Sarah Palin Hammers Obama Over His Continued Lack Of Coherent Energy Policy

by gary on Monday, January 25, 2010 18:48 EDT

After slamming Barack Obama last year, in a Facebook note that was favorably quoted around the world, Sarah Palin is once again asking Barack Obama just what is he thinking.

While Obama has wasted an entire year pushing an unconstitutional government take over of health care, and globe trotting… chasing Olympic glory, Nobel Peace Prizes, all the while bowing to the world’s leaders and apologizing for America’s very existence, he is neglecting his job..

Obama also took time to try and garner support for the climate change crowd, further trying to promote the global warming fairy tale, the greatest lie ever told.

As we have written over and over, Obama and his cronies stand to make billions off of the global warming scam with a carbon credit trading scheme. And of course, Obama had also hoped to line the pockets of all of his corrupt Chicago buddies, by bringing the Olympics home.

Of course, while the most corrupt President in our nation’s history was trying to enrich his cronies, he was totally and completely ignoring his real job. First and foremost, Obama has totally failed on national security issues.

We’ve had no less than three major terrorist attacks on American soil since Obama took the reigns of Government. In a sane nation this man would have already been removed from office and replaced with someone who was competent.

The other important thing Obama has neglected while he has been more interested in enriching his buddies and feeding his massive ego, is the economy. To say we have a problem with the economy would be an understatement, for sure.

The biggest neglect though has been energy. Obama and his band of communists have no coherent energy policy whatsoever. Oh, they talk about mythical green jobs, but that’s all they are a myth. Pie in the sky.

Energy is the lifeblood of any economy. We can’t run without it. In our world, energy = oil. It’s a fact of life, and no amount of wishing that away is going to change things.

With that said, Sarah Palin again asks Obama just where his head is at:

Where’s the Oil in Our National Energy Policy?

America’s energy challenges are getting more and more serious every day, and yet the Obama administration just doesn’t get it. Please see this informative article that sheds light on one aspect of the president’s problem. It starts by explaining our energy demand will increase, and oil will be part of that demand.

Well, what do you know? The Obama administration, whose entire energy posture going back into the presidential campaign has been both ideologically and practically stridently anti-oil, both as an industry and as a form of energy, has suddenly become “concerned” about China’s oil grab.

This is, to say the least, disingenuous.

The U.S. government under Barack Obama has yet to acknowledge once, in spite of widely held estimates, that oil will continue to account for 40% of world energy demand 25 years from now — this while total world energy demand will increase by 50%, at least.

Read the rest here. I look forward to hopefully hearing President Obama acknowledge America’s need to ramp up domestic energy production, including oil and natural gas developments, during Wednesday’s State of the Union address. Let’s hope his advisers advise him accordingly.

- Sarah Palin

The report Sarah is talking about is from Investor’s Business Daily and is included below:


White House Needs New Look At Energy

By MICHAEL J. ECONOMIDES

It was a rubbing-the-eyes-in-disbelief headline even from an administration whose energy secretary, Steven Chu, suggested that America’s energy dilemma could be solved by painting roofs white, and whose interior secretary, Ken Salazar, talked of garnering 3,000 megawatts of wind-power capacity off the East Coast. (The current total electricity capacity from all U.S. energy sources is about 1,000 megawatts.)

Under the title “U.S. raises concern over China oil policy,” David Shear, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told the House Armed Services Committee on Jan. 13:

We are pursuing intensive dialogue with the Chinese on the subject of energy security, in which we have raised our concerns about Chinese efforts to lock up oil reserves with long-term contracts.”

Shear was responding to Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, who said he was “worried that the Chinese were aggressively buying up oil all over the world and might not share it with other countries in the future.”

Well, what do you know? The Obama administration, whose entire energy posture going back into the presidential campaign has been both ideologically and practically stridently anti-oil, both as an industry and as a form of energy, has suddenly become “concerned” about China’s oil grab.

This is, to say the least, disingenuous.

The U.S. government under Barack Obama has yet to acknowledge once, in spite of widely held estimates, that oil will continue to account for 40% of world energy demand 25 years from now — this while total world energy demand will increase by 50%, at least.

Nor has the administration, mired in Kyoto and Copenhagen global climate rhetoric, acknowledged that fossil fuels, oil, gas and coal will still account by then for over 85% of world energy demand, a largely unchanged contribution from what it is today.

Instead there is constant rhetoric about solar (the president’s favorite during the campaign), wind and “advanced biofuels” which, when combined, are not likely to account for more than 1% or 2% of the world energy demand over the next several decades.

In a Newsweek editorial last April 4, Chu expressed the administration’s energy philosophy and policy: “We must move beyond oil because the science on global warming is clear and compelling: Greenhouse-gas emissions, primarily from fossil fuels, have started to change our climate. We have a responsibility to future generations to reduce those emissions to spare our planet the worst of the possible effects.”

The Americans should not be surprised by the Chinese moves. A far more pragmatic nation, China is acutely aware that energy, in short domestic supply, will be the “choke point” in its future development unless resources are secured throughout the world.

That’s why the very capable Chinese oil companies — CNPC, Sinopec and CNOOC — have fanned out in dozens of countries, making hundreds of billions of dollars of oil and gas investments, including in America’s backyard, Argentina, Venezuela and Canada and a country America presumably dominates, Iraq. Their quest does not preclude unsavory countries such as Sudan or Iran.

The major Chinese oil companies have the full support of the Chinese government and, very importantly, they are admired and praised by the vast majority of Chinese people.

In discussions with Chinese intellectuals, government officials and company executives, the Chinese are often incredulous, all asking essentially the same question: Why is America letting us have a free and uncontested ride in all these energy ventures?

