Prove Obama is "anti fossil fuel". I'm not taking a partisan poster's word for it.
President Obama has made it pretty clear he's anti fossil fuel. Despite a technological explosion that has allowed us to access more of previous deposits and get at new ones in ingenious methods that reduce environmental impact, drilling on federal lands has
decreased at the rapid rate as his administration chokes the permit process. All that new drilling he takes credit for is taking place on
private lands where they are more willing to take advantage of the new tech and methodologies. From the Gulf ban, to Alaska, to Fracking, to his energy secretary, the administration has made it pretty clear that it seeks ways to move us from fossil fuel to "clean new green" energy by subsidizing the new and tightening the spigot on the old.
As a single small example, Obama's Justice Department sued a bunch of companies in North Dakota to temporarily shut down fracking last year, claiming that roughly 25-30 birds had died in their reserve pits, and this was in violation of the Migratory Bird Act. Mind you, an estimated 33,000 birds are killed by wind turbines every year... yet the administration, apparently, didn't want to sue
them.... President Obama told Harold Hamm (CEO of Continental Resources) that "he sees essentially no future for oil and gas." So Hamm signed on instead as an energy adviser to Mitt Romney. The Obama Administration now accuses Romney of "standing with Big Oil" :roll:.
Then perhaps try to back up your hairbrained notion that if King Obama ordered more oil drilling we'd somehow have a booming economy.
Booming like North Dakota? No. But we would have a much
better economy. Oil Jobs pay above the American average, and hire the same blue-collar workers that have taken the brunt end of the recession. You know one of the things they need most in North Dakota right now? Housing Construction workers. Truck Drivers are pulling in between $80-120,000 a year with generous benefits. And they are paying taxes, too. The reason for this thread is that North Dakota has more money right now than it fully knows what to do with, and increased revenues would occur at the national level as well - not only from the companies, but from the workers who would go from being net drains on the system via unemployment to being net payers into the system; a double win.
Fortunately, Romney (despite his many ideological sins) is no idiot. He knows if he wins, he needs to produce some dramatic improvements in about two to three years to demonstrate that his selling message (that he is the competent business guy who specializes in turning around failing enterprises) was accurate and win reelection. Shifting the Executive Branch into high-octane enabling of the energy sector rather than seeking to choke it off is one of the ways to help do that, and I would bet he knows it.
People talk about Saudi Arabia, but America is actually the energy king of the world - we have more here at home than anywhere else, and yet we're buying more expensively than we need to from everyone else.
