Reply #21: It was not about the Gulf only, or he would not have spoken about an energy policy.

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This is the point. He made part of his speech about the need for a clean energy bill. He talked about pretty much everything that people are offering for an energy policy, except the need for capping carbon. It was a prime time address, and it could have been a place to make a short pitch on these issues. He explicitly chose not to, and on the contrary to insist there were other ways (which ones? Energy policies alone do not work).

Given the Senate situation, it is not a pitch to wonder why he did not use any of these words.