{"id":2109,"date":"2010-05-28T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2010-05-28T09:59:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T14:59:02","slug":"president-obama-connecting-the-bp-oil-disaster-with-the-need-for-climate-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2010\/05\/28\/president-obama-connecting-the-bp-oil-disaster-with-the-need-for-climate-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama &#8211; Connecting the BP oil disaster with the need for climate legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <em>Grist<\/em>, there are signs that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-26-obamas-finally-connecting-the-gulf-spill-and-clean-energy.-champ\/\">President Obama is ready to connect the oil spill to the need for comprehensive climate and clean energy bill<\/a>. At a fundraiser in San Francisco the President said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe reason that folks are now having to go down a mile deep into the ocean, and then another mile drilling into the ground below, that is because the easy oil fields and oil wells are gone, or they&#8217;re starting to diminish. That tells us that we&#8217;ve got to have a long-term energy strategy in this country. And we&#8217;ve got to start cultivating solar and wind and biodiesel. And we&#8217;ve got to increase energy efficiency across our economy in our buildings and our automobiles.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the <em>Financial Times<\/em>, President Obama has \u201cfinally come out and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/energy-source\/2010\/05\/27\/obamas-energy-tangle\/\">linked the Deepwater Horizon accident and the continuing oil leak to the \u2018dangers of fossil fuels\u2019<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Mr Obama said<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c<\/em>the increased risks, the increased costs\u201d of deepwater drilling \u201cgives you a sense of where we\u2019re going\u2026We\u2019re not going to be able to sustain this kind of fossil fuel use.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>E2<\/em> also has President Obama relating the oil spill to the need for clean energy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/100239-obama-oil-spill-is-a-wake-up-call-for-climate-bill\">\u2019This disaster should serve as a wake-up call<\/a> that it is time to move forward on this legislation,\u2019 Obama said, citing a need to develop \u2018clean\u2019 energy sources.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Grist, there are signs that President Obama is ready to connect the oil spill to the need for comprehensive climate and clean energy bill. 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