Obama chooses Venezuela over Canada in Keystone cop-out
Obama picks Marxist dictator Chavez’s oil instead of ethical Canadian oil choosing Hollywood celebs over middle class workers. What a hypocrite.
Michael Whipple, Editor usACTIONnews.com
Obama picks Marxist dictator Chavez’s oil instead of ethical Canadian oil choosing Hollywood celebs over middle class workers. What a hypocrite.
One Canadian writer says Obama’s decision was about the millions his Hollywood supporters could raise for his campaign calling the decision a “disgrace.”
Ezra Levant writing in the Toronto Sun:
“That pipeline would have delivered 700,000 barrels of oil every day from Canada … .Which is almost precisely the amount of oil Venezuela now ships to the United States, to those same refineries in Texas.
Hugo Chavez, the bully ruler of Venezuela, is a serial human rights violator.He’s a Marxist, too, but that’s a different matter. According to impeccably liberal human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Chavez has shredded civil liberties in Venezuela — crushing independent labour unions, shutting down newspapers and radio stations that disagree with him ….
And Chavez’s new ally is none other than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — the two men share a hatred for Americans. … If it weren’t for oil revenues, they’d both have been toppled by now.
Venezuela sells an enormous amount of oil to the U.S. About 800,000 barrels a day. At a hundred bucks a barrel, that’s $80 million a day.
That’s about $30 billion a year America pays to its greatest enemy in the western hemisphere.
It’s not just conflict oil, though. Venezuelan oil is some of the most carbon-intense oil in the world — even more so than Canada’s oilsands.”
Mr Levant is right. It is an absolute disgrace. While Obama kills the American oil pipeline and drilling for domestic oil the threats from Iran are expected to drive up the price of gasoline and oil. Thank an environmentalist wacko from Hollywood and Obama for $5 gas.
The Obama administration seems to be doing everything it can to raise the price of energy. This is slowing the economy, killing jobs, hurting the poor and the middle class and raising the cost of virtually everything.
Environmentalists don’t want oil drilling and they don’t care that this reduces supply and raises prices. In fact, they want prices to rise.
Obama’s energy secretary Steven Chu is on the record as having said we need higher gas prices like those in Europe. Obama warned us during his 2008 campaign that “under my plan electricity rates will necessarily have to skyrocket.”
Are we going to believe what Obama SAYS or what he DOES?
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