Pau Gasol had 14 points and 10 rebounds burberry handbags for the Pacific Division-leading Lakers (38-22), who have won three of four without Bryant. The NBA scoring leader is resting his bruised shin.
Los Angeles also played without Brown, who left Staples Center shortly before tipoff for undisclosed personal reasons. Assistant coach John Kuester ran the team.
Barnes played an enormous game in a reserve role while matching his highest-scoring performance in two seasons with the Lakers. He scored six consecutive points after Denver trimmed Los Angeles' lead to one point, hitting a 3-pointer and adding a burberry sunglasses clutch jumper with 1:29 to play.
Andre Miller scored 20 points and Al Harrington added 18 for the Nuggets, who had won five of seven. Arron Afflalo also had 18 for Denver, which is hanging on to a playoff spot.
Los Angeles led for all but the opening minutes, going up 87-75 with 9:25 left. Denver trimmed the lead to one point with a 15-4 run capped by Harrington's 3-pointer with 3:38 left, but Barnes hit a clutch 3-pointer and added a free throw and a jumper before throwing oakley sunglasses a phenomenal half-court alley-oop to Bynum in the final minute.
Despite committing 23 turnovers, the Lakers took three of four from Denver to win the season series after the Nuggets took it in each of the past two years. With six games left, Los Angeles is 1½ games ahead of the Clippers for the division lead and the No. 3 playoff seed.
Kuester filled in when Brown left Staples Center after his regular media briefing about 75 minutes before game time. Bryant also moved up next to the assistant coaches, yelling out advice and strategy.
Bryant is no longer wearing Ed Hardy sunglasses new arrivals discount sale CQEWQ145 a protective boot. The fifth-leading scorer in NBA history is walking without pain, but must run and jump without pain before he'll return.
Bryant has built a career on playing through any amount of pain, but with the Lakers comfortably in the playoff picture, he apparently feels he can take a brief rest from the compacted regular season. Brown wouldn't speculate on how long Bryant will sit, saying they'll re-evaluate his injury before Sunday's game against the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks.
Bryant hadn't missed a game all season before his current week off, and he has missed just 99 games in his 16 NBA seasons. He is closing in on his third scoring title with 28.1 points per game, slightly ahead of Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, who won the last two scoring crowns.
The Lakers started well without Bryant, picking up from their emphatic road win over San Antonio by jumping to a 14-point lead in the first quarter. Barnes Burberry sneaker shoes for women blue beige outlet classic scored 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting in the first half, including a rainbow jumper at the buzzer.
Denver kept it close with relentless attention to Bynum, who had 30 rebounds against the Spurs.
NOTES: The Lakers have missed the playoffs just five times in their 64 years of existence, just twice in 33 years under owner Jerry Buss. …Wilson Chandler missed his seventh straight game for Denver with a strained left hip, while Rudy Fernandez is still sidelined with a strained lower back. … Kuester also coached the Lakers in February while Brown served a one-game suspension. Kuester was the Detroit Pistons' head coach for the past two seasons before burberry bags getting fired last June. … Barnes got a technical foul with 2:24 left for arguing a call, but Afflalo missed a free throw that would have cut the Lakers' lead to three points with the ball.
2012年4月13日星期五
2012年2月26日星期日
The men lay down their car keys
Hairdrying woman smell a smell of hair, happy and indifferent shrug, take off the big red lace nightgown, got into burberry bags the set of pure white quilt blanket, readily grabbed the phone of the right pillow.
The habit of cleaning up his mobile phone spam. "
Call records, glanced again, delete all.
Inbox: weather, health promotion, friends blessing, and have kept it!
Drafts: "have you, I am the happiest man in the world!" Lucky woman, during the day, he returned to her hair, appears to be rehearsed; The second is the womans home address, identity card number, then save it; wedding last month, according to a pity that the heroine is not you.
"Unfortunately, the heroine is not you" What does this mean Woman bad mood, and suddenly dropped to the freezing point 0C.
