As he said this week.

And, absent petroleum, what is the fuel that can immediately step in and provide an uninterrupted continuation of our national electrical and transportation needs?

That’s correct: NOTHING.

Obama doesn’t want a transition.

He simply wants a halt from one energy paradigm to another. At the snap of his fingers.

That’s just not going to occur. And he’s unwilling to acknowledge the reality of our need for petroleum whilst we ATTEMPT to identify and create PRACTICAL replacement technologies

There is NOTHING that can replace the energy provided by petroleum sources not only in this nation, but across the planet.

Obama said that because the United States accounts for 20 percent of the world’s consumption of oil but has only 2 percent of its petroleum reserves, “we’re not going to be able to just drill our way out of the problem of high gas prices. Anybody who tells you otherwise either doesn’t know what they’re talking about or they aren’t telling you the truth.”

“Here is the truth. If we are going to control our energy future, then we’ve got to have an all-of-the-above strategy,” he said in his speech. “We’ve got to develop every source of American energy—not just oil and gas, but wind power and solar power, nuclear power, biofuels.”

Everything, however, requires start-up, a ramp-up. In the meantime, there is NO immediate replacement for oil. Our daft president doesn’t seem to grok that concept.

Tell me, Liberals and Leftists and Demorats and members of the Religious Left:

Just what can step in, now, immediately, to take the place of oil?

And that can continue to power your iPods and iPads and Macs and PowerBooks and fulfill your abilities to Tweet and Facebook and continue on the social sites you desperately need to source every hour, every minute, every second?

Answer me.

BZ