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<\/a>He cited the following as fossil fuel industry achievements:<\/p>\n “And just this week,” added the President, “we learned that hundreds of thousands<\/em>\u00a0of fish — maybe millions — are turning up dead\u00a0throughout the Midwest in rivers they were living in for thousands of years.”<\/p>\n “Scientists are saying it’s due to the heat waves.”<\/p>\n Mr. Obama, recently criticized by his Republican Presidential rival Mitt Romney for being ‘anti-oil’, seemed eager to use the occasion to lavish public praise on the achievements of the industry:<\/p>\n “The bombs dropped over Japan 67 years ago may have obliterated two cities in the blink of an eye,” he said, “but\u00a0the\u00a0reach of the fossil fuel industry may even be greater than those 20 kilotons bombs. Whole ecosystems are collapsing now, due to the greenhouse gas emissions from oil, gas and coal technologies. \u00a0 Our needs for energy independence can’t simply ignore this, and we will continue to support the fossil fuel industry here at home — and around the world.”<\/p>\n Environmentalists, meanwhile, protested outside the ceremony. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Chris Hedges wrote an article equating the 1944 bombings and today’s fossil fuel industries, saying both were examples of “moral idiots” in charge of complex and dangerous scientific technologies.<\/p>\n Reached on his Presidential campaign bus, Republican hopeful Mitt Romney criticized the President for “cynically using the somber occasion of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries to score cheap political points with the oil industry. He may try to cozy up to them — but the American people know who the real friend of big oil is — and that’s me.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The above story is satire.<\/p>\n President Obama did not speak at a Chevron commemoration ceremony. \u00a0There was no Chevron commemoration ceremony.<\/p>\n There was, however, a fire at a Chevron oil refinery near San Fransisco — one of the nation’s largest refineries — which sent hundreds to the hospital and left thousands more with orders to remain in their homes with doors and windows shut. \u00a0 See SFGate<\/a> for more. \u00a0Or watch the video on HuffPo<\/a>.<\/p>\n And yes, the forests, oceans, Arctic ice, and world food supply are all reporting dramatic declines. And fish in the Midwest are turning up dead by the tens of thousands. \u00a0As cited:<\/p>\n And President Obama really did proclaim, just this year, an “all of the above” energy policy<\/a> (as did Mitt Romney<\/a>).<\/p>\n And protests are growing: One group of Texans is finalizing plans now for a human blockade of the Keystone XL Pipeline, due to begin construction by the end of August. Similar protests are occurring around the world.\u00a0See this video:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2012\/08\/313272_454840917880260_320047015_n2-150x150.jpg\")
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