Today Obama came out in favor of the XL pipeline. He was against it before he was for it.
Only it is for the southern part of the pipeline. The northern part is still in limbo.
Obama has said repeatedly that "there is no silver bullet" to lower gase prices.
Obama says that his decision is the answer to lower gas prices.
Obama says the Congress is to blame for the delay. Congress passed legislation in November, 2011 to approve the pipeline and Obama vetoed it.
Obama says that he had to review the northern part of the pipeline personally before he can approve it. The pipeline was approved in the Bush years and all of the EPA surveys were already signed off on. All Obama had to do back in June of last year was sign a document acknowledging what had already been signed.
Obama says that the US has 5% of the population and uses 20% of the world's oil. What does this have to do with anything if it was true. The US has over 20% of the worlds reachable oil, more than Saudi Arabia with the new shale finds. By the way, Saudia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, etc have over 30% of the world's oil but only about .7% of the world's population.
Obama thinks we are really stupid if he expects us to believe this. Okay CJ go ahead and show us.