Love of four years last month, marriage registration, no car no house no diamond ring, a typical bare marriage tide, just believe they have a pure and beautiful love, the irony! How ironic sentence! Is it also a mockery of marriage
Her nose is an acid, some wet corner of the eye, like the red lace dress, her bold and assertive sexy and without losing the sense of propriety, how can we allow a little bit less of impurities and partial suspect
"Look at this draft, and to explain!" Woman fling the phone, just fell on the bed, the man in front of the computer picked up the phone, looked at the.
"Is a not sent SMS!"
The mans tone to the woman to prove that nothing can explain.
The curiosity of a woman, a womans intuition, sacred love, the woman can not be insult faith, continue to ask: "Prepare To whom"
"I did not and to whom!" Man is like a sincere smile, but in a womans eyes filled with hypocrisy.
Hands the woman pushed the man leaned over the face, "give me a thorough and clear explanation, you know I am not a stingy woman." The woman did not change the volume, but put away the the Jisi gentle and just smell the hair.
Yao Di divorce, children and sick, I wanted to comfort her but then I so say very good, so no hair. "The man is so frank and reckless confessed.
The woman a letter do not want to hum out, carried away, close your eyes, let the tears flow out of the wound, the force of biting.
The heroine is not you! "You" Yao Di, Yao Di is his exgirlfriend, a woman remembers, he had mentioned her secondary school when his girlfriend, when they did not know, even no who held hands, but That is love.
Four years, his gentle and considerate, humorous gentleman, and progressive, hes all OK, such as drifting clouds.
Gentle, will give a woman sent to bless you
His sense of humor when think of another womans face
He work hard is it to another woman
His OK Is it a lie My wishful thinking
The womans thinking the speed of light running, the body is lying there so quiet.
If you can, she did not want to think about.
But her eyes with a small eyelash www.fashiontoy.com silk would not tolerate.
She tried to recall the day he is not around, in fact, only nine to five working day for several hours. She desperately statistics there is no additional expenses, that he does not smoke do not drink, wage cards had been sleeping in her bag.
But her heart is uncomfortable.
"Do not be cranky, I really just want to comfort her, also half a year contact so once, my dear!" The man is not prepared to take advantage of a woman, kissed her cheek.
Woman like a needlelike turned his head, stared at him: "so once I caught it, then you marry her, accompany her to bed is not more to comfort her"
I do not know the mans face.
Woman back to his head, feeling a bit ruthless in their own words, but income is not being paid.
"Did not matter then, my dear, believe me, I just love a" man around, lying on the bed.
Women nonmechanically turned his face away, who I am! I was a few years ago that ignorant little girl I believe that I was an idiot.
Woman, without a word, men also bypass the side, on the bed, the woman pushed the man outstretched arm, men ton of bricks, war four or five of the second leg, a woman shouted: "Do not touch me!"
The men know, perhaps silence better than to explain!
Wait for the dawn, do not leave now, because he was stopping, but always give yourself an account of Read this information, so in the past Selfdeception, it was not me!
Woman is still up early to buy breakfast, did not speak, a man a good wash, as usual, eat breakfast, go out with him, then to a direction, but men and her kiss goodbye, she reluctantly responded with a smile, and feel so awkward!
The man disappeared the moment of bend, she stopped in her tracks, looking upward, look to the sky, blue sky, azure blue, quick as a newly washed off, the white clouds, the mass of a group, like the newly Military. She suddenly a thought flashed, and the end of the world nice! Sneer, took out a cell phone, asked for sick leave, made a decision, like a throw away extremely heavy burden, strides to return home.
Left a note: "my dear, today dinner you do it! Me out to think about our future, I assure you, two or three days I will be back." And then installed two underwear for body movement loaded, still under the mobile phone, leaving the package towards the door, the room looked carefully again, lock the door the moment, bathroom faucet dripping it into the bathroom and tighten faucet.
