The Obama Moratorium: No offshore drilling while he’s in office
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
03/10/10The Obama administration’s six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become a new three-year ban, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters last Friday. Which means that no new oil and gas leases will be approved during President Obama’s term even though two –thirds of the American public supports such activity, according to a December 2009 Rasmussen poll.
Sixty percent also believe that gas and oil prices will drop if the government allows offshore drilling, opening up an estimate 14 billion barrels of oil and 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
On July 14, 2008 President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on Outer Continental Shelf leasing. On October 1, 2008, in a bipartisan agreement, Congress lifted another longstanding ban on new oil and gas leasing in the OCS.
Drilling was supposed to begin this July. But Salazar said he intends to discard the 2010-2015 lease plan developed by the Bush administration in favor of a new plan that won’t even go into effect until 2012.
“Secretary Salazar has finally confirmed what had long been feared – that the Obama Administration has no intention of opening up new areas for offshore drilling during his four-years in office,” said Rep. Doc Hastings, the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee.
So for the next three years and probably more, trillions of dollars in domestic energy assets will remain untouched while billions of dollars more are spent on foreign oil.
If Obama really cared about America, he would want to us to advance and stop funding our enemies. If any Obama supporters are reading this, please do not say that he is doing this because of the environment. Because if he was, he would not of loaned Brazil billions of dollars for them to drill. It is obvious that Obama wants to take us down. Maybe next election more voters will actually pay attention.
America needs Grassy Knoll 2.0…
That is exactly what we do not need!!! If anyone kills that traitor:
1. Biden becomes President; no improvement.
2. "Right Wing Extremists" get the blame regardless of the actual perpetrator(s).
We need to institute an effective elector qualification examination so that OneBigAssMistakeAmerica will not be repeated.
Go live with the Taliban, they use your tactics.
Stupid "Right Wing Extremists"
Well, how about Grassy Knoll 2.5 if that happens? 🙂
You sound like Abdulla!
Terrible, horrible, disgusting and un-American!
If you can't win the office, kill the person elected? Seriously?
But he did give $2 Billion dollars to Petrobas. This is the National Oil company of Brazil. Brazil is developing their offshore fields rapidly. But lets tell it like it is…..George Soros has invested heavily in Petrobas. This is more than likely why he gave to $2 Billion to Petrobas. Soros makes money and that is OK. Oil prices will go up here in America because of his decision. In conclusion…The Bastard.
Only 1046 days left before that bat-eared, long legged mac-daddy leaves office. Hopefully he and his minions of evil won't do irrepairable damage before he's kicked out.
We can stanch the damage this year ~ there are lots of midterm elections, & lots of good candidates. Don't let the big-ass mistake hijack our country!
If what happened in Massachusetts recently is any indication, the Democrats don't stand a chance.
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