President Obama is taking a working vacation to Rio de Janeiro with his family. I question the timing of this trip based on current events and his low approval ratings. Here is his reasoning:
I’ll begin my trip by visiting Brazil to work with its new president, Dilma Rousseff, to strengthen the relationship between the hemisphere’s two largest democracies and economies. With around 200 million people, a growing middle class, and a per-capita income rising by almost 7% a year, Brazil imports more goods and services from the United States than from any other nation — mainly high-tech, manufactured goods from aircraft to chemicals to clean energy components.
Dilma Rousseff has an impressive background:
“She was 16 when Brazil fell prey to a military coup in 1964 and like many was soon drawn into the world of underground opposition.
“Introduced to Marxist politics by the man who became her first husband, Claudio Galeno, she helped build up one of the guerrilla organisations trying to overthrow the government – at one point spending three years in prison.
“After democracy was restored she had a daughter, Paula, now a 33-year-old lawyer, with her second husband Carlos Araújo, a revolutionary leader who had met Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. She trained as an economist she entered conventional left-wing politics and professional public service.
Is Mr. Obama going to discuss our loan to Petrobas last year?
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
Or maybe Mr. Obama is going to discuss Brazil’s deep water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico:
Petrobras, the Brazilian state-run energy giant, is to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico this month with deep water technology never before used in US waters.
The [Petrobas] Cascade and Chinook wells lie 180 miles south of Louisiana in water depths ranging from 8,200 to 8,850 feet (2,500 – 2,697 metres).
By comparison, the top of the BP well involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster of April 2010 was about 5,000ft (1,524 metres) below the surface.
When will our companies be allowed to drill in the Gulf of Mexico? The moratorium has been removed but now extraordinary measures and regulations are in place that are restricting new operations. Maybe Mr. Obama can convince Mrs. Rousseff to comply with the same regulations that have been imposed on our oil production.
David DeGerolamo
Can’t help but think this administration is dead set on creating an energy crisis in America. Although the moratorium has been lifted in the gulf, the permitting process has been unduly delayed and only one has been issued since. Obama is now calling for a complete and comprehensive review of our nuclear power plants. We get 20% of our energy from nuclear. How long before they determine these reactors must be dismantled for our own good? The administration is regulating coal out of the market, and we are dependent on foreign oil with rising prices. What does that leave us? Wind and sun? We must be good stewards of the Earth but we will have an energy crisis here if oil, coal and nuclear access is restricted before we have identified and implemented viable alternatives.
BP Oil Spill: A Fuller Picture
http://timpeck.blogspot.com/2010/06/bp-oil-spill-fuller-picture.html
I am thinking the same thing. I am beginning to think that he is behind all of the revolts in the middle east just so he can create a crisis here at home. I believe that if Saudi gets involved that $10 a gallon gas is possible and this would create the chaos I believe he is striving for.
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