From the CEOs and business leaders on the COMPAS business panel, President Obama earns a bare passing grade for his encouragement of natural gas production and a failing grade for insufficiently cutting reliance on overseas oil (table 2a). His role in cancelling the Keystone pipeline is perceived as a temporary expedient til the next election (table 2b).

By a 2:1 ratio, panelists do not give the President credit to a reduced reliance on foreign energy sources (table 2c). These are the key findings from this past week's Internet survey of CEOs and business leaders on the COMPAS panel. The weekly business survey is undertaken for Canadian Business magazine.

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