In Shanghai in April, she was aimlessly walking in the air, vehicle or fast or slow passing from her own footsteps slow, or they open faster He is lagging behind. Windy, it will rain April day, like a womans face, the fickle rain or woman of their own laughter, washing away her thoughts, wet her shell, or say to give her a natural the enjoyment of it!
Even divorce, she knew that a person can also be very exciting, but he would not agree, because he is so obedient.
The woman found the front of the hotel, stopped, flip the eye, check the ID card is in the bag, of course!
Point of the fruit, called lunch, open room, a long time, there is no consumption in the hotel, or a star, she may not want to waste, the computer is the apple, she opened the literary network, chose a "marriage is love grave. "
Sensibility perhaps make a woman bare marriage, and rational to let her run off, and perhaps emotional, rational cross point to let her in tears because of a novella, decided to go home!
This little paragraph in the story, about eight a womans life:
The first one is rich, but her life is empty, the husband has almost become a puppet, her only companionship with pets;
The second is the poverty, all day to worry about the basic necessities of life, her husband was ill in bed, abandons burberry sunglasses her;
The third is the petty bourgeoisie, sometimes happy and sometimes lost, because her husbands temper, good times and bad, so she was tired;
The fourth one is weak, her husband propensity to violence, but she did not leave because her 2yearold son needed her.
The fifth is the strength of her regardless of the occasion, do not care about other people behind the pointing can be hard on her husband.
The sixth is skittish, her husband repeatedly inclusive, her remorse, and ultimately her husband left him;
The seventh is the singles, not lack of men, rose to prove that every day of her Valentines Day;
The eighth is a blind girl, but she knew how to be content, intelligent and considerate husband, and occasionally coming home late, again and again apologize.
The woman did not fastforward a word to read it.
Their lives off, their bodies strong, to please her, she told him to discipline a degree, their patterns of life, their interests, congenial, a woman suddenly felt, and that eight women, she is so happy, but her pure love
Love is selfish, that is the flaw of love, the family is complete, a family life for decades, can be maintained to the last is not a pure love, is love after metamorphosis after the baptism of daily tasks, trivial into the family.
His men perhaps I really have a few acres of land to the woman, but she is his task of the whole sky, fertilization, watering, pruning is she fishes! Why should they care about that small acres of land
Woman back room, playing home, put things back in place, a man opened the door the moment, she quickly put the small piece of paper balled trash screwed up his little eyes, said: "My dear, I forgot to buy dishes! "
The men lay down their car burberry sunglasses outlet keys, a woman forced to crowd in the arms, their voices are choked; "I take a nap when a dream, and dream of you go, how do I can not find you."
The tears of a womans sudden slip or a letter did not hum, but she know that he is so in love with this man, this man cares about her!
The habit of cleaning up his mobile phone spam. "
Call records, glanced again, delete all.
Inbox: weather, health promotion, friends blessing, and have kept it!
Drafts: "have you, I am the happiest man in the world!" Lucky woman, during the day, he returned to her hair, appears to be rehearsed; The second is the womans home address, identity card number, then save it; wedding last month, according to a pity that the heroine is not you.
"Unfortunately, the heroine is not you" What does this mean Woman bad mood, and suddenly dropped to the freezing point 0C.
Love of four years last month, marriage registration, no car no house no diamond ring, a typical bare marriage tide, just believe they have a pure and beautiful love, the irony! How ironic sentence! Is it also a mockery of marriage
Her nose is an acid, some wet corner of the eye, like the red lace dress, her bold and assertive sexy and without losing the sense of propriety, how can we allow a little bit less of impurities and partial suspect
"Look at this draft, and to explain!" Woman fling the phone, just fell on the bed, the man in front of the computer picked up the phone, looked at the.
"Is a not sent SMS!"
The mans tone to the woman to prove that nothing can explain.
The curiosity of a woman, a womans intuition, sacred love, the woman can not be insult faith, continue to ask: "Prepare To whom"
"I did not and to whom!" Man is like a sincere smile, but in a womans eyes filled with hypocrisy.
