President Obama has a huge gas problem

[decocker 7,198]

posted primarily for title.

The Obama administration has been tough on coal, directing the Environmental Protection Agency to severely limit the amount of CO2 that power plants are allowed to emit. But at the same time, the administration has embraced natural gas. Environmentalists say that embrace has created a chasm between Obama’s rhetoric and his climate-fighting actions.

That’s because a growing body of scientific evidence that shows gas development produces significant amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.

At the People’s Climate March on Sept. 21, activists say they’ll be pressuring the president to address his support of oil and gas. If he doesn’t, they say, he risks squandering his entire environmental record.

“He’s hoping that by killing coal and replacing it with natural gas, he’s coming out a winner, but the science is increasingly saying that’s not going to be the case,” said Anthony Ingraffea, an engineering professor at Cornell and a prominent hydraulic fracturing critic. “At best, his strategy means we’ll break even, but over decades. The Climate March is saying we don’t have decades.”

For many environmentalists, there seem to be two Obamas:

There’s the one who has pushed hard to bring a dialogue about climate change to the forefront of U.S. politics in a way no president before him has.

"The question is not whether we need to act [on climate change],” Obama said in a speech in June. “The question is whether we have the will to act before it's too late.”

The other Obama has come out hard for natural gas development.

"If extracted safely, it's the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change,” he said at his most recent State of the Union Address.

The problem, environmentalists and scientists say, is that natural gas isn’t a green option in the same way renewable energy is.

“It’s not a bridge. It’s a treadmill,” said Sandra Steingraber, an environmental science professor at Ithaca College and an anti-fracking activist. “It remains to be seen if gas is slightly better or slightly worse than coal, but either way, it’s not better enough. We’re still going off a climate cliff.”

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I knew it. Obama is a farter.

[decocker 7,198]

that's why michelle is always giving him stank eye.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Perhaps that why no decisions can be made - meetings keep getting interrupted by having to evacuate the Oval Office.

[decocker 7,198]

maybe that's why he's spends so much time on the golf course, lots of open air.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

maybe that's why he's spends so much time on the golf course, lots of open air.

He can let a few slip out when he swings.

[decocker 7,198]

He can let a few slip out when he swings.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

I recommend Beano.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The president needs to lay off the broccoli

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Pity he has not only a gas problem, but HUGE gas problem. He has published a solution for his followers:

[Curmudgeon 227]

What precisely has Obama done that merits the description 'followers' when supporters is more accurate?

[LibCampFireClub 635]

One of his 'supporters' described it to me like this: A supporter doesn't always follow or participate, although they provide a useful service in holding things up that have trouble staying in place like they used to. Alternatively, the 'follower' may not have the means of the supporter to clothe and feed themselves, but because of the supporter's generosity, the followers receive the necessities in life that enable them to continue following, while the more powerful supporters watch from afar.

[Curmudgeon 227]

One of his 'supporters' described it to me like this: A supporter doesn't always follow or participate, although they provide a useful service in holding things up that have trouble staying in place like they used to. Alternatively, the 'follower' may not have the means of the supporter to clothe and feed themselves, but because of the supporter's generosity, the followers receive the necessities in life that enable them to continue following, while the more powerful supporters watch from afar.

I don't know anyone that fits your description of supporter or follower, nothing about what you have written makes any sense. It probably sounds good in your head but it doesn't have any external meaning.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I don't know anyone that fits your description of supporter or follower, nothing about what you have written makes any sense. It probably sounds good in your head but it doesn't have any external meaning.

You figured ExExpat out. What took you so long?

[Dan and Judy 614]

You need supporters to keep the nuts in line.