“The candidates with the Washington experience — my opponents — are good people. They mean well. But they’ve been in Washington for a long time, and even with all that experience they talk about, nothing has happened. This country didn’t raise fuel efficiency standards for over 30 years. So what have we got for all that experience? Gas that’s approaching $4 a gallon, because you can fight all you want inside Washington, but until you change the way it works, you won’t be able to make the changes Americans need.”
- Senator Barack Obama, 25 April 2008
“In the end, we’ll only ease the burden of gas prices on our families
when Hoosiers and people all across America say ‘enough.’ It’s time to
free ourselves from the tyranny of oil and stop funding both sides in
the war on terror. I’ve been a strong supporter of ethanol. Corn-based
ethanol is a transitional technology.”
- Senator Barack Obama, 25 April 2008
- Senator Barack Obama, 25 April 2008
“But the truth is, there is no easy answer to our energy crisis — and
we need a president who’s going to be straight with us about that; a
president who’s going to tell the American people not just what they
want to hear, but what they need to know.”
- Senator Barack Obama, 11 May 2008
“I think that… we have been slow to move in a better direction when
it comes to energy usage. And the president, frankly, hasn’t had an
energy policy. And as a consequence we’ve been consuming energy as if
it’s infinite. We now know that our demand is badly outstripping supply
with China and India growing as rapidly as they are. … I think that I
would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a
shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing. But if we take some
steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by
putting more money in their pockets, but also by encouraging the market
to adapt to these new circumstances more rapidly, particularly U.S.
automakers.”
- Senator Barack Obama, 11 June 2008
Translation: “Suck it up, buttercup. Buy a Volt.”
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“But the Administration’s greatest contribution to the rising oil
prices is its steady stream of threats to attack Iran if it does not
back down on the nuclear issue. The Iranians have made it plain that
they would retaliate by attempting to block the flow of Gulf oil and
otherwise cause turmoil in the energy market. Most analysts assume,
therefore, that an encounter will produce a global oil shortage and
prices well over $200 per barrel. It is not surprising, then, that every
threat by Bush/Cheney (or their counterparts in Israel) has triggered a
sharp rise in prices. This is where speculators enter the picture.
Believing that a U.S.-Iranian clash is at least 50 percent likely, some
investors are buying futures in oil at $140, $150 or more per barrel,
thinking they’ll make a killing if there’s an attack and prices zoom
over $200.”
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