Hands the woman pushed the man leaned over the face, "give me a thorough and clear explanation, you know I am not a stingy woman." The woman did not change the volume, but put away the the Jisi gentle and just smell the hair.
Yao Di divorce, children and sick, I wanted to comfort her but then I so say very good, so no hair. "The man is so frank and reckless confessed.
The woman a letter do not want to hum out, carried away, close your eyes, let the tears flow out of the wound, the force of biting.
The heroine is not you! "You" Yao Di, Yao Di is his exgirlfriend, a woman remembers, he had mentioned her secondary school when his girlfriend, when they did not know, even no who held hands, but That is love.
Four years, his gentle and considerate, humorous gentleman, and progressive, hes all OK, such as drifting clouds.
Gentle, will give a woman sent to bless you
His sense of humor when think of another womans face
He work hard is it to another woman
His OK Is it a lie My wishful thinking
The womans thinking the speed of light running, the body is lying there so quiet.
If you can, she did not want to think about.
But her eyes with a small eyelash www.fashiontoy.com silk would not tolerate.
She tried to recall the day he is not around, in fact, only nine to five working day for several hours. She desperately statistics there is no additional expenses, that he does not smoke do not drink, wage cards had been sleeping in her bag.
But her heart is uncomfortable.
"Do not be cranky, I really just want to comfort her, also half a year contact so once, my dear!" The man is not prepared to take advantage of a woman, kissed her cheek.
Woman like a needlelike turned his head, stared at him: "so once I caught it, then you marry her, accompany her to bed is not more to comfort her"
I do not know the mans face.
Woman back to his head, feeling a bit ruthless in their own words, but income is not being paid.
"Did not matter then, my dear, believe me, I just love a" man around, lying on the bed.
Women nonmechanically turned his face away, who I am! I was a few years ago that ignorant little girl I believe that I was an idiot.
Woman, without a word, men also bypass the side, on the bed, the woman pushed the man outstretched arm, men ton of bricks, war four or five of the second leg, a woman shouted: "Do not touch me!"
The men know, perhaps silence better than to explain!
Wait for the dawn, do not leave now, because he was stopping, but always give yourself an account of Read this information, so in the past Selfdeception, it was not me!
Woman is still up early to buy breakfast, did not speak, a man a good wash, as usual, eat breakfast, go out with him, then to a direction, but men and her kiss goodbye, she reluctantly responded with a smile, and feel so awkward!
The man disappeared the moment of bend, she stopped in her tracks, looking upward, look to the sky, blue sky, azure blue, quick as a newly washed off, the white clouds, the mass of a group, like the newly Military. She suddenly a thought flashed, and the end of the world nice! Sneer, took out a cell phone, asked for sick leave, made a decision, like a throw away extremely heavy burden, strides to return home.
Left a note: "my dear, today dinner you do it! Me out to think about our future, I assure you, two or three days I will be back." And then installed two underwear for body movement loaded, still under the mobile phone, leaving the package towards the door, the room looked carefully again, lock the door the moment, bathroom faucet dripping it into the bathroom and tighten faucet.
In Shanghai in April, she was aimlessly walking in the air, vehicle or fast or slow passing from her own footsteps slow, or they open faster He is lagging behind. Windy, it will rain April day, like a womans face, the fickle rain or woman of their own laughter, washing away her thoughts, wet her shell, or say to give her a natural the enjoyment of it!
Even divorce, she knew that a person can also be very exciting, but he would not agree, because he is so obedient.
The woman found the front of the hotel, stopped, flip the eye, check the ID card is in the bag, of course!
Point of the fruit, called lunch, open room, a long time, there is no consumption in the hotel, or a star, she may not want to waste, the computer is the apple, she opened the literary network, chose a "marriage is love grave. "
Sensibility perhaps make a woman bare marriage, and rational to let her run off, and perhaps emotional, rational cross point to let her in tears because of a novella, decided to go home!
