What a moron. How did we elect someone so stupid?

China and India thank you.

As soon as Zippy starts traveling by pogo stick, I´ll pay attention to this.

This is your brain on crack.

"urged Congress to set up an Energy Security Trust to fund energy research"??????
And just what has the Dept. of Energy been doing all of these years?

Yeah, we pursue more oil? It would only help the economy with good paying domestic jobs, reduce and eventually eliminate the dependence on sources like the Mideast, and help give citizens mobility and a better life style.

Coming from the most airborne president and first family of all time, the guy who goes down the street to dinner with a 20-car motorcade.

Are there any viable alternatives? Even the Canadians and Europeans say no, things in the hypothetical stage can´t be mass-produced right now. That´s why they´re still drilling.

Get a clue, Obama. Your pals have enough slush money anyway.

Good grief the Democrats and Obama are completely nuts. I guess they want to go back to horses but wait they pollute too much. So it´s either public transportation or walking. There is no "green" energy and all the billions being wasted results in nothing more than million dollar kickbacks to Democrats in political and union donations. How stupid we have become as a nation sitting on so much oil that we can´t develop because of Democrats and some RHINOS.

Let the Obama´s set the example. Stop flying all over the country for Photo-ops and making speeches. Give the speeches from the Oval Office. Michelle, stay home and be with your own children for once. Take family vacations on the East Coast once a year instead of four or five vacations in Haiwai or Mexico.

You all don´t get it. This is not stupidity or lack of understanding; he knows there is no reasonable substitute for oil. This is deliberate.

#11,

Yes, it´s deliberate, and a select few friends of Obama are getting lots of green for it. It pay$ to be a contributor to the DNC and Obama.

Sorry #3 ...... but even the pogo stick needs a lubricant. Usually oil based.

We´re sitting on enormous oil reserves now and this character wants to not use them? Wow, those environmentalists must be tightening the screws on him.
On a related issue it appears to me that he´s going to have to approve The Pipeline in the next few weeks. One wonders what in the world he will promise his whacked out environmentalist supporters in return for this. Ratchet up the EPA a few more clicks? Heat up his anti-fracking efforts? We all may pay dearly for that pipeline. Of course Obama himself could care less about the pipeline either way, as he does with most things.

Well, it sounds nice and his intentions are "good" so there you go.

Thanks for the morning laugh #3 and #4

Agree.. he will approve the pipeline, but not until he gets something in return. There´s a word for that, I think.

Oh, and that´s JUST what we need... another bureaucracy. Good Grief.
However, I would pay to see him on a pogo stick.

Anything to make the United States weaker!

Ever notice that most of his "energy" plans call for some type of bank, infrastructure bank, etc. His suggestion of a "bank" means he can funnel treasury funds into something he has control over. Then when the funds disappear to friends and cronies, it will be difficult to follow the money trail. Do not give this man control over any more of our money, cut off the spigot now.

This President, to be kind, is an abomination.
( My opinion ). He will do anything possible to destroy the fabric of our society. All one has to do is look to our Northern neighbor,
Canada, which in addition to oil and natural gas, still is able to fund every known type of green energy, including wind, biomass, water power, and other forms of energy. They do not seem to have any problem using all types of energy. Only OUR President is a pick and choose person, selecting who and what he wants to succeed. He is simply NOT a leader.
He is a DIVIDER.

Picture an emaciated population close to starvation..and our midwest farmland lying fallow..
THIS would be Obama´s dream too.
We are breaking the bank here, while we sit on trillions in liquid gold.
This makes sense only to Obama and his well heeled supporters who are looking for more government money, like Solyndra.
The solution to America´s financial problems is to drill drill drill.
Obama is the problem, not the solution.

Nomasbs,o

When AF1 and 2 fly with solar power and he gives up his 40 car motorcade and they stop flying all over the world on expensive vacations then we can look to alternatives.

We can give up oil as soon as develop a car that runs on hot air.

We have plenty of that.

Why put all that effort into getting rid of oil. Here are some better ideas. First lets get rid of food. Supermarkets are cluttering up the landscape and big nasty trucks are all over the highways hauling the food to them. Let´s develop energy pills. Two pills three times a day and you don´t need to eat. Then there´s personal transportation. We wouldn´t even need the oil if we had alternate ways to travel. How about anti-gravity boots? You just put them on and float to wherever you are going. Goodbye cars. I say let´s invest in these great ideas, which are every bit as realistic as replacing fossil fuel energy sources with windmills and solar panels, and faster than you can say "coast to coast wind and solar farm" all our problems will be solved. Not to mention think of all the jobs these efforts will create.

