Environment

Obama Admin Goes on Energy-Related PR Blitz

According to a new poll, 65 percent of Americans find the administration’s handling of energy issues unsatisfactory. So obviously, the White House is doing their very best to do damage control by pushing everything from press conferences to interviews by the President on local news. Politico has video of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney trying to spin the issue:

The accompanying story fills in the rest of the picture:

Obama will try to counteract that by sitting down for several local TV news interviews, including visits with anchors from the electoral battlegrounds of Cincinnati, Denver, Des Moines, Las Vegas, Orlando and Pittsburgh.

The White House also tried to get a jump on the news cycle with a 6 a.m. release of a report describing its efforts to curb foreign oil imports and boost domestic production of fossil fuels.

And Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and White House energy adviser Heather Zichal joined press secretary Jay Carney in the briefing room Monday afternoon.

Along with their PR blitz, the administration also released a “Progress Report” for March 2012 discussing the administration’s efforts to lower energy prices. Their findings may surprise some readers:

The United States: Domestic oil and natural gas production has increased every year President Obama has been in office. In 2011, U.S. crude oil production reached its highest level since 2003, increasing by an estimated 120,000 barrels per day over 2010 levels to 5.6 million barrels per day. In addition, U.S. natural gas production grew by more than 7 percent in 2011 – the largest year-over-year volumetric increase in history – and easily eclipsed the previous production record set in 1973. Currently, the United States has a record number of oil and gas rigs operating – more than the rest of the world combined.

In November 2011, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the proposed 2012-2017 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, which makes more than 75 percent of estimated undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf available for exploration and development. The proposed program schedules 15 potential lease sales, 12 in the Gulf of Mexico and 3 off the coast of Alaska. Over the coming months, DOI will be working to finalize the Program, building on feedback received during the public comment period, which recently concluded.

On December 14, 2011, DOI held the first oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. The sale attracted nearly $338 million in total bids – about $100 million more than the average for Western Gulf sales over the previous decade. Moving forward, DOI will hold the consolidated Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 in New Orleans on June 20, 2012. The sale will include all available unleased areas – nearly 38 million acres – in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

However, the President‘s critics aren’t convinced. Sean Hackbarth at the US Chamber of Commerce laced into the report on the Chamber’s blog today:

Also as part of their media push, the White House produced an infographic explaining gas prices, but they’re too clever by half. A section is titled, “Increased Production Doesn’t Lower Gas Prices” and has some graphs making their argument.

Let me get this straight: The administration prides itself for increased domestic oil and gas production, but implies that more oil doesn’t have anything to do with gas prices, because the biggest factor in gas prices is the world market price. They’re both trying to take credit and deflect blame.

If the effort is as weak as Hackbarth insinuates, then it will do little to make the President’s dropping poll numbers improve.

Comments (46)

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  • thibx
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:50am

    do they think we are all idiots i heard him say he wanted gas to go to $7 a gal. that was before he was elected. if this dumbass (educated fool) is not thrown out of office we will not recognize our country.

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  • dawg71
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 2:33am

    trying to take credit and deflect blame sounds like someone is off their meds.

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:40am

      Not really off their meds, they are overdosing on them, as they can not cope with the reality of the fact that both their agenda and policy initiatives have and continue to fail at increasingly exponential rates. The only good part about the negative affect on the American people is that hopefully enough of them realize that the Imposter-in-Chief has been a gross failure, and send him home to Africa or any other country that will take him in the Fall of 2012.

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  • destrecht
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:10pm

    It’s so easy to fix. It’s the speculators. They look at the long term value of gas and oil. If it’s hard to get- ie it has a lot of regulations, they bet on it. If it isn’t hard to get, they find something else to invest in, returning it to a reasonable price. With the regs and all the complaining about frakking, of course they see long term problems.

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  • 65Mustang
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:48pm

    I have absolutely run out of anymore words to describe this man and my contempt for him and everything that he has done to degrade this country.

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    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:27pm

      I agree with your comments. It is amazing that he thinks more speeches with the same garbage will defect blame for the high gasoline and high food costs. The economy is going to tank because of this moron.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:46am

      Communists are ideologues. Rhetoric “IS” only theater to them. Even what’s left of our capitalist markets still provides a better indicator of their actions than their words.

      But lies are fundamental to communist dogma. obango can’t stop the lie now. He has sold his soul and the collections are really strict.

      Sadly, the dregs of the democrats have little in the way of mental capacity to see beyond their own sad lives. democrats couldn’t follow a rope.

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  • tmplarnite
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:45pm

    This should be about BRINGING MOOCHELLE and BUGROCK OBAMA to JUSTICE!

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  • db321
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:45pm

    Everyone knows the biggest problem facing America is our College Girls cant get Birth Control – Mr. Methane and Chief has definitely identify attack the problem head on. If Geyser Ears and his Media had not told me of the problem I would have never known.

    Approving the Pipe line was just to easy for a Man with such Natural Gas Wisdom – he needs a bigger challenge like finding another Country that will allow him to become the Dictator. Best of luck finding on Obama.

    And Obama – if you do find another Country to become Dictator of – Just know – America has your back.

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  • discus02
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:33pm

    Chicago Politician says it all!

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  • HTuttle
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:06pm

    “”They’re both trying to take credit and deflect blame.”

