Papantonio: Obama Is An Oil President, Period.

[GoLeft TV]

If you were to take 90 countries around the world (according to their GDP ranking) and compare the entire economies of those countries against the economy of Exxon, you’d find that Exxon would be more economically powerful than all of those 90 countries. Where do sales analysis of $30 billion a year leave a company like Exxon, Shell, or BP? The simple answer is: it leaves them with complete control of our lives.

What does that kind of money buy? It buys presidents and the entire military industrial complex, all so big oil can become bigger oil.

Mike Papantonio discusses this with author and Rolling Stone contributor Antonia Juhasz.

Ring of Fire.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. I am not going to comment on this allegation, other than to say the ONLY reason ANY rightwinger

opposes Obama is because he is a black man with a Muslim name

period

end of story

you can prove that over and over and over by showing how mainstream Obama is and so on

[WillTwain]

4. Mike Papantonio is a flaming lefty.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

8. He is a great liberal, on my side of the issues always...If he says it is true, it probably is.

The bigger picture of oil and wall street is the focus, for me

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Yeah, man

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[4dsc]

2. And what exactly is the alternative to oil at this time?

Nothing. I'll save you time here. Oil is a transportation fuel for which there is not an alternative.

[WillTwain]

5. Transportation fuels will be oil-based for a long time.

They are a small fraction of oil usage, though.

[4dsc]

16. BS alert here

The world's transportation is run on oil and there is nothing currently available that would replace it. FACT.

[WillTwain]

18. Aircraft

[MrMickeysMom]

17. Putting my boots on.. meanwhile, here's some cold water ...

Here's something to explain what we've been READY to do from the Carter administration. This is from a blog based in Pennsylvania to address how we change the in-place rail infrastructure of the past in the future.
Building a Non - Oil Based Transportation System
The basis for the proposal in the 2008 "Transport Revolutions - Moving People and Freight Without Oil" by Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl for an electrically powered transportation system is oil scarcity and peak oil.

As they explain, "The skill and effort needed to remove existing policies and dismantle established programmes is far from trivial. Lack of focus on policy termination has undermined many efforts by leaders - across the spectrum of political orientation - to change the direction of U.S. policy. These efforts include, for example, the Carter administration's agenda of government leadership in energy conservation of the late 1970s and the Reagan administration's goal of replacing Social Security pensions with private alternatives in the 1980s. Failures to terminate existing policies have undermined the key priorities of more than these presidents. One analyst noted that the political dynamics of terminating established public policies differ fundamentally from those involved in creating new policies because '...distinctive coalitions generally form on both sides... and that termination contests are usually more bitter and harder to win than most policy adoption contests.'"

"Policy termination." What a useful phrase. It describes in two words the current conflict in the political process. Improved and / or new policy and/ or adjusted policy often requires "policy termination." Gilbert and Perl provide ideas as to how to engage in "policy termination" specific to creating a transport revolution ...

Read it-
http://testplant.blogspot.com/2012/05/building-non-oil-based-transportation.html

[DeSwiss]

11. !

[heaven05]

3. yeah and way before Obama

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we've been and are an oil greed society with oil greedy SUV's, Dodge Rams, Lincoln Escalades. Please!

[WillTwain]

6. The president has a mixed record on oil issues.

He has opened up many new areas to drilling. He has been strong on setting higher mileage goals for cars. So, his record is mixed. Overall, he has been a good environmental president.

[imthevicar]

12. Except,

He's ready to sell out to the TPP!

[WillTwain]

14. Mixed: one part environmental, two parts corporate

[enough]

7. In our current era ANY President of the United States is an oil president.

So will the next one be, no matter who it is.

Our politics, media, and election system will have to change drastically before a non-oil president can ever be elected.

[father founding]

9. wolf in sheeps jubbas .

Obama is a corporatist.

[imthevicar]

13. WORD!

[blkmusclmachine]

10. No

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