Obama: On Global Warming ...
Now, it is a fact that is melting our glaciers and setting off dangerous weather patterns as we speak.
Obama: On Strategic Petroleum Reserve Sell-Off ...
I do not believe that we should use the strategic oil reserves at this point, Obama said July 7. I have said and, in fact, supported a congressional resolution that said that we should suspend putting more oil into the strategic oil reserve, but the strategic oil reserve, I think, has to be reserved for a genuine emergency. You have a situation, let's say, where there was a major oil facility in Saudi Arabia that was destroyed as a consequence of terrorist acts, and you suddenly had huge amounts of oil taken out of the world market, we wouldn't just be seeing $4-a-gallon oil. We could see a situation where entire sectors of the country had no oil to function at all. And that's what the strategic oil reserve has to be for. (July 7, 2008)
We should sell 70 million barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve for less expensive crude, which in the past has lowered gas prices within two weeks. (August 4, 2008)
If visiting Obama's website won't cause one pain or soil one's keyboard, do go and read the text at its source.
While his speech was in part directed to Michigan Voters, what about the rest of the 57 States? 150 MPG "Plug-in" Hybrid ... Hey, I'm all for it! My problem is that this speech was so political and full of the same bovine excrement that politicians have used since the beginning ... listening to it hurts my head.
