"But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies. And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America."
As I listened to Barack Obama speak that paragraph in his 2010 State of the Union speech, I remember thinking that was a pretty bold declaration for a democrat president. "I wonder how he will get out of it", i thought to myself.
Now flash forward to present day. On the heals of the accusations that the Goldman Sachs charges and hearing were choreographed with the White House so that the President can push his Financial Reform agenda, we have the coal mine disaster and the oil rig disaster almost in unison with each other.
Now Obama has all but halted all new mine and oil rig development until "new safe guards are in place." Isn't that convenient? Maybe a little to convenient right? Maybe it is so convenient that only someone with the audacity and arrogance of Barack Obama would have the stones to try and pull it off.
Something else to think about? There has been no statement as to the initial cause of this disaster. All we know is that there was an explosion. But how exactly does a deep water oil rig sink? These things are meant to survive category 5 hurricanes. Not one sank or leaked during Katrina.
Would a President do such a thing? Did President Bush orchestrate the biggest terrorist attack on American soil in history so he could have an excuse to attack Iraq? Probably not, but this current scenario is far more plausible from a logistics standpoint, and far easier to believe than the Bush lies many of you hard core liberals bought-hook-line-and-sinker.
That could also be why the President has been so slow to go visit the Gulf Coast. He doesn't want to witness his handy-work. Maybe he can't handle the guilt.