Obama's views on Islam affect energy policy

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 3/4/2011 3:50:00 AM

A bestselling author and critic of Islam says President Barack Obama seems to have such a "warm and benign positive view" of Islam that he doesn't think it's necessary for the U.S. to free itself from its dependency on oil from Islamic countries.
This week oil prices topped $100 per barrel when the New York Mercantile Exchange opened for trading. Prices rose as fighting escalated in Libya, which is a major oil exporter to Europe. Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pushed back against protestors in the eastern half of the country, battling for control of a key oil installation and an airstrip.

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Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute estimated that oil and gasoline supplies dropped last week in the U.S., with the American Automobile Association announcing that gasoline pump prices have risen to an average of $3.39 per gallon.

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Saying he means the pun intentionally, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch says Islamic countries literally have America over the barrel.

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"They have us caught in this because of oil," he states bluntly. "So that's why we should be opening up the Gulf for drilling and opening up the Alaskan oil reserves. These things are just commonsensical...."

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Spencer faults the responses of the past two administrations.

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"[George W.] Bush was tied in with the Saudis. I don't know what his motives were, but ultimately he did nothing to stop this foreign dependence," the Jihad Watch leader says. "And Barack Obama seems to have such a warm and benign positive view of Islam that he doesn't think that it's necessary to free us from this foreign dependence."

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Spencer says the United States is in a very bad position as a result of this energy policy.


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3/4/2011 2:48:54 PM