Obama's First Oval Office Address: A Personal Decision to Focus on Gulf Spill

In his speech in the Oval Office last night, Obama lied, AGAIN to the American public. He said that 'for decades, we've known that fossil fuels would be used up'. LIE, Mr. President...according to Kipplinger Magazine, the U.S. has enough oil reserves to power us for 300 years, without having to import ANY oil from OPEC. There is enough in CO., UT., and WY. to power the U.S. for 200 years. There is 2.3 trillion bbls of untapped oil. 3 times more than OPEC.
NOW!!! Mr. President, you want to try that AGAIN? This time TELL THE TRUTH. Don't try to sell America short just so you can push your climate change agenda, which is ALSO a lie.

has everyone forgot that obama approved offshore oil drilling months before oil spill?...........

My only advice to Obama in these difficult situations is, Winners take responsibility and lead. Losers blame others!

I am curious as to what is going to happen when a tropical storm or even worse a hurricane picks the oil up and spreads into plant life and covers homes...oil is lighter than water which means we will experience oil rain. The insurance companies will bail out most assuredly and this means the gulf coast will become a dead zone...so very sad!

ANd why wouldnt he talk about the Gulf Spill? Its another perfect example of what happens in the United States when there is no over sight, no regulations and the MME is corrupt. Oil spills have more than doubled since 2000. There is no difference between the Gulf and Wall Street. Both perfect examples of what happens when regulatory branch is reduced to nothing and the very ones regulating are asleep or high at the switch. And now I wish just one of you would research and find out which party is no proposing that WE the tax payers bail out BP with the clean up. Its John Boehner (R) from Ohio. GO figure.

This oil spill has been going on to long. Why hasn't the goverment stepped in and taken more control. I live on the West Coast of Florida where fishing is a living for people. We want more to be done. I'm not a fisherman, but I do have a large pleasure boat. Who do I turn to for repairs when the oil damages my boat?

He better focus: Evidence is mounting that BP's actions fractured the rock strata around the wellhead, which is a whole different order of magnitude for this disaster.

Fractured strata means that there could be hundreds of leak-points, which will be impossible to contain. Drilling relief wells won't work if the rock down thousands of feet is fractured.

We may well have to implode that whole area to collapse the strata on itself. That will require a nuke!

Here is something for everyone to chew on. The dispersment chemicals being used to break up the oil look like food to the fish. The fish eat the chemicals then we eat the fish. The long term health care cost of this accident is immeasurable. This insanity of drilling off shore has to end now.

So today we find out that the Dutch offered to send 20 skimmers with about 500k gallon a day capacity ... offer turned down
The DUTCH offered to send dredges to build the berms on day 3 ...offer turned down
I guess it must be REALLY HARD to waive the Jones act.
I won't be surprised if they knew how to plug the hole too! Best to not find out that that was turned down too.
The President is everything but an executive and THATS what he is SUPPOSED to be!

President Obama is our Commander in Chief regardless of whether or not you voted for him. He needs to demonstrate leadership and accountability when it comes to this disaster. Some of his comments seem quite dismissive to me when he talks about how the ecosystem is strong and it will come back in one to three years. That is very long time when you are a fisherman in the region. I appreciate his optimism and I'm confident that he's correct. That doesn't provide immediate relief or solutions, however. http://www.janethinz.com