbl/d) to 19.1 bbl/d in 2010, from 20.8 million bbl/d in 2005." "This decline partly reflects the downturn in the underlying economy after the financial crisis of 2008," the EIA report continued. PolitiFact.org, another fact check organization, cited Barry’s obvious boasts of reduced dependence on foreign oil as being only, at best, "half true." "But as PolitiFact has reported before, deep-water production comes after years of exploration and preparation," the group reported. "It does not happen overnight and gains made during Obama’s term so far have roots in previous administrations and economic difficulties that have had factories and households paring back."
Barry’s insistence that he supports an "all of the above" strategy for energy production is not evident by his actions, so says Mr. Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute. "Today, 85 percent of the outer-continental shelf has been placed off limits once again. When he took office, there were proposals on the table to open up opportunities in those areas," Gerard told CNSNews.com. "Today, in the Rocky Mountains, the leasing has gone down 70 percent since his taking office. We now have 10 federal agencies, departments, looking at the technology of hydraulic fracturing, which has really opened up this vast game-changer both in natural gas and oil in the United States." He added, "The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, the proposed increase in taxes, those are all inconsistent with the verbal message of an all-the-above bring along domestic supply." The bottom line here is that we have now have as our president an individual who has demonstrated, any number of times over the course of the last three years, that when it comes to lying, he makes old "Slick Willie" Clinton look like an amateur. If there is one thing we know for certain it's that his guy will lie about absolutely anything and everything. The very obvious fact of the matter is that he is determined to kill any and all attempts at drilling in this country and has demonstrated, very clearly, that he has no interest whatsoever in making any attempt that will result in reducing the price of gas.
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