Is It Just Me?

With oil now heading calmly, and slowly above $110 (up $1.45 in the last couple of hours), is it just me or does it seem strange to others that the president seems to be absent without leave on this subject? Three bullets:

• President's energy security speech called for alternate energy with goal to cut imported oil by one-third over the next decade; a decade from now!
• Saudi Arabia sent emissaries to Russia and China to short up support following unrest in the Mideast, not to its longest ally, the US
• President devotes more than half-a-day to a photo op town meeting/campaign stop in a wind turbine factory when oil moves to $109

Again, folks, oil is now solidly over $110 and yet that inconvenient fact seems to go pretty much unnoticed on MSNBC and CNBC.

By the way, the only takeaway for me from that town meeting:

By the way, President Obama thinks it is something to laugh about if folks are still driving vehicles that get 8 mpg.

“If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.” Let them eat cake.

Construction workers driving their personal pick-up trucks to work or farmers driving their pick-up trucks to their fields probably deserve a bit more respect than that. Something tells me the individual asking the question was not driving a Hummer. [Note: "anonymous" pointed out that my earlier example of Deere farm equipment and Caterpillar heavy construction equipment was a poor example; and suggested that folks driving Hummers deserve to be laughed at. Weren't Hummers made by Government Motors?]

I think that the federal government's response to Virginia's efforts to re-open drilling off-shore will show us where the administration is headed.