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President-Elect Obama Insists America Must Break Its Addiction to Foreign Oil

In his first interview since winning the presidency, Barack Obama sat down for a lengthy discussion with Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes that was broadcast nationwide Sunday night. Among the many topics the President-elect spoke about were the country’s addiction to foreign oil and the longstanding American habit of not developing and implementing an energy plan. A key portion of their conversation follows:

(CBS) Kroft: When the price of oil was at $147 a barrel, there were a lot of spirited and profitable discussions that were held on energy independence. Now you’ve got the price of oil under $60.

Mr. Obama: Right.

Kroft: Does doing something about energy is it less important now than…

Mr. Obama: It’s more important. It may be a little harder politically, but it’s more important.

Kroft: Why?

Mr. Obama: Well, because this has been our pattern. We go from shock to trance. You know, oil prices go up, gas prices at the pump go up, everybody goes into a flurry of activity. And then the prices go back down and suddenly we act like it’s not important, and we start, you know filling up our SUVs again.

And, as a consequence, we never make any progress. It’s part of the addiction, all right. That has to be broken. Now is the time to break it.

CLICK HERE TO SEND THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AN EMAIL AND LET HIM KNOW YOU AGREE THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO BREAK OUR ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL.

CLICK HERE TO READ OR WATCH THE INTERVIEW.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 16th, 2008 at 11:33 pm by Eric in Pickens Plan.
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Comments2 Responses to “President-Elect Obama Insists America Must Break Its Addiction to Foreign Oil”

November 18th, 2008 at 7:44 am

Gerald McClain


All we need is a conservation plan with the Pickens’s Plan that includes Geothermal Heat Pumps. GHP will save at least 50% in energy savings in each house or business that it is installed. President-Elect Obama is the only one who has mentioned Geothermal Heat Pumps in his new energy plan. Congress has added its 2 cents by offering $2000 tax credits for Home owners who install GHP and 10% tax credits for Businesses. Wake up and smell mother earth’s conservation plan to save energy. For more information go to www.igshpa.okstate.edu.

November 20th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Tom Mason


11/ 20/2008 We are in Chaozhou, Guangdon, China, and the price of gasoline is around $4.00 a gallon. Gasoline prices are being held high here in China to hold down consumption and curtail automobile purchases. All artificial controls to help polution, keep people with money from spending money, and give the gov more time to build more infrastructure. One day, soon, the gov will drop prices of gas, free up car buying, push industry and then the consuption of oil will skyrocket and the price of gas will go to $10.00 per gallon worldwide. It may be a couple of years, but, my friends, $10.00 per gallon is coming.

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