Video Added: Obama does a flip-flop on Offshore Drilling; does he stand for anything?

Obama energy "policy"

1. Obama wants us to drive less to stop Global Warming; Washington State Dems pass Draconian law forcing people out of their cars
2. Obama/Pelosi Drilling legislation is a sham which precludes drilling where the most oil is deposited: Q and A
3. Tell Obama & Dems to get out of the way! We must access natural resources to create jobs, pay for healthcare; pay down debt
4. Obama's gobbledygook of an energy policy is receiving little mainstream media exposure: Carter's second term?
5. Einstein wrote:"Nothing more stupid than doing the same thing twice and expecting different results"; Obama missed the memo
6. To promote "green", Obama claimed he drove a vehicle that uses ethanol; GM confirmed the model was NOT ethanol-ready
7. Obama claims "properly inflating tires" will save as much energy as we could drill offshore; analysis shows not even close
8. Obama's economic and energy plans are bad jokes ; both plans are delusional fairy tales
9. Obama's plan to spend 150 billion bucks on "green jobs" is Dead On Arrival
10. Video Added: Obama does a flip-flop on Offshore Drilling; does he stand for anything?
11. New York Post endorses McCain; notes stark differences with freshman Sen. Barack Obama on National Security, taxes, energy
12. Obama and Democrats are not serious about drilling; more political smoke and mirrors while the economy suffers; we pay
13. Tell Obama & Dems to get out of the way! We must access natural resources to create jobs, pay for healthcare; pay down debt
14. 11/9 Obama to use Exec powers to quickly block drilling for oil in Utah; energy independence?

WHAT HE SAID WHEN HE OPPOSED DRILLING



July 11 2008






July 14 Miami Herald
Here's what Barack Obama's campaign says about President Bush's lifting of the ban that prevents offshore oil drilling:

"If offshore drilling would provide short-term relief at the pump or a long-term strategy for energy independence, it would be worthy of our consideration, regardless of the risks. But most experts, even within the Bush administration, concede it would do neither. It would merely prolong the failed energy policies we have seen from Washington for 30 years. Senator Obama believes Americans need real short-term relief, which is why he has proposed a second round of stimulus with energy rebates for working families. And over the long-term, Senator Obama understands that our national security and the survivial of the planet demand a real strategy to break our dependence on foreign oil by developing clean, new sources of energy and by vastly improving the energey efficiency of our cars, trucks and our economy. He is ready to lead such a transformation.

AUGUST 1 - he flip flops

Obama Opens the Door to Offshore Drilling

By Jonathan Weisman WaPo
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Sen. Barack Obama suggested he could accept an expansion of offshore oil drilling today if it is in a broader package of energy measures that would free the logjam on energy bills in Congress.

"My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.

"If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage -- I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done."

Republicans have consistently said they could craft legislation that would expand oil exploration on the outer continental shelf without jeopardizing delicate shoreline habitats. But Democratic leaders in Congress have been ardently opposed. Environmental groups, a key constituency, have been unyielding in their opposition.

Instead, Democrats crafted a rhetorical answer to the GOP's drilling campaign, calling on the oil companies to begin oil drilling on the millions of acres both on and offshore that have already been leased to them but remain untapped. Obama has taken up that line as part of his standard stump speech.

But with rising gasoline prices, polls indicate the voters are increasingly with the Republicans, even here in Florida, where opposition to offshore drilling has always been strong. McCain switched his own position on the issue, and recently brought along with him Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who had been opposed.

Now Obama opened the door to his own shift.

"The Republicans and the oil companies have been really beating the drums on drilling," Obama said in the Post interview. "And so we don't want gridlock. We want to get something done."

Obama, through his Senate office, issued a written statement welcoming a proposal sent to Senate leaders Friday by 10 senators -- five from each party -- that would lift drilling bans in the eastern Gulf of Mexico within 50 miles of Florida's beaches and in the South Atlantic off Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, but only if a state agrees to the oil and gas development along its coast. The states would share in revenues from oil and gas development.
Drilling bans along the Pacific coast and the Northeast would remain in place under this compromise.

The compromise "would repeal tax breaks for oil companies so that we can invest billions in fuel-efficient cars, help our automakers re-tool, and make a genuine commitment to renewable sources of energy like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of clean, affordable biofuels," Obama noted