Obama Plan for Energy Starvation and Suicide

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has oil reserves in Abu Dhabi that will last another 150 years -- even without any new oil discovery! These proven reserves help to underpin another century of solid economic development for the country.

The US, likewise, has huge fossil fuels reserves that could be used to underpin centuries of economic and technological development. The problem seems to be that the US has a government that is committed to starving its industrial and commercial infrastructure of its lifeblood of energy. Witness President Obama's recent actions:

The entire west coast is now off limits.... That means California’s 10 billion barrels of oil and all the jobs, money and energy they would produce for that bankrupt state are now under embargo.

But the biggest threat to U.S. energy security is what the president did in Alaska, and by extension, to America. He cancelled five existing lease sales that were to be held in 2011 and 2012.

Two of the sales are in the Chukchi Sea, adjacent to where Russia is exploring for and producing oil and gas. According to Salazar’s own Department of Interior, the Chukchi Sea area could hold as much as 77 billion barrels of oil. This is over three times as much oil as the U.S. has in proven reserves, and by itself, is larger than Russia’s total proven oil reserves.

Obama’s new plan for drilling offshore in America is a lot like his old plan: Don’t do it. The fact that his image team went overboard to sell it as offshore drilling means he has seen the polls that show two-thirds of Americans support more offshore drilling._Source

There was no shortage of not-so-bright pundits who declared that Obama was now opening up oil drilling, based upon the White House announcements. But anyone who has been following the Obama - Pelosi - Boxer - Salazar program of planned energy starvation would have known better.

Try not to be a sucker for the Obama - Pelosi reich's PR team. It makes you look weak and wobbly.