The Professor Tells Americans To Just Get Over Their Oil Addiction

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The Professor Tells Americans To Just Get Over Their Oil Addiction

Written By : William Teach

And, Obama swings and misses during his first televised speech from the Oval office. Fifty five plus days out, and Obama still has no plan. He offered absolutely nothing new other than a few seemingly offhand remarks about “Doing Something.” He talked about lawsuits and holding BP accountable. Threw lots of blame around while claiming he and his administration have been on top of the situation immediately. How will the spill be fixed? Apparently, by reducing our “dependence” on fossil fuels

For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered. For decades, we’ve talked and talked about the need to end America’s century-long addiction to fossil fuels. And for decades, we have failed to act with the sense of urgency that this challenge requires. Time and again, the path forward has been blocked — not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.

What panderers like Obama never lay out is what exactly we are to replace oil with. Face it, next to human beings, oil is the most important single commodity in the world. A good chunk of plastics are made with….oil (or natural gas or coal.) Besides getting us to work (or play), it is involved in some way with almost every product made and used, unless you live like it is 1299. So, yeah, there is not much political will to do away with petroleum until a substitute is readily available. Without oil, how would Obama have gotten to Pensacola, driven around to meet with people, then flown back to Andrews AFB, and chopper back to the White House?

BTW, all that makeup he was wearing, that nice, smooth shave, the curtains behind him, the microphone he spoke in to, among others? Oil.

The consequences of our inaction are now in plain sight. Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries that should be right here in America. Each day, we send nearly $1 billion of our wealth to foreign countries for their oil. And today, as we look to the Gulf, we see an entire way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of black crude.

Don’t misunderstand, I would like to see oil replaced with something cleaner (and cheaper). Perhaps PeBo should consider offering something to actually replace it with before he makes a reference to a menacing cloud of black crude (BTW, if a white said that, they would probably be called a racist.) Furthermore, for someone who travels in a giant jet all the time along with a backup, not to mention the limo with dozens of security cars, he should perhaps walk the talk.

We cannot consign our children to this future. The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now. Now is the moment for this generation to embark on a national mission to unleash America’s innovation and seize control of our own destiny.

He didn’t seem to have any problem consigning our children to a future of massive debt from the Generation Theft Act. And the budget, and the health system act, and etc and so on. Anyhow, interestingly, it is the hard core environmentalist kooks, who vote Democrat, who time and time again block the actual alternative energy projects. They, along with Ted Kennedy, blocked the Cape Wind Project for a decade. The blocked a transmission line from a solar plant outside Los Angeles. Diane Feinstein has scuttled 13 solar and wind farm projects in the Mohave.

This is not some distant vision for America. The transition away from fossil fuels is going to take some time, but over the last year and a half, we’ve already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry. As we speak, old factories are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to work installing energy-efficient windows, and small businesses are making solar panels. Consumers are buying more efficient cars and trucks, and families are making their homes more energy-efficient. Scientists and researchers are discovering clean energy technologies that someday will lead to entire new industries.

Someday. Great. When? No one knows.

PeBo spent 4 more paragraphs on this same subject, then 4 small ones wrapping up. His priority was not on solving the spill, but, excoriating the American public for living a 1st World lifestyle. Tell you what, PeBo: you massively reduce your oil dependence first. Lead the way.

Crossed at Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach

northerncanuck

I have no doubt as to the sincerity of his annoyance, this whole thing is just so unfair to him, it's detracting from his Greatness.
baoxian

The left wants all but the favored elite to live in the Stone Age. They pay lip service to “clean energy” but their own environmental policies are anti-technology and anti-civilization. They oppose any wind or solar power generation of significance. They oppose oil and gas drilling and coal mining. They oppose nuclear power. Hell they even oppose hydro power, supporting their latest enviro-diety James Cameron as he railed against a dam (the cleanest source of energy known to man) in Brazil.

They want us destitute andin poverty, completely dependent on an all powerful government for all aspects of life. Crap and Trade is the most direct evidence, as it establishes an economic dictator to control any trade, commerce, or aspect of life that generates *or uses* electricity.

