Obama: the Good and the Bad

On the one hand, Barack Obama supports taxing oil industry profits ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN3144368520080609?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10179

On the other hand, Obama has vowed to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSWAT00959220080604

Nuclear weapons are bad -- no one should have them. But it's logical for a nation in a volatile part of the world that is sitting on one of the largest known reserves of petroleum and that asserts its independence from the United States to want to have them.

Now, here at home, when is Obama going to ask Americans to do the right thing and start driving less, significantly less?

And when is he going to ask Americans to do the right thing and ask them to tax themselves so that we can build sustainable communities with more mass transit?