This little paragraph in the story, about eight a womans life:
The first one is rich, but her life is empty, the husband has almost become a puppet, her only companionship with pets;
The second is the poverty, all day to worry about the basic necessities of life, her husband was ill in bed, abandons burberry sunglasses her;
The third is the petty bourgeoisie, sometimes happy and sometimes lost, because her husbands temper, good times and bad, so she was tired;
The fourth one is weak, her husband propensity to violence, but she did not leave because her 2yearold son needed her.
The fifth is the strength of her regardless of the occasion, do not care about other people behind the pointing can be hard on her husband.
The sixth is skittish, her husband repeatedly inclusive, her remorse, and ultimately her husband left him;
The seventh is the singles, not lack of men, rose to prove that every day of her Valentines Day;
The eighth is a blind girl, but she knew how to be content, intelligent and considerate husband, and occasionally coming home late, again and again apologize.
The woman did not fastforward a word to read it.
Their lives off, their bodies strong, to please her, she told him to discipline a degree, their patterns of life, their interests, congenial, a woman suddenly felt, and that eight women, she is so happy, but her pure love
Love is selfish, that is the flaw of love, the family is complete, a family life for decades, can be maintained to the last is not a pure love, is love after metamorphosis after the baptism of daily tasks, trivial into the family.
His men perhaps I really have a few acres of land to the woman, but she is his task of the whole sky, fertilization, watering, pruning is she fishes! Why should they care about that small acres of land
Woman back room, playing home, put things back in place, a man opened the door the moment, she quickly put the small piece of paper balled trash screwed up his little eyes, said: "My dear, I forgot to buy dishes! "
The men lay down their car burberry sunglasses outlet keys, a woman forced to crowd in the arms, their voices are choked; "I take a nap when a dream, and dream of you go, how do I can not find you."
The tears of a womans sudden slip or a letter did not hum, but she know that he is so in love with this man, this man cares about her!
2012年2月23日星期四
Obama chose the University of Miami for his speech
Gas prices have risen 29 cents per gallon since December, with regular-grade gas now averaging $3.64 a gallon in the Washington region at a time of year when consumers usually enjoy a respite from price hikes.
The high cost at the pump could turn into an election-year mess for the president, whose approval ratings have surged recently as the economy improved. Republicans, sensing an opportunity, have blamed Obama for not giving oil companies greater freedom to drill for new U.S. supplies that might ease prices.
The political dynamics are muddied by the Iran factor. In their debate Wednesday, the leading GOP presidential candidates vowed to prevent Iran from acquiring burberry bags a nuclear weapon. Yet the rise in oil prices recently has been augmented by the tightening of U.S. and European sanctions on Iran and its oil exports.
Some Democrats are also urging Obama, who has pressured other nations to curtail purchases of Iranian oil, to protect consumers by releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as he did during the Libyan conflict last summer. Most presidents are reluctant to tap the reserve without a dire emergency, and many experts believed the release last year had a fleeting impact on gas prices.
The recent climb in pump prices resembles the 2008 oil spike, when, as a presidential candidate, Obama used the increase to rally support for a renewable-energy agenda. Since then, oil prices have collapsed with the economy and then soared again with the recovery. U.S. oil and gas production has begun increasing substantially for the first time in more than two decades. But the United States still imports about half of its petroleum needs.
In an appearance Thursday at the University of Miami, where he toured an engineering program for energy efficiency, Obama told a crowd of hundreds of students that his GOP rivals who are pledging to slash prices are “rooting for bad news” to win political points.
“Since it’s an election year, they’re already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas. I’ll save you the suspense: Step one is drill, step two is drill, and step three is keep drilling,” Obama said. “Well, the American people aren’t stupid. You know that’s not a plan. . . . It’s a strategy to get politicians through an election. You know there are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know we can’t just drill our to lower prices.”
