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Will Obama Be Vindicated or Villified if America Becomes Energy Independent?
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by coltcall
According to this report, America is becoming energy independent.
I'm not buying the report. It's NBC .. which is the shill machine for the Obama administration. If there were other sources claiming the same thing ... more independent sources or at least multiple sources ... then I'd consider it.
I don't see us becoming energy independent at all. Not at all ...edit on 3/18/2013 by FlyersFan because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by redoubt
reply to post by coltcall
Will Obama Be Vindicated or Villified if America Becomes Energy Independent?
Regardless of whether the US were to achieve such a goal, it would be neither Obama's fault or glory responsible.
Originally posted by Glinda
reply to post by coltcall
Yoko has a "gentle woman's" farm somewhere in upstate NY. She, along with her son Sean and fellow non-Ph.d Susan Sarandon have been "touring" (riding around in a luxe stretch rock star tricked out bus--but whose measuring carbon foot prints) telling the "little" people how AWFUL fracking in PA, OH, WV is (no need to worry about her "home state" of NY --he pals in Albany got HER land protected).
As I posted above, the out right poverty in southern upstate NY is stunning; Cuomo has stopped ANY drilling or fracturing for another two years for more enviro "studies" (even though ones already done show no cause for delay). Over the border in PA...jobs and growth.
Originally posted by coltcall
Originally posted by seeker1963
reply to post by syrinx high priest
rush gets the credit for good things, obama gets blame for bad things
My vision of energy independence in the US includes the deaths of the majority of the people who live here. Until that happens...............don't get your hopes up!
The deaths of the majority of people here? I assume you don't include yourself or your family and close friends? Ah, well....spoken like a Viking, I suppose
Now, that's just a premise. What do you think?
Originally posted by seeker1963
reply to post by coltcall
Now, that's just a premise. What do you think?
I think you summed it up quite well! Not much in that I can say I actually disagree with!
So the question remains, is Obama purposely destroying the United States? I would have to say "Yes he is!". So not to get the progressives riled up and frothing at the mouths, I will also say that Obama did a fine job expanding on the police state that Bush set him up with.
Originally posted by GreenGlassDoor
Reply to post by coltcall
Villified because the US Dollar is a petrodollar. Kissinger convinced the Saudis to sell oil in dollars, so people wanted dollars to buy oil. Unless the US becomes a net exporter of oil, a way OPEC can throw a wrench into the works is by dropping the dollar. That would leave everyone holding dollars comint to US, buying up everything that isn't bolted down (which would be great for sellers intially) and leaving the US with a whole mess of money and nothing to spend it on. The dollar then crashes and all Hell breaks loose.
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Originally posted by jjkenobi
What has Obama done to increase oil drilling in America? Anything? Or does he happen to be the sitting Prez while the so called "evil" corporations are developing and perfecting new technologies to get the oil. So far the net result is gas is higher in cost than ever before.
Originally posted by Panic2k11
reply to post by GreenGlassDoor
Weak dollar is important to reduce imports and increase exports leading to a better trade balance and job creation...
Originally posted by GreenGlassDoor
Reply to post by syrinx high priest
A weak dollar means the things we import (such as oil) costs more. Given that Tim and Ben target inflation as the monetary goal, yeah, the President does shoulder some blame for the high prices.
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Originally posted by SproutKY
the extreme right wing will find a way to vilify, the rest of the world will see it as vindication. You'll know when you see it on faux news.