Above is a political cartoon about energy, from 2008.\u00a0 In his latest email Bill McKibben of 350.org says,<\/p>\n
“Most of us like what President Obama campaigned for. But after taking office, he has not acted courageously on climate and energy issues. In fact, just a month ago he ended a longstanding moratorium on new offshore oil drilling. He told Americans it was safe. Hopefully this tragedy will be a wake up call that can help President Obama see that he was wrong.”<\/p>\n
It is unlikely that President Obama will ‘wake up’ and see he was wrong about anything having to do with drilling for oil.\u00a0\u00a0 There is ample evidence that President Obama intends for the use of fossil fuels to grow a lot in the next few years.\u00a0\u00a0 There is little\u00a0 indication that he feels drilling for oil in the oceans around the United States is something we should not do, even after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank and now is gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
To say this is disappointing is an understatement.\u00a0\u00a0 ‘Business as usual’ is not really what we expected from President Obama.\u00a0 The reason I finally ended up supporting President Obama (after supporting several other people) was because he said we have to fight climate change with the equivalent of an “Apollo program”.\u00a0 By November 2008,\u00a0 I believed it was realistic to think that he would, as a Democrat, fight climate change seriously,\u00a0 and work to end our dependence on fossil fuels.\u00a0 His campaign rhetoric on climate change and energy was the main reason many environmentally-aware people voted for him.\u00a0 But now, at this point, I don’t believe Obama ever intended to fight climate change seriously,\u00a0 and that it was all just a lot of campaign-speak. \u00a0 It’s seems to me now that his campaign promises to\u00a0 “environmental types” was just to placate us and get us to vote for him.\u00a0\u00a0 President Obama is our first Greenwash President.<\/p>\n
The reasons I no longer trust Obama will do the right thing on climate are many:\u00a0 he wants to give billions in government money to “clean coal” technology, which is like throwing money down the toilet.\u00a0 Coal will never be clean.\u00a0 Surely he knows that. \u00a0 He wants to give coal and other fossil fuel companies big allowances in the future energy and “climate” cap and trade bill — a bill that has been endorsed by anti-environmentalists and by big oil companies.\u00a0 He wants us to start drilling offshore for oil again, in deep pockets of oil miles under the ocean surface.\u00a0 (To what end?\u00a0 It will still run out.)\u00a0 And he never intended for the U.S. to stop using oil, until it was all gone.\u00a0 He never intended for us to stop using coal and he has even called natural gas “clean”.\u00a0 It is clear the President Obama feels oil and coal will be a part of our energy sources until at least 2035, (despite the problem of peak oil having [...]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Above is a political cartoon about energy, from 2008.\u00a0 In his latest email Bill McKibben of 350.org says, “Most of us like what President Obama campaigned for. But after taking office, he has not acted courageously on climate and energy … Continue reading