    The pretty much defines Obama’s entire life.

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    • db321
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:36pm

      Approval Polls are down – at this point I don’t care if Gas drops to .25cents a gallon – only a fool would vote for this idiot!

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  • mayihelpyou
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:01pm

    Who knew the Big O administration doesn’t have a clue? (Please, everyone put your hands down, the question was rhetorical).
    But here’s something else blazers may not know. At Whitehouse.gov there are two petitions. One to kick Rush Limbaugh off the Armed Forces Network and one to keep him on. 21000 leftists lowlifes have signed to remove him. As of right now only 153 have signed to keep him. Sign the one to keep him here:
    https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/#!/petition/keep-rush-limbaugh-afn-radio-equally-target-liberal-entertainers-who-offend-us-dont-threaten-free/cNSg8LMv.

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  • BillnGA
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:50pm

    “Bummer” needs to drive his Chev Volt on his PR bulls$%t…….I mean blitz.

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  • AxelPhantom
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:35pm

    “Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the second world war. Why? Because we have 11,000 giga-tons of carbon in the coal reserves in the soil under our feet and we must emit only 400 giga-tons in the atmosphere if we want to keep the 2 degree target. 11,000 minus 400, there is no getting around the fact that most of the fossil reserves must remain in the soil. De facto this means and expropriation of the countries with natural resources. This leads to a very different development from that which has been triggered by development policy.” Ottomar Edenhofer – UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Agenda 21).

    “Under my system of cap and trade, energy costs would necessarily skyrocket” Obama

    “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s emitted.”

    The president has made good on his promise. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has squeezed coal producers in its campaign to halt carbon dioxide, the same “greenhouse gas” all animals produce when exhaling.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:27pm

    Wish they mentioned the “videos” they have on the youtube commercials too….with bar charts even!! They are so full of excrement their colons are about to explode and further send a stink across this Great Nation!!!!

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:24pm

    It’s not a PR blitz. It’s a BS blitz. The piles are gettin‘ bigger and the shovels are gettin’ smaller.

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  • Carefreeflyer
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:14pm

    White House PR Blitz = more blatant lies.

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    • BetterInformed
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:34pm

      Let’s hear from the brilliant liberals. Tell how anything carney said made any sense. Afraid to get some of that stuff on ya?

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 10:16pm

      Dear President Dumbo. Bottom line……… people will only notice the numbers on the pump. Fluke us all day and night, one trip to the gas station will trump talk.

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:01pm

    hmmmm….wait a second, since all the liberals believe in sitting at home and not working and living on food stamps, and if Gas stays high at 5 pg? And since Conservatives believe in working and earning money, maybe we will be the only ones that can afford to drive and vote

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    • artistskeptic
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:36pm

      Democrat and rational energy policy are mutually exclusive. Jimmah Carter, on April 7, 1977 killed the American development of nuclear energy with his “we will indefinitely defer development of commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing. Prior to idiot Carter’s decree the industry had established active programs for reprocessing of spent fuels to recover useable uranium , isolation of useable plutonium for mixed oxide reactors and containment of high level waste into very small volumes for permanent disposal in a controlled site along with DOD waste, suspected to be deep in Yucca mountain. As a potential future energy source the breeder reactor was also under active development at a site at Clinch River, Tn. The potential for energy today increasing for energy tomorrow with hazards controlled by the lightwater reactor recycle technology. But NO, dumbass Jimmah chose to stop everything rather than introduce whatever rational or irrational concerns he could identify. In a capital intensive industry the Carter dumbass move meant financal disaster and billions of dollars invested in the recycle system and future disposal and regeneration technologies were chocked to death by the ignorant Jimmah Carter, can‘t understand why the ignorant bastard hasn’t died an excruciating death by now.

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  • I SPY
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:00pm

    Worst president in USA history.

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  • possom
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:58pm

    Everybody should buy a chevy volt, I heard they come with free fire extinguisher’s.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:10pm

      Yeah, umm, about that…..To cut cost, all of the extinguishers are the wrong type.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:42am

      Only if they offer a $45,000 tax rebate and a very long extensiion cord.

      OMG

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:45pm

    Worst president in American history…………..and the biggest Liar ever on record.

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  • APEXGT
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:41pm

    It is so sad the lies coming out of this administration. If He gets in again this country is done!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • whereareyourbrains
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:35pm

    The man is Hitler re incarnated.

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  • youdidthis
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:34pm

    Outrageous: TSA shake-down quadruple amputee at Phoenix airport
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKxMkt8Y6_0&feature=player_embedded

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  • whereareyourbrains
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:34pm

    http://www.enotes.com/history/discuss/why-did-normal-germans-follow-hitler-his-nazi-92365

    This man is running our country the same way as the man above.

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  • whereareyourbrains
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:31pm

    http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar7.htm

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:30pm

    When gas hit $4 a gallon, Sen Obama was leading the charge to blame Pres. Bush. It was his fault, he wasn’t doing enough for the folks. Now that he is in charge, it’s “What can I do, its speculators, it’s the energy companies, its the___________” Not his fault. He inherited from his predecessor. Blah, blah, blah.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:53pm

      Yes .. it would be funny if not so disgusting….. what a hypocritical JERK!

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  • Ducky 1
    Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:30pm

    Bull Crap!

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