These self-styled elitists can go to hell. We have no desire to live in their 12th century Caliphate. That's why they're going to be electorally destroyed in November and they know it.
Tom_pinko_Delay

Furthermore, for someone who travels in a giant jet all the time along with a backup, not to mention the limo with dozens of security cars, he should perhaps walk the talk.

Really William? You don't think security concerns for the most powerful man on the planet get special exception? Really?

baoxian

Even Jimmy Carter had the sense to put on a sweater and pretend he gave a damn.

gfchicago

LOL great come back.
Mahatma

If we had only listened to Jimmy.

http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

Well, there you go, Tom. It always seems that some leader on the Left who proposes something gets an exception. Look at Gore: he tells everyone else how to live their life, yet, he has a massive carbon footprint, supposedly excused because he buys offsets.

With liberals, it is always “do as I say, not as I do.”

Tom_pinko_Delay

Al Gore is a private citizen. Obama is the POTUS and Commander-in-Chief. See the difference there?

And I'd be saying the same thing if it was McCain.

UFKA_Smithwick

So it's now wrong to propose that private citizens restrict their gasoline use to save the planet?

Funny how that works.

A typical environmentalist nutjob will scream at someone they see driving a truck (from a safe distance of course) as destroying the planet with their harmful emissions. But if you dare point out that Gore uses exclusively first class flights and limos to get around they merely shrug and say “well it's his money”.

Tom_pinko_Delay

You mis-read my point. Al Gore should absolutely cut his carbon emissions. And he can, because he's a private citizen. Obama, as POTUS, cannot.
StanW

He can't? REALLY? The President of the United States oes not have the power to curtail his trips? Or teleconference?

Speaking of clownish, look in the mirror, Pinko!
Tom_pinko_Delay

Sorry, should have been more specific. He can't cut the amount of vehicles or the back up plane needed for his security detail.
http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

Because he needs those planes and cars to teleconference, yes he does.
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

Tom – you're hopelessly in the weeds on this one. Mr. Obama can, and should, cut his use of fossil fuels if he's asking all of us to do the same. That's part of what leadership is all about. The fact that he's not doing it tells many of us that he lacks the “leadership gene”. Which leads us to speeches like the one he made last night.

No one's seriously suggesting that he not travel at all, only that he cut out the personal and vanity trips; that he consider taking more energy efficient modes of transportation when available; that he at least fool some of us into thinking that he shares our pain. Hinting that we should all get a carbon tax thrown on us in the midst of a protracted economic downturn with high persistent unemployment speaks very loudly to the point that he doesn't share our pain.

Last night, I found myself reminded of that old cartoon posted in almost every office in America, the one showing a bearded prisoner wearing tatty clothes and locked in hand and leg irons in a dungeon bearing the caption “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
UFKA_Smithwick

Obama absolutely can cut his footprint.

Maybe he can't control how many tons of carbon he emits per mile when he's on the road or in the air. But he can reduce the amount of time he's traveling.

For instance: he doesn't need to fly to europe to get an award. He didn't have to fly to Chicago to stump for the olympics and stroke his own ego. Flying him and his wife to new york so she could go shopping wasn't a matter of state. He didn't have to vacation in Hawaii or go on nearly so many golfing ventures.

Maybe the security is out of his hands but choosing when to travel is not and so far he's done quite a bit of traveling merely for fun.

Again, it appears hypocritical when leftists say the world is going to die within a few years if we don't all ride bicycles and live in mud huts, but then absolutely refuse to change their lifestyle slightly, even on matters of entertainment/convenience that can be easily altered.

BTW: are you admitting that Al Gore is a raging hypocrite?
gfchicago

Like hell he can't. He could damn well cut out all of the un-necessary trips that he takes that are not related to the business of the U.S.

There have been way too many personal trips that he has taken over the last 18 months just because could and that crap needs to stop.

He sits there and tells the rest of us to tighten our belts and he is having lavish dinner parties for his friends that have nothing to do with International diplomacy… He is nothing but a damn hypocrite.
Mahatma

Maybe he will hire you to decide what is important and what isn't. Personal trips that involve cutting brush is okay, right?

airfr8er

Care to bet how Obama will travel in a few years when he is not prez?