All the federal revenue from oil leases hasi already been spoken for so what is he going to defund?

A real knee-slapper Barrack. Lesee, how do we depend on oil. How about transportation? Will 747 fly or limos like "the beast" move without oil? Do we have solar tractors now or do oil-gusling farm implements provide our broccoli, kale, and corn? Are many plastics made from oil? Is clothing, food, even electronic communication possible without OIL! Really now, it´s Obama standing astride of history yelling STOP.

Obama, Get off our backs for good.

Junior just call it for what it is. You need more slush funds. Stash of cash is getting low; credit cared maxing out, lenders drying up. Taxpayers getting wise and feisty. More slush funds getting harder to attain. Your bottom is dropping out.

As an professional engineer with a solar powered vacation home for 17 yrs I designed and built and part of the team that designed and built one of the first research hybrid vehicles in the mid-1970s, I have a good bit of real experience in ´alternate energy´.

The only really economically viable power sources for a modern society are based on burning naturally occuring hydrocarbon fuels like natural gas, coal and oil and the refined products of oil. All the silly toys that have been built that using "alternate energy" sources are economically disastrous in most situations. By creating artificial shortages to force up the cost of conventional fuels to make alternate energy toys more economically viable, the left is doing serious economic damage to everyone, especially the poor, while they always claim to be "helping".

This is why techno-idiots should never be in a position of power. Especially techno-idiots who are also Marxists - which is another way of saying economic idiots.

Marxism has been tried repeatedly on a number of grand scale experiments and has only produced misery, enslavement, starvation, privation and millions of deaths. Alternate energy schemes are "alternate" because they are economically non-viable, like Marxism.

You guys are getting it. Stinky is waiting for the gas and oil industries to bribe him. Stinky doesn´t turn down the pipeline, the permits for the paid for leases offshore, the permits for the LNG export plants, the permits for drillingon federal land. If Stinky turns them down there is no chance for humongous bribes. He is just delaying like a Haitian judge who holds the adoptions up until the bribes arrive on his desk.

We are being governed by a corrupt third world dictator.....and delay is his tool.

Interesting that the quoted words are not in the official transcript.

Lunacy. And a belief in magic: that wanting something must make it so.

Liquid carbon-based fuels are likely to prevail for vehicles during the lifetime of the readers here. Nothing else matches its energy density or seems likely to. Nothing else is as versatile and convenient.

Hydrogen is the one fuel that does not contain carbon. The problem is expense; I doubt that can be overcome.

IMO we should concentrate on energy efficiency instead of making fuels expensive and life inconvenient.

But O and Statists will always prefer behavior modification.

i.e. just issue commands and force obedience and eventually the people will adjust and begin to like it.

An Age of Utopia. will follow. Just like the old USSR..

When there´s an adequate substitute for oil that´s commercially viable, I´m all for it, but to seek to "get off oil for good" before that time arrives is stupidity that reaches the point of being malicious. Engine fouling ethanol, which we really should wean ourselves from, ought not to exist as a motor fuel. Bush 43 deserves his own figurative kick in the seat of the pants for signing the 2007 law that mandated ethanol. But even though he´s infinitely less harmful than his successor, he never was a particularly good president, anyway.

Republicans and honest reporters ought to be able to run Obama out of town for his continual foolishness, wastefulness, and his outright idiotic policies, but I doubt they´ve got the agates. Yet one more reason why I want to leave this country before it falls apart. The government is too powerful and it´s being run by fools and/or traitors.

#34: Good points. I have long expressed your excellent point thusly: "The Stone Age didn´t end because we ran out of stones."

#33: Also a good post. Despite what the Left "knows," we can´t just choose "what will work." We´re out-voted by nature, by physics, by the Four Forces. All those carbon bonds we get for only the modest energy of recovery and refining [not much compared to what those carbon rings give up when oxidized] are a boon, not a burdensome blind alley.

Those who love power will always prefer having a problem to solving it, because solving it means we don´t need them any longer. They can never and will never let that happen.

#30 thank you so much. That was very informative and interesting.

So, instead of a chicken in every pot, is Zippy giving everyone an energy efficient new car ?

People need jobs first.

#32 -- it may be worth noting that those words WERE used by Obama in the 2008 interview in which he stated his belief that we must move completely away from oil and coal as energy sources. (The online video of which disappeared a month or so after he was elected - though it may have resurfaced subsequently in some off-search-engine-grid place.)