Is this Obama’s Clean Energy Plan or Palin’s Drill Baby Drill?

[IndianaGreen]

Is this Obama’s Clean Energy Plan or Palin’s Drill Baby Drill?

On the heels of his victory on healthcare and student aid reform, President Obama announced today that he would kowtow to the oil industry and allow exploration and drilling in 167 million acres of coastal waters that have been protected for decades.

Obama's proposal would allow oil and gas exploration in the coastal waters of the southern Atlantic states and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, threatening fishing and tourism industries in those regions. But the news is even worse for Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, which are especially sensitive to oil drilling because they provide critical habitat for polar bears, whales, seals and other distinctive Arctic species.

Incredibly, despite dire warnings from the scientific community that we are approaching a tipping point in Earth's climate system, Mr. Obama has set us on a course toward more dependence on fossil fuels.

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The United States consumes 25 percent of the world’s oil, but has only three percent of the world’s reserves. In fact, the total oil reserves along our coast represent just a fraction of current U. S. demand, meaning we’ll still have to import plenty of oil from overseas.

Meanwhile, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that onshore U.S. wind resources could generate nearly 37 million gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean energy every year. That’s more than nine times the amount of energy Americans currently consume annually.

Video at link:

http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2010/03/31/is_this_obama_s_clean_energy_plan_or_pal

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Seem indistinguishable at this moment.

[niceypoo]

2. It seems...

..that the Republicans get whatever they want with Obama and we get a few token scraps. I just dont understand it.