Mahatma

In 6 1/2 years, who knows?

whats_up

William, what a lame ass reply, you know as well as anyone that the special security for the President is mandated, yet you have no problem trying to use that against Obama. Pathetic really.

StanW

Sure, crthns. I remember you saying the same thing when Bush and Cheney were whisked away after 9/11. Oh, except you didn't.

HYPOCRITE!
http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

And, BAMM! Tom and whats_up prove my point in that they will always find a way to make excuses for their leaders.

There are quite a few things Obama could do to reduce his oil dependence. For instance, how about fewer parties at the White House? How about not making quick flights to NY and Chicago for date night with the wife? How about reducing the amount of flights he takes for fundraisers…..oh, actually, he has done that, since quite a few Democrats do not want PeBo stumping for them.

northerncanuck

How about he turns down the thermostat?
Whoops, it was specifically stated he likes it very warm inside.

http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

So his FOUR trips to the Gulf were absolutely necessary? How about that trip to the IOC meeting, or Copenhagen for the Nobel? Did he NEED to go to jetting aroud the country to promote his healthcare,plan AFTER it was signed into law?

You're the fucking moron here cum-stain.

Mahatma

And if he hadn't gone to the Gulf FOUR times you would have been bitching about his lack of attention to the crisis. With that in mind, you are irrelevant woofie. But on the bright side, I love your hot dogs! Classic Vienna's rule!
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

Right I'm irrelevant, what does thst make you? You're of no more import to this discussion than a flea fart.

And all Obama needed to was offer what ever resources we had to assist BP, there was no more need for Odrama to fly to the Gulf as there was for you to be born.

UFKA_Smithwick

He might wrack up less of a carbon footprint if he weren't constantly flying between the golf-course and the whitehouse.

He doesn't have to travel for vacations if he's that concerned about carbon emissions.

BTW: the whole “AGW is equivalent to WWII and we all have to make sacrifices, so long as I don't have to make any changes to my lifestyle” -routine doesn't garner as much support with the proles as you might think.
anwatkins

Okay then…..

Can we rail on him about the stunt with Air Force One flying around the Statue of Liberty as a photo op?

northerncanuck

It still amazes me that little stunt just got passed off, it was despicable on so many levels.

http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

Yeah, William – it's not like he could take a train up to New York from Washington or something like that. Wait. What? You say he can take a train?

My bad.

/sarc

mightysamurai

Typical liberal.

“You people need to lower your carbon output, but not me! I'm too important!”

Tom_pinko_Delay

Clown-ish, even for you samurai, to ignore the security of our President.

Drethos

Weak argument
gfchicago

That is exactly the impression he is giving. Hey I'm better than you, shut up and sit down. He has used those exact words against the conservatives in this country while trying to sell all of these astronomical bills that San Fran Nan and Harry Reid came up with.
mightysamurai

Who says I'm ignoring his security? I'm not the one who told him to go jetting and motoring all over the world, spewing carbon all along the way.

If Obama really believed this bullcrap about carbon emissions he would either find a more environmentally friendly way to travel, or not travel at all. But far be it for the Obamessiah to walk the talk, eh Pinko?

Mahatma

Well it might be a little important for him to get where he is going. You to your Anime or Star Trek convention, not so much.
mightysamurai

I'll take your ad hominem attacks as an implicit surrender.
Mahatma

Yeah. You never make ad hominem attacks.
Toastrider

He doesn't need to, all your damage is self-inflicted.
mightysamurai

To make up for a total lack of a counter-argument? No, I can't say I've ever done that.

On the other hand, it seems to be the only thing you ever do.

UFKA_Smithwick

A lot of leftists due to poor education and constant propaganda seem to think that oil is only used for making cars go. Hence they think that electric cars powered on magical Obama-juice will mean we never have to use a single gallon of oil ever again.

Unfortunately the uneducated and the educated each get to vote and those votes count the same. We're in trouble.
http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

As soon as Obama comes over and fits out my car with a windmill that will move it as far and as fast as its current 2.4-liter combustion engine, I'll be happy to drive it. Until then, telling me to “get off foreign oil” doesn't get me to work and back.
D-Vega

Please lame excuses, Mr. Teach.