Obama argued that his “all of the above” energy policy — promoting increased domestic production, improved fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and greater investment in clean energy innovation — is the smartest way to insulate the United States from the vagaries of the global www.fashiontoy.com oil market.
“There is no silver bullet. There never has been,” Obama said. “It’s the easiest thing in the world to make phony election-year promises about lower gas prices.”
Many oil experts say Obama has altered his tone since 2008. “There has been an evolution in his energy thinking,” said Frank A. Verrastro, director of the energy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “He can still pick up the transformative, clean, green theme, but there is a recognition that oil and gas has been a big economic driver.”
Obama’s position reflects the White House’s belief that gasoline prices are subject to cyclical spikes due to forces largely outside its control, including the rise in Chinese and Indian oil demand.
That view hasn’t stopped Obama’s rivals from trying to exploit the matter on the campaign trail. This week, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum blamed Obama’s “radical environmental policies” for the higher prices, suggesting Obama purposely aims to keep prices high to stave off global warming by discouraging people from driving. Newt Gingrich said the president “has been outrageously anti-American-energy.”
And the Republican National Committee released a Web video Thursday that features a clip of Obama’s impromptu singing of “Sweet Home Chicago” during a White House blues concert behind a chart showing gas prices rising from $1.85 per gallon when he took office in 2009 to $3.59 this month. The ad is titled “Obama’s Got America Singing the Blues.”
Domestic oil and gas companies also are unhappy. Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said Wednesday that Obama’s corporate tax reform plan, which proposes cuts in tax breaks for oil and natural gas companies, would dampen domestic production.
Gerard cited the Obama administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, which would have carried oil from Canada to refineries in Texas, as evidence that burberry sunglasses the White House is more interested in placating environmentalists.
“When the president talks about ‘all of the above’ to describe his policy, unfortunately he leaves out the oil and natural gas industry,” Gerard said. “If you look at the policies he’s advanced for oil and natural gas, everything has been done to discourage domestic production.”
But energy experts say many Republican proposals, such as building the Keystone pipeline, would have little near-term impact on gasoline prices. Companies producing in Canada’s oil sands area and pipeline companies say that there is enough spare pipeline capacity to last until 2016, or longer.
The Obama administration notes that domestic production has increased every year the president has been in office. During his State of the Union speech last month, Obama said American oil production “is the highest that it’s been in eight years.”
On Thursday, he reiterated calls for new investments in clean energy innovation.
Administration officials said Obama plans to highlight other accomplishments Friday, including an historic fuel efficiency standards agreement reached last summer with the auto industry that would require cars to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, which the administration estimates will save 12 billion barrels of oil.
Obama chose the University of Miami for his speech because it offers an industrial energy-efficiency program for engineers. He also planned to hold four fundraisers in Miami and Orlando after his appearance.
Jay Hakes, who worked on energy policy in the Carter and Clinton administrations, has studied how past administrations have responded to gas price hikes. While oil output has boosted by policies put in place before Obama took office, Hakes said, “I do not know how www.buymyfavorite.com you could make the point that he somehow restrained production when both onshore and offshore [output] have a lot of momentum behind them.”
The high cost at the pump could turn into an election-year mess for the president, whose approval ratings have surged recently as the economy improved. Republicans, sensing an opportunity, have blamed Obama for not giving oil companies greater freedom to drill for new U.S. supplies that might ease prices.
The political dynamics are muddied by the Iran factor. In their debate Wednesday, the leading GOP presidential candidates vowed to prevent Iran from acquiring burberry bags a nuclear weapon. Yet the rise in oil prices recently has been augmented by the tightening of U.S. and European sanctions on Iran and its oil exports.
Some Democrats are also urging Obama, who has pressured other nations to curtail purchases of Iranian oil, to protect consumers by releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as he did during the Libyan conflict last summer. Most presidents are reluctant to tap the reserve without a dire emergency, and many experts believed the release last year had a fleeting impact on gas prices.
