In Your Time

President Obama tells us there is no "silver bullet” or “quick fix”, but he's been in office for 3 years.

“You shouldn’t have to accept any more excuses as to why it can’t be done”.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

One quick fix would be for the EPA to allow one single blend of gasoline instead of the reformulated gasoline blends during April through September.

Not only does the fuel costs more to produce, but the reformulated fuel sold during the summer months doesn’t provide purchasers with the same mileage as winter blends. Therefore, more fuel has to be purchased to drive the same miles.

The U.S. is the only country in the world that places a majority of its territorial waters off-limits to oil and gas exploration, the U.S. should at the very least be drilling in the areas where access is permitted.

Obama is also blocking access to 19 billion barrels of oil in the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, another 10 billion barrels estimated in the Chukchi Sea off the Alaskan coast, and another 10 billion barrels of oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.

Instead, the Obama administration has supported oil drilling off the shore of Brazil and we’re aiding Mexico in offshore drilling.

Obama could have the the Departments of Interior and Energy end the bureaucratic delays on drilling permits, delays that have doubled under Obama, which ultimately adds to the price of gas at the pump.

Oil and gas royalties are the federal government’s #2 source of revenue, after the income tax. Offshore slowdowns hurt not only industry and jobs, but government revenue.