Drill Brazil Drill

Some people might say that the Japan tsunami and the unrest in the middle east might be reasons enough to “drill baby, drill”. But that’s not how the left sees it. Certainly not Obama. As you will see, my take on this is simple. The President is being quite consistent when he urges Brazil to drill, but not the folks in Louisiana.

It is actually mind boggling, when you think about it. The “green President”, who insists that America needs to free itself of foreign dependance of oil, through solar, wind, nuclear (I think) and coal, but not oil, takes a break from his busy site seeing schedule to urge Brazil to drill baby, drill, so we can someday import Brazilian oil.

His “What, me worry?” presidency has given both Americans and our allies plenty to worry about. But in the process of making nice with Brazil, Obama made a mind-boggling announcement that should make even his most loyal supporter cringe:

We will help Brazil develop its offshore oil so we can one day import it.

We have noted this double standard before, particularly when — at a time when the president was railing against tax incentives for U.S. oil companies — we supported the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s plan to lend $2 billion to Brazil’s state-run Petrobras with the promise of more to follow.

Now, with a seven-year offshore drilling ban in effect off of both coasts, on Alaska’s continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico — and a de facto moratorium covering the rest — Obama tells the Brazilians:

“We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.”

Obama wants to develop Brazilian offshore oil to help the Brazilian economy create jobs for Brazilian workers while Americans are left unemployed in the face of skyrocketing energy prices by an administration that despises fossil fuels as a threat to the environment and wants to increase our dependency on foreign oil.

Now while you do a slow burn, consider this. Imagine your were brought up with an ideology that preached that America stole the world’s resources, or at least gobbled up, at the expense of poor people around the world. Imagine you were taught that Americans were selfish, greedy, imperialists, that built wealth on the backs of the poor around the world. Then you can make sense of a President who tells workers in Louisiana to stop, because America has it’s “fair share”, while telling Brazil … go for it baby.

Spreading the wealth around, for a true blue socialist, goes far beyond domestic taxation. To a true Marxist it means literally spreading the wealth, income and resources, around … the world.

You see, it does make sense, comrades.

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

12 Comments

  1. doughboy on March 22, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    No suprise Petrobras the Brazilian oil company has George Soros as a minority stock holder.

    Obama is down there to protect his big liberal buddies interests.Who knows maybe he will offer them an lease on drilling in the Rockies, which is purported to be extremely rch in oil reserves.



  2. winnie888 on March 23, 2011 at 3:42 am

    He's selling out the U.S. one vacation at a time.  Period.  What an embarrassment.



  3. sammy22 on March 23, 2011 at 4:42 am

    In the absence of an energy policy (that's our Congress for you), it's impossible to have a coherent story to tell. Floundering is the result.



  4. NH-Jim on March 23, 2011 at 5:18 am

    Will the "One" administration declare a moratorium on Brazilian drilling when a spill occurs with one of their rigs?  <a title="Gulf Stream – Guyanna Current" href="http://poetsgulfcoast.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/gulfstream.jpg&quot; rel="nofollow">The Guyanna Current meets the Gulf Stream current bringing that water right up our coastline.



  5. Dimsdale on March 23, 2011 at 5:34 am

    I wonder how Øbama and the greenies reconcile the promotion of drilling etc. in Brazil and elsewhere with the "it's one world, spaceship Earth" mantra?



  6. GdavidH on March 23, 2011 at 6:49 am

    Make no mistake, this is about redistribution of wealth….on a global scale!



    • Dimsdale on March 23, 2011 at 8:25 am

      Isn't it remarkable how that always seems to be the underlying motive (unless it is the redistribution of the lefty's personal wealth of course….)?



  7. sammy22 on March 23, 2011 at 10:36 am

    Ahhhhhh. The fear of those monsters under the bed will never go away.



  8. Dimsdale on March 24, 2011 at 6:35 am

    Sometimes, the monsters are real.  The "Robin Hood" motive of the lefties is all too real…



    • GdavidH on March 24, 2011 at 10:57 am

      I don't think the Robin Hood analogy is correct here. He was not exactly robbing from the rich to give to the poor. The way I understand it he was taking back from a corrupt governmental ruling class that was purposely impoverishing the people……Oh, wait a minute…..maybe you are right.



  9. sammy22 on March 24, 2011 at 7:31 am

    And so are the "Reds are Coming" fears of the righties.



  10. JollyRoger on March 24, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    We almost bankrupted China by selling them opium.  We will be bankrupted spending too much for something that we could grow, or drill for, in our own back yard!



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