In contrast, American “Big Oil,” (ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron — the only companies really able to play along and compete with the Chinese) not only are not supported or encouraged by the U.S. government, they’ve been routinely vilified by politicians. To the sizeable portion of the American public that’s unaware of the role energy plays in the modern world, they are the devil incarnate.

What the world is witnessing is the largest peaceful transfer of power in history. Energy means power, and while the U.S. is consumed by environmental ideologies and climate rhetoric, it is committing economic hara-kiri in the process. China, riding on energy acquisitions with little competition, will propel itself into the economic stratosphere.

The U.S. should be concerned, but doing something about it will require an unlikely sea of cultural change in the Obama administration.

• Economides is a professor at the University of Houston and the author of “Energy: China’s Choke Point.”

This is quite outrageous, to say the least! This is a direct threat to America’s national security. A threat just as sure as the one we face from al Qaeda or any other terror group. In fact, it’s a quite larger threat, as this threat is being carried out, and there is absolutely nothing that can be done to stop it from happening.

Look, this is pretty simple. Anyone with a pulse understands that no matter what, we are going to need oil and natural gas into the foreseeable future. In fact, natural gas can be a true alternative to burning so much gasoline in automobiles and trucks. It’s a real clean and green fuel.

Energy independence is a national security issue. That should go without saying. Securing our energy supply, developing our own God given natural resources should be job one for any administration. Economic prosperity and national security go hand in hand when we talk energy.

We have more than enough oil and natural gas to be totally energy independent. In fact, we are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. We have an estimated 200 plus years worth of coal reserves, and we haven’t even started talking about nuclear energy.

What say you Mr Obama? Are going to finally quit pushing your radical Marxist agenda on a nation that has soundly rejected it and start doing your job, and put together a coherent energy policy? Or…are you going to continue to send this nation over a cliff and toward certain destruction?

It’s time to choose buddy…time to choose!

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  • Lia

    Very interesting article!

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  • Trish Talon

    You Go Girl! Hugz!

  • Beth Shipper

    Excellent points!!! When is Obama going to listen to the people he is supposed be serving?

    • Bucmell

      Excuse me beth, when exactly did GWB, or any other President listen to the masses in the last 28 years..?

  • Walter Stimler

    Very insightful! but let us not wish too hard for Obama to "get it". His ignorance plays to our strength and to recapturing the house in 10 months. To my mind, it's better if he remains oblivious.

  • Erica Campbell

    Let's not forget that this country was completely screwed up before Obama took office. Do you honestly expect him to make miracles happen overnight? Obama has been in office a split second so let's try and be realistic.

    • Ron Devito

      I approved this specimen, because really it is too good for mere words to describe.

      M'am, Obama has been in office for one year and six days now. Putting it another way, he has served more than 25% or one quarter of his term. This comment might have made a valid point if were written a year ago today. Even then, Obama's less-than-stellar track record as a US Senator, an Illinois State Senator and as a "community organizer" did not portend a positive outcome. With more than one quarter of his term gone, the mantra of inheriting the prior administration's problems no longer applies. He has full ownership and responsibility for his administrations many ills and has for at least six to nine months now.

      From the $787 billion stimulus package — which was nothing more than a glorified version of Bush's wrong-headed TARP (you see in many ways, Bush was as RINO, but I digress); to his takeovers of the auto and banking industries to his attempt at taking over health care; to his cap-and-tax scheme, to his pathetic approach to national security, to an energy policy which in a word is absurd, Obama has established a track record. His utter lack of executive experience, his hatred for the country he serves, and his arrogance speak very loudly for themselves.

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  • http://[email protected] Marty Hunt

    OK as to the energy question, it is a fact that we will need oil for years to come we make to many things out of it not to need to conserve it, I know big oil wants to pump everything dry, but it is a fact that we can make our own oil from trash, two plants are going in New York now and making fuel for cars and trucks.
    We also have the technology to make our own power for cars we can do this today, the U.S. retooled Detroit in six months for world war two to produce tanks and plains for the war effort, and we can do it again for energy we just have to want to do it.
    Look at what John Bedini is doing there are many others out there, we have a car now that will go coast to coast with out stopping for fuel, magnetic motors that run for years that produce 24 kw of power and more, type in free energy on youtube and see how many things are here now, I know that they work I have built three of them myself, we just have to be fed-up enough to just get the job done, I hear politicians all the time wining about energy but it is going to take some one with guts to push this to production and retool factory's today.
    Wake up America let's be great again and make this happen.

  • akman

    this is what happens when people follow there itching ears to a sweet talker…. Death and distruction of a strong country…

    • Joseph Doelker

      the death of a country begins with deregulation, massive tax breaks, no border enforcement, reduced or removed tariffs, a weakened monetary unit, and a government body that has no true moral center and greed is the only motivator. This country hasn't been strong in decades and it started with Nixon's Beijing Trip which was touted as a great thing but was motivated by Union strangulation of Corporations and Middle Eastern demands over Oil Rights. Goodbye cheap oil and cheap labor. Hello, Made in China, unemployment, gas shortages, and a weakened dollar.

  • Carlo

    Attending last month's presidential address at West Point, a cadre of mischeivous cadets who made an off-campus hot breakfast cassarole of garlic and onion egg noodles washed down with skunky beer organized what the senior cadets called a "'punctu-ate it' sitdown on 'Fartation Walk' above the Hudson".

    Stationing themselves around the auditorium, each took their consecutive turns coordinated by cell phone walkie talkie-linkups to expel the most audible exclamatory fart possible to punctuate each oratory paragraph the president ended with the word "energy". It's most unfortunate that neither the liberal or conservative media didn't catch wind of this clandestine military operation guessing I'm the only one to report it.

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