Obama wants to curb U.S. oil imports by a third

[ProSense]

Obama wants to curb U.S. oil imports by a third

By Alister Bull

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will set an ambitious goal on Wednesday to cut U.S. oil imports by a third over 10 years, focusing on energy security amid high gasoline prices that could stall the country's economic recovery.

Obama will outline his strategy in a speech after spending days explaining U.S.-led military action in Libya, where fighting, accompanied by popular unrest elsewhere in the Arab world, has helped push gasoline prices toward $4 a gallon.

Discussing the speech, the Democratic president said the country must increase its energy independence.

"What we were talking about was breaking the pattern of being shocked at high prices and then, as prices go down, being lulled into a trance, but instead let's actually have a plan," Obama told party activists in New York late on Tuesday.

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[leveymg]

1. More nukes, right? Is that the plan, Mr. President?

If so, this would be the worst sort of opportunism.

[ProSense]

4. You're right,

energy dependency is the better plan.

His speech is today.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Easy. accept GOP cuts, lower employment severely,

create a depression, allow bankers to rip us off blind, and pretty soon consumption will be significantly down.

[RC]

5. That is the plan now. It's working well.

[ProSense]

6. That's

not the plan.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. Want in one hand....you know what to do in the other....Mr Carter

and his policies should have NOT been thrown out the window by the republicons years ago. We wouldnt be in this condition now.

[msongs]

7. about time he talked about speculator oil scams/oil companies who pay no taxes on record profits nt

[phleshdef]

8. He has BEEN talking about those things, especially the companies, for quite awhile now.

You've been too busy writing snarky posts and LOLing on the internet to notice.

[young but wise]

9. K&R