Thank you, Mr. President

Mystic, NO subsidies have been removed, there was a vote to remove them, but money is undefeated in Washington!!!! Obama has said that if they can find a better route for Keystone he would OK it, and the designers have said that there is a better route, they just need to get the OK from the states. The moratorium on drilling was needed, the BP spill has cost the country tens of billions so far, and we still don't know how much it will cost in the next 20 years. Look at the Exxon spill in Alaska, Exxon got out of paying for the clean up. Even Sarah Palin called it WRONG!!!! I hate to tell you this, but US oil companies could careless about the United States of America!!! They will send our oil to the highest bidder no matter who that is. Oil companies were buying oil off of Iraq when we had an embargo, they are still buying oil off of Iran even though it is illegal. Oil companies don't care about people, they only care about money. If this oil company in Brazil is sign a contract saying they will send a certain amount of oil to us than that money was well spent. I have tried to explain to people for years that if we drill for oil on our own ground that doesn't mean it will stay here in the United States. We are sending oil overseas because they will pay more than we will. We are sending fuel overseas because they will pay more as well. It has NOTHING to do with supply or demand, it ONLY has to do with GREED!!! Does your state have an oil department with rigs and refineries? What you REALLY have is oil that it completely useless to you unless you sign an agreement to drill that oil, and keep it in the United States. When you hear these stats about how much oil you have in comparison to years for THIS country, you have to understand that we don't keep all of our oil now. So, what makes these people believe that the Saudi oil sands will last forever? We MAY be able to survive on our own oil in our own ground for thousands of years, but what is stopping the oil companies from sending OUR oil to foreign countries? NOTHING!!!! What China is doing now, is what started the first Gulf War, and our own policies caused it. We won't deal with a communist country 100 miles from us, but we will ship every job we can, and TRILLIONS to a communist country thousands of miles away that is now STEALING from us. Can someone explain that to me like I am a four year old? The reason they want the price high is so people will be forced to conserve energy. Right now we aren't growing more oil, the only thing we can do is try to become more efficient. Asking people to do it hasn't worked, taking inefficient products off the markets hasn't worked. It is a FACT that we could cut out ALL foreign oil imports if this country would seriously look at how much we waste on energy. You should also look at all of the jobs that have been lost by exporting jobs and intellectual property to China. Look at all of the jobs lost because of the BP oil spill. I can guarantee you they are more then 160,000. Big oil might not be friendly to him, but I am sure they will send a couple hundred million to this election campaign. The worse thing this country has ever done was start to trade with China. Years from now people will wonder what we were thinking!!!! If Ronald Reagan was alive he would be amazed at how we screwed this country up.

Oh, gosh, sorry, debater, but you might want to listen a little harder, too. The news tonight was talking about the subsidies that have just been removed from the oil companies. Yes, there have been many people speaking against the Keystone design and many who have come up with viable ideas to make it a stronger plan. Yes, the Republicans voted for that ignorant practice of subsidizing once again as did the Democrats. Yes, I'm well aware that we have been doing this for some time. Take for instance when we had moritoriums put on OUR oil, we handed good old Brazil a few billion for them to take a couple of our rigs to THEIR country. That was straight from Mr. President who lauded his decision by telling them the USA would be one of their best customers. Is he the first president to make these subsidies - not by a long shot, but he is the person in the office right now and he sure isn't doing anything to improve the situation. Yes, we are sending oil overseas, even more right now since we had a relatively warm winter in a large part of the country. I also know that in the little state I live in we have enough oil, shale, etc. to last the whole of the United States a minimum of twenty years. And that with all we have in the United States, we could probably last 200. I also know that one reason we do not drill a whole lot more has little to do with GREEN, purple, gray or pink. Many of our leaders believe if we take it easy on drilling our own, that eventually WE will be the primary provider because other countries will have used up their supplies. That won't happen in a couple of years, but it is looking far into the future, although not as far as you might think. Meanwhile, China is going off our shores and drilling deep and across to our fields. Of course, if other countries stay ahead of us as they are now in alternative energies, it will be a fruitless gesture, although oil will be used in other ways. I think we should most definitely work toward other energy forms, but for our President and his energy czar to want the price of gas for our cars to run wild is ridiculous and both of them do. That's from their own mouths. They just hadn't quite planned for it to happen before he is reelected. By the way, the 160,000 were not from the Keystone project, but from other jobs killed by moratoriums. I don't even attempt to know what the real figure would have been for Keystone since it's been reported as ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. That was your leap in logic. No, the big oil companies are not friendly to Obama and with his move today to push EXXON out of the picture and bring China in, I doubt they ever will be. This is not the first time he's handed things to China and I don't think it will be the last. Of course, with us owing them our first borns with all the debt we're in, I can see why we bow and scrape to hand over their best interests instead of ours.

That was the second time he got caught saying some inappropriate when he didn't know his mic was on. Happened about a year ago. But he gets away with it every time.

Seriously now, if a person has a mic hooked up to his lapel as often as this man does, do you really think he's saying anything 'off mic?' I think he knows exactly what he did and fully intended to do so, figuring whatever lame excuse he gave would be approved by his followers. Anyone else he really does not care about.

You're right about that. He is ruining the country, but he isn't stupid. He has an agenda

Too many don't read on and they don't care as long as he keeps repeating those magic words, "I'm giving you..." Fill in the blank. Until people get smart enough to realize that the more government 'gives' you, the deeper you crawl into a hole you can't get out of or eventually lose the will to climb out of, people like Obama will continue to reign.

As long as he hands out more rebates that no one earned, and does silly things like 'cash for clunkers' he will be lauded by many as the Messiah, when he is using these things to lower the esteem of the American people. The sad part is we keep falling for it.

You have every right to be biased in favor of our service men and women. What President Obama forgot to say when he said they volunteered was that because they volunteer we do not have to have a draft. That means that these wonderful people are not only saving us by fighting in foreign lands, but they save many young people from going into service. If everyone is so hot to give insurance to those without or with not enough, it should be to our service people. They have earned it when no one else has. I suggest we start by taking away the Golden Insurance our Congress and President have and giving THAT to our military. The president is making his moves to grab the votes of the gullible. Watch as he suddenly tries to get gas prices down, along with anything else he can possibly turn away from the people actually doing it and claim it was all him all the time. God bless your beautiful family for their service to our country. My family and my husband's served with my father-in-law being a lifer.