Just thought it was worth looking back at promises made in 2008, when then candidate Obama laid out his plan for preventing oil prices from rising under his watch:
How is that hopey-changey thing working out for you?
For me and my 90 mile round trip commute, not so good.
Update:
Via Gateway Pundit:
In December the Obama Administration issued a massive new ban on offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Now Shell Oil has announced that due to Obama’s radical EPA, they will be forced to stop drilling off the coast of Alaska. A village of 250 people 70 miles away may be harmed by emissions.
FOX News reported:Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight.
Shell has spent five years and nearly $4 billion dollars on plans to explore for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The leases alone cost $2.2 billion. Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby says obtaining similar air permits for a drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico would take about 45 days. He’s especially frustrated over the appeal board’s suggestion that the Arctic drill would somehow be hazardous for the people who live in the area. “We think the issues were really not major,” Slaiby said, “and clearly not impactful for the communities we work in.”
The closest village to where Shell proposed to drill is Kaktovik, Alaska. It is one of the most remote places in the United States. According to the latest census, the population is 245 and nearly all of the residents are Alaska natives. The village, which is 1 square mile, sits right along the shores of the Beaufort Sea, 70 miles away from the proposed off-shore drill site.
The EPA’s appeals board ruled that Shell had not taken into consideration emissions from an ice-breaking vessel when calculating overall greenhouse gas emissions from the project. Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Meanwhile Obama says he sees no “magic bullet” to bring down gas prices.
How about drilling?
This is all “according” to his master plan. He has admitted himself that prices will go up. He doesn’t care, he never did. All he cares about is re-distributing the wealthy’s money to those that are too lazy to do it for themselves. He’s a loser on a grand scale…
bush and cheney=big oil. prices always go up. fact of life. talk to the GOP about defending tax cuts for the rich and pointing fingers at everyone else. make the fat cats pay their share. doesn’t matter what the tax rate is if you don’t pay anything because you are rich. quit sucking up to the rich people they are going to roll over you whether you lick their butts or not
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