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By Blocking Gulf Drilling, Obama Costs Jobs and Raises Gas Prices

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sharon of NY 12:55AM October 14, 2011

A SURE RECIPE FOR ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION
1. Prohibit energy production in your country. Even natural gas, hydroelectric and nuclear.
2. Spend billions on inefficient, expensive, unreliable, environmentally destructive and totally inadequate "green energy".
3. Chase companies out of America with draconian, dogmatic, "enviro-regs".
4. Send money to other countries so they can develop their resources and then sell them to us at a huge profit.
5. Strangle food production with ethanol subsidies and onerous green regulations on fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, water and even "farm dust".
The Greens have marched into a world of absolute religious fanaticism. And Obama is leading the parade.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 4:13PM October 12, 2011

obummer is way out of his league and lacks the understanding of how the world works. Like most libs it’s not what reality is, but what they want it to be or think it should be.
How much money would Americans be spending on other things if they were not spending 3 - 4 dollars for a gallon of gas. Take me for example, to fill-up my truck cost $120 -$150 every 10- 14 days, let's just make it 15 days to make things easy. So I am spending $300 a month and if gas prices were back to the level they were when obummer took office I would be spending $150 a month, leaving me with $150 to spend of who knows what. So one person would have an additional $1,800 a year to spend. Now multiply that by just 4 million people, then figure in the taxes that would be collected in all the transactions and the demand it would create in the market. Then add the jobs that would be created in the oil industry and the tax dollars that would create.
No, we don't need cheap energy in this country. We should just sit on all of our reserves and put Americans through hard times just because he wants the dream of green energy. At the same time giving billions to people that hate us.
Clueless
2012 can't get here soon enough
And I would also like to say that Mr. Herman Cain is starting to grow on me. Straight talk, Follows the KISS method when solving a problem, and has plenty of experience.
BTW, how could anyone stand in support of the domestic terrorist that are running around all over this country protesting “something”, I guess that is what todays democratic party has become. Truman must be turning in his grave, “The buck stop where ever I point my finger”.

Larry of CA 12:53PM October 12, 2011