The recent climb in pump prices resembles the 2008 oil spike, when, as a presidential candidate, Obama used the increase to rally support for a renewable-energy agenda. Since then, oil prices have collapsed with the economy and then soared again with the recovery. U.S. oil and gas production has begun increasing substantially for the first time in more than two decades. But the United States still imports about half of its petroleum needs.
In an appearance Thursday at the University of Miami, where he toured an engineering program for energy efficiency, Obama told a crowd of hundreds of students that his GOP rivals who are pledging to slash prices are “rooting for bad news” to win political points.
“Since it’s an election year, they’re already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas. I’ll save you the suspense: Step one is drill, step two is drill, and step three is keep drilling,” Obama said. “Well, the American people aren’t stupid. You know that’s not a plan. . . . It’s a strategy to get politicians through an election. You know there are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know we can’t just drill our to lower prices.”
Obama argued that his “all of the above” energy policy — promoting increased domestic production, improved fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and greater investment in clean energy innovation — is the smartest way to insulate the United States from the vagaries of the global www.fashiontoy.com oil market.
“There is no silver bullet. There never has been,” Obama said. “It’s the easiest thing in the world to make phony election-year promises about lower gas prices.”
Many oil experts say Obama has altered his tone since 2008. “There has been an evolution in his energy thinking,” said Frank A. Verrastro, director of the energy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “He can still pick up the transformative, clean, green theme, but there is a recognition that oil and gas has been a big economic driver.”
Obama’s position reflects the White House’s belief that gasoline prices are subject to cyclical spikes due to forces largely outside its control, including the rise in Chinese and Indian oil demand.
That view hasn’t stopped Obama’s rivals from trying to exploit the matter on the campaign trail. This week, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum blamed Obama’s “radical environmental policies” for the higher prices, suggesting Obama purposely aims to keep prices high to stave off global warming by discouraging people from driving. Newt Gingrich said the president “has been outrageously anti-American-energy.”
And the Republican National Committee released a Web video Thursday that features a clip of Obama’s impromptu singing of “Sweet Home Chicago” during a White House blues concert behind a chart showing gas prices rising from $1.85 per gallon when he took office in 2009 to $3.59 this month. The ad is titled “Obama’s Got America Singing the Blues.”
Domestic oil and gas companies also are unhappy. Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said Wednesday that Obama’s corporate tax reform plan, which proposes cuts in tax breaks for oil and natural gas companies, would dampen domestic production.
Gerard cited the Obama administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, which would have carried oil from Canada to refineries in Texas, as evidence that burberry sunglasses the White House is more interested in placating environmentalists.
“When the president talks about ‘all of the above’ to describe his policy, unfortunately he leaves out the oil and natural gas industry,” Gerard said. “If you look at the policies he’s advanced for oil and natural gas, everything has been done to discourage domestic production.”
But energy experts say many Republican proposals, such as building the Keystone pipeline, would have little near-term impact on gasoline prices. Companies producing in Canada’s oil sands area and pipeline companies say that there is enough spare pipeline capacity to last until 2016, or longer.
The Obama administration notes that domestic production has increased every year the president has been in office. During his State of the Union speech last month, Obama said American oil production “is the highest that it’s been in eight years.”
On Thursday, he reiterated calls for new investments in clean energy innovation.
Administration officials said Obama plans to highlight other accomplishments Friday, including an historic fuel efficiency standards agreement reached last summer with the auto industry that would require cars to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, which the administration estimates will save 12 billion barrels of oil.
Obama chose the University of Miami for his speech because it offers an industrial energy-efficiency program for engineers. He also planned to hold four fundraisers in Miami and Orlando after his appearance.
Jay Hakes, who worked on energy policy in the Carter and Clinton administrations, has studied how past administrations have responded to gas price hikes. While oil output has boosted by policies put in place before Obama took office, Hakes said, “I do not know how www.buymyfavorite.com you could make the point that he somehow restrained production when both onshore and offshore [output] have a lot of momentum behind them.”
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