Obama, I'm sorry, is an idiot. He is saying that proposals to drill for oil domesitically decrease our energy independence.
What Obama has to say
How does drilling for domestic oil decrease out energy independence?
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"But his decision to completely change his position and tell a group of Houston oil executives exactly what they wanted to hear today was the same Washington politics that has prevented us from achieving energy independence for decades," the Illinois senator said in a statement.
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If only we had drilled when Clinton sid the same thing about ANWR in 1995.
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"Much like his gas tax gimmick that would leave consumers with pennies in savings, opening our coastlines to offshore drilling would take at least a decade to produce any oil at all, and the effect on gasoline prices would be negligible at best since America only has three percent of the world's oil."
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Even if only 3% of the oil, a number I doubt but would need to research, we can use it. And if you include currently restrict shale oil in the rockies, we have a lot more than that.
Instead, let's use windfall profits tax to discourage any investment! Brilliant!
I'm sorry - whether you agree with drilling domestically or not, to say that increasing domestic production decreases energy independence makes one a fool.