The President is correct in this. He didn't say it's easy or there is a magic solution. But he is correct, as Bush was when he said the same thing, as Carter was when he said the same thing.

http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

Bush stated that we needed to use more of our own oil, Vega, not stop using it and replace it with……well, what the heck are we going to replace it with?

Mahatma

Public transportation? Bicycles? Walking? Teleconferencing? Won't replace but surely reduce.

UFKA_Smithwick

Great ideas.

And I'll take all this a little more seriously when will big name environmentalists start to take the bus and teleconference their save the world meetings (the next one will be in Cancun BTW).

Instead they take private jets to 5 star resorts (typically on public dime) where they are met by a limo/helicopter.

Also, how much money has the administration given to developing public transit, as opposed to say union/banker handouts?

Saying we need to break our oil dependence rings hollow when your idea of “doing your part” is to do all the things you'd ban other from doing and the only investing money in democrat donors rather than real alternatives.

Mahatma

Well I do those things and ultimately that's what I can do. You?
UFKA_Smithwick

I'm guessing that the pollution I generate is far less than average, probably lower than yours.

But that's not really the point now is it?

Isn't it funny that when telling other people what to do liberals have no problem with creating edicts requiring them to live a certain way. But when you call them out on their actions it all comes down to individual choices, no coercion necessary.

For instance: Al Gore uses more fossil fuels than some countries every year. However he feels confident telling the rest of us to live like cave-men. When called out on it his minions on the internet always respond with “well it's his money, he can use it as he sees fit”.

All fine and good except he's working to get the government to coerce people in to spending their money how he wishes.

Seems rather hypocritical to me.
mightysamurai

He doesn't believe in your global warming superstition, so why should he do anything at all?

You might as well ask why Catholics don't bow down and pray to Mecca.

D-Vega

I don't think he said stop using it, as we can never stop using it. We need alternative sources. Even a minor reduction in fossil fuels could have a dramatic effect. The biggest consumer is automobiles, and we have already begun the process of reducing their fuel consumption.

Addiction is abuse. We may not be able to wait until something is as cheap as oil. I am open to ideas, including nuclear power.

http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

“I don't think he said stop using it, as we can never stop using it. We need alternative sources.”

At the moment, the only viable alternatives to foreign oil are… domestic oil, nuclear and coal. If you know an alternative power source that would replace those right now, please let us know what they are. Keep in mind that any alternatives would have to reliably generate the same amount of power and be as cost-effective as the other types I mentioned. So let's have the list.

D-Vega

Cost-effective is the catch, Cav. That's why we are in the mess we are in.

It may prove to be a little more expensive, that should be our goal. If it has to come out of the gate being as cheap as oil then it's a non-starter because no alternative has ever started being as cheap as the original. If we wait then we will be behind when oil becomes so expensive then we are forced to switch. Then we get even screwed harder.

OR, we tax oil to the point where it is as cost-effective as alternative energies. And then return the taxes to the public in the form of alternative energy subsidies. You don't really want that, do you?

http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

I'm all for reducing our usage of oil in vehicles (particularly jet ski's and the like, can't stand those f***ing things). They put out a lot of pollution, though, I am not referring to CO2.

That said, what say we actually develop a replacement first? Ethanol is not cutting it so far. Electric? The power has to come from somewhere, batteries end up as pollutants, there are few charging stations, and it takes awhile to recharge.

D-Vega

A replacement cannot be instant or forced (as many conservatives say), but what we can do (as employers of the gov't) is support research and development. We need a NASA for energy.

Not only to find alternative energy but to develop solutions to anticipated problems, whether it nuclear waste or an underwater leak.

mightysamurai

We need alternative sources.

I can't help but notice that liberals keep repeating “we need alternative sources” without actually suggesting what those sources should be.

D-Vega

We have been telling you for years. The only one that liberals waffle on is nuclear, but I think you will find that geographically different things could work; geo-thermal, wind (YES WIND), solar not so much (though solar panels on office buildings can offset power usage and cost), nuclear (give localities the decision), natural gas (from the same places, but MUCH cleaner), etc.

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