Barack Obama Hates Middle America

It’s a statement that may seem harsh and overly simplistic, but it’s difficult to reach any other conclusion from this sort of news:

President Obama to call for one-third cut to oil imports

President Obama on Wednesday will call for a one-third cut in oil imports by 2020, part of a plan he says will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign petroleum.

With rising gasoline prices at home and political turmoil throughout the Middle East, Obama will seek in a speech at Georgetown University to rally Americans — and bickering lawmakers — behind a program that draws about half of that import cut from energy savings and about half from greater energy production, according to Obama aides who briefed reporters Tuesday.

Many facets of his program will be familiar. The president will propose wider use of natural gas, including incentives to use it to fuel fleet vehicles such as city buses. He will back greater production of biofuels and will vow to establish at least four commercial-scale refineries producing cellulosic ethanol or advanced biofuels within the next two years. He also will pledge to establish higher fuel-efficiency standards for heavy trucks, just as he did for passenger vehicles early in his administration.

Obama will also urge oil companies to make greater use of the federal leases both onshore and offshore to prop up domestic oil output. The oil industry and GOP lawmakers have been loudly complaining about delays in the permitting of offshore drilling in recent months. But an irked administration, which had pledged tougher scrutiny of drilling applications after last year’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, fired back Tuesday with an Interior Department report that revived earlier debates about whether oil companies were exploiting the leases they already have.

So the same administration that is refusing to allow drilling for oil offshore has the audacity to go to Brazil and promise America will consume more of their oil, then turn right back around and give a speech in America to say that we will cut our own oil imports by one-third to reduce our dependency.

The hypocrisy and idiocy are absurd.

Not to mention the fact that reducing American imports does not decrease our dependency. No, it raises the costs, especially if offshore drilling here in the states is not encouraged. Sure, higher prices may eventually lead to the adoption of more cheaper, cleaner, and reliable energy sources but it is all an artificial push from the government that is not kept in tune with the market. And the result will be discord. Discord from rising oil prices, and a disconnect between the Obama  administration and the people who will be most effected by this policy.