Obama's "risky" gasoline strategy

Reuters is out this afternoon with an article discussing president Obama's "risky" gasoline strategy. Reuters starts by recognizing that the Obama strategy is not resonating with the American people. then comes the truly funny part of the article:

"'The most important thing we can do is have a long-term strategy to make sure we don't end up here again,' Heather Zichal, Obama's top energy adviser, said in an interview.

That strategy includes a push to reduce U.S. oil imports by a third over a decade by increasing domestic production, making cars and trucks more efficient, and fostering biofuels and natural gas."

What can anyone say to this other than "Ha, Ha, Ha!" Obama is pushing to increase domestic production? How can this actually get released in an article from Reuters? Doesn't anyone ever check facts anymore? Obama has stopped offshore drilling and totally killed it in the Gulf of Mexico. the estimate for 2011 is that these moves alone will cut domestic oil output by close to 10%. So now taking steps to cut output is a "push to increase" domestic production? How dumb does Reuters think its readers are?

Or how about Obama is "fostering" natural gas. anyone with a brain knows that this is not true. Indeed, the fear is that Obama's people will take steps to halt the dramatic growth in natural gas production.

I guess that there must be folks out there in the world who read articles like this one and accept them at face value. Too bad. No one should be that gullible.