Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/17/2010 3:28:21 PM PDT by raptor22
The Obama administration used the names of drilling experts to justify a ban on deep water drilling - despite the fact that 8 of these experts who were listed in the Interior Department report used as a basis for the moratorium say that their names had been used to justify a political decision:
When President Obama last month announced his six-month deepwater moratorium, he pointed to an Interior Department report of new "safety" recommendations. That report prominently noted that the recommendations it contained-including the six-month drilling ban-had been "peer-reviewed" by "experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering." It also boasted that Interior "consulted with a wide range" of other experts. The clear implication was that the nation's drilling brain trust agreed a moratorium was necessary. As these columns reported last week, the opposite is true. In a scathing document, eight of the "experts" the Administration listed in its report said their names had been "used" to "justify" a "political decision." The draft they reviewed had not included a six-month drilling moratorium. The Administration added that provision only after it had secured sign-off. In their document, the eight forcefully rejected a moratorium, which they argued could prove more economically devastating than the oil spill itself and "counterproductive" to "safety."
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He has absolutely no problem at all with gas at 4-5 dollars per gallon, as long as he can blame BP and the Republicans and the socialist media is complicit in spreading his propaganda.
All hell is going to break loose.
The typical American citizen, who derives their world view from Oprah and Judge Judy could give a crap about the truth. They’re more concerned about their nail appointments.
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That isn't the gambit, the trick is to use the rise in oil prices as a smokescreen to hide the damage cap and trade (coming from an EPA near you) puts on the Energy industry, and he'll blame the "greedy oil companies" for the price increase.
Just watch, you can see it coming.
Yes ... and it won't be pretty as people BEHAVE like a third world country. It's coming ... Look at the Parkland in Arizona. It is closed off to LEGAL CITIZENS because it is too dangerous and over run with ILLEGALS and other CRIMINALS. Yet, our borders, north and south, remain WIDE OPEN, on purpose!
Why would anyone think he cares? Both he and Oprah said-”We have to destroy America to change it.” Obama and pals are working overtime on destruction. Both are my enemy.
There are plenty of safety regulations now, only BP ignored them, and the Obama administration allowed it.
This is just another shot at the economy of the US and a helping hand to the green weenies.
“...In a scathing document, eight of the “experts” the Administration listed in its report said their names had been “used” to “justify” a “political decision.” The draft they reviewed had not included a six-month drilling moratorium. The Administration added that provision only after it had secured sign-off. In their document, the eight forcefully rejected a moratorium, which they argued could prove more economically devastating than the oil spill itself and “counterproductive” to “safety.”
This is utterly beyond words. And I thought the little CBO games they played with Obamadon’tcare were bad enough.
Attn: GOP- stop being so defensive about Barton, and seize on this. People are losing their jobs because of this!
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