Posted on 02/25/2009 4:25:29 PM PST by PilotDave
In a second reversal of the Bush administration, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he is scrapping leases for oil-shale development on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Salazar rescinded a lease offer made last month for research, development and demonstration projects that could have led to oil-shale works on 1.9 million acres in the three states, greatly expanding the program.
"I am withdrawing that Jan. 14 solicitation because in my view it was a midnight decision, and it was flawed," Salazar told reporters on a teleconference call from Washington, D.C
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War, maybe civil war.
Depression
OMG this truly is horrible.
And where are the republicans demanding that this be reversed?
It was a flawed decision. In other words, da boss man done kick mah ass! He say, “What you do dat fo, fool!”
Because now this isn’t a situation that can be fixed by political negotiation. It is not difficult to see what the end result will be...
Oops. I forgot it was a Bush offer.
During last year’s debates about more oil drilling and more domestic energy production, Democrats were against any new drilling. They said that energy companies weren’t using all of the leases they currently had, and that they should drill and explore on the land covered by existing leases.
Now this new administration is eliminating the existing leases that the oil companies were supposed to use before we started any new drilling/exploration?
And last night Obama said that we import more oil than we ever have, and that’s got to change. Exactly where are we going to get new energy resources to replace these oil imports though?
We're mad at Obama because Bush took 8 years to get this started...waiting till a week before the end of term?
Are you kidding?
Why does Salazar constantly wear a cowboy hat?
Because it covers up his extremely pointy (and empty) head!
Salazar wants to shake down the oil companies for more money. He’ll re-lease the land once they cough up some serious money to the DNC or (fill in name of liberal organization).
The article says these leases came into effect on 1/14/09, so I don’t think they’d really be considered as the “existing leases” you refer to.
Zero is doing everything possible to destroy the automobile industry, and with it goes the country.
Lock and load! Salazar doesn’t deserve my spit!
Windmills my friend. Windmills/s/
Obamanation speaks with forked tongue.
And you thought $4/gal was high... just you wait. And mark my words....these piece of sh*t dems will blame it on Bush, Cheney, Big Oil and greedy rich people. Hey it worked with this fiasco we are in now.... and our sitting president doesn’t even know who actually invented the automobile.... not to matter, neither do the 52% of losers that voted for him.... this too shall pass, but at what cost????
A little more precise, perhaps?
Why to worry?
Soon all state land will be federal for our own good in the USA.
Washington will do a better job of regulating and sustaining than states could ever want to do in the "USA" so Ken has the right idea,....
SHRED THE CONSTITUTION!
Good plan Tonto. Let’s make sure we don’t develop any of our own domestic energy resources. Let’s do everything we can to increase the cost of gasoline and other fuels. And the guy is from Colorado. When he ran for the Senate, he ran as a “centrist.” Guess that charade is over.
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