Energy? What's that?
Image via WikipediaPresident Obama wants to cut oil imports by a third after telling Brazil he wants to be their best customer. Cellulosic ethanol won't cut it, and neither will talking out of both sides of your teleprompter.Does anyone really believe what Obama says about energy? I am not even sure the anti energy left believes him anymore. In the areas where we are allowed to drill you can be sure the anti energy left will be doing their best to delay and make costly any effort to produce oil and gas.
In a Georgetown University address that echoed President Jimmy Carter's "moral equivalent of war" speech in 1977, the president on Wednesday outlined his plan to reduce oil imports by one-third over the next decade.
Carter, too, set the goal of reducing oil imports by a third through conservation, increased fuel efficiency, more use of ethanol and other alternative energy sources, and the wearing of more sweaters.
There was nothing new in Obama's version. It didn't work then. It won't work now.
It's hard to square the president's words with a seven-year offshore drilling ban in effect off both coasts and Alaska's continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico, with a de facto moratorium covering the rest.
Is this the same President Obama who told the Brazilians: "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"?
In his Georgetown speech, Obama said oil companies ignored the vast areas his administration has placed off-limits to oil and natural gas development, complaining that oil companies haven't exploited the oil leases they've already been granted.
But leases are only an option to explore, not a map of where recoverable oil is. It's not the government's job to say look here for oil, but not there.
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell recently criticized the Obama administration for not issuing an air quality permit to a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell to drill exploratory wells on two leases in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast.
"The other Arctic nations are moving ahead without us," he pointed out. "Only the United States, which is sitting on the largest untapped, technically recoverable resources and has the greatest environmental oversight, is sitting this one out."
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When it comes to energy, Obama has quickly lost his credibility as have his cohorts on the left.
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