Obama "Greener" Than Harper? Think Again

[Anonymous]

Technology(improved fracking) can take credit for the US fossil fuel energy boom, Obama takes credit for it(he is a politician after all). At the same time our own PM is called a climate criminal by the same massive carbon-footprint celebutard hypocrites who claim Obama is "green". The only green Obongo knows is the financial support of billionaires like Tom Steyer.

While Canada slept, the United States became a global energy superpower. Under Barack Obama. Yes, you read that right.



Under America's so-called "green" president, the U.S. has been digging up fossil fuels like stink, both for domestic use and for export to foreign markets.



All this while Stephen Harper, supposedly our fossil fuel-crazed prime minister, struggles to get a pipeline — any pipeline — built.



This in order to move Canada's oil and natural gas resources, located in the centre of the country, to ports on our east and west coast and to the U.S. Gulf Coast in the south.



The U.S. has been able to do this while Obama — cheered on by hypocritical environmentalists, know-nothing celebrities and gullible Canadian opposition parties — tut-tuts about our oil sands, an insignificant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions compared to U.S. coal production alone, let alone oil and natural gas.



Under Obama, the U.S. is now the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas combined and of oil and natural gas liquids combined.



It surpassed Saudi Arabia as the largest producer of oil and liquified natural gas this year.



It surpassed Russia as the largest producer of natural gas in 2010.



Already the "Saudi Arabia of coal" — as Obama himself has described America — U.S. coal exports are at record levels.



While Obama's critics say the U.S. fossil fuel boom has occurred in spite of him rather than because of him, he's happy to take credit for it.



As Obama boasted in a 2012 speech at the Cushing Pipe Yard in Cushing, Oklahoma:



"Under my administration, America is producing more oil today that at any time in the last eight years ... Over the last three years, I've directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states.



"We're opening up more than 75% of our potential oil resources offshore. We've quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high. We've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some.



"So we are drilling all over the place ... In fact, the problem ... is that we're actually producing so much oil and gas ... that we don't have enough pipeline capacity to transport all of it where it needs to go — both to refineries and then, eventually, all across the country and around the world. There's a bottleneck ... because we can't get enough of the oil to refineries fast enough."



This is the same Obama whom Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau claims would have approved the U.S. portion of the Keystone XL pipeline by now, if Harper had put a price on carbon.



Really? Here's another part of Obama's speech.



"Right now, a company called TransCanada has applied to build a new pipeline to speed more oil from Cushing to state-of-the art refineries down on the Gulf Coast. And today, I'm directing my administration to cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucratic hurdles, and make this project a priority, to go ahead and get it done ..."



The pipeline Obama is referring to is the southern half of the Keystone XL.



That's as opposed to the northern half needed to get our oil sands oil to the Gulf Coast, vital to Canada's economic interests, that Obama refuses to approve.



Refuses even though his own state department told him twice after huge reviews that not only will it not significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions — which Obama claims is his concern — it will reduce them compared to any other alternative.



Finally, can someone tell Trudeau the U.S. hasn't put a price on carbon?



U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are down because the U.S. has been using fracking to free up vast reserves of natural gas, the cleanest fossil fuel, to replace coal, the dirtiest, in its electricity production.



That's fracking — which ignorant provincial politicians are banning in Canada under pressure from hypocritical protestors, who demonize Harper while giving Obama a free ride.



Apparently this is what happens when you're the U.S. president and call yourself "green", while criticizing Canada, aided and abetted by all the usual environmental suspects in Canada and the U.S. who have no idea of what they're talking about.



It's one thing for Americans to spew this nonsense.



But when Canadians do it, attacking our own economic self-interests in the process, while our U.S. neighbours laugh themselves all the way to the bank, it's appalling.​

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