Posted on 07/12/2010 2:12:40 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
WASHINGTON — After two court rulings against its six-month moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling, the Obama administration on Monday announced a revised ban that it described as essential and appropriate.
The Interior Department said the revised ban incorporates "new evidence regarding safety concerns" as well as new procedures to gather industry feedback. Moreover, the revision suspends drilling not based on water depth, it said, "but on the basis of the drilling configurations and technologies."
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We the People are getting the “deep drilling” right now, but it’ll be restricted in November.
Obowma is hell bent on destroying the US offshore oil drilling industry. And then our economy. I guess no doubt about what Rev Wright was talking about anymore, is there. Hint, BLT is Marxism.
What was it about the inappropriateness of the drilling ban the court said that Obowma did not understand.
Just think how mad Americans will get once they understand you can refine coal into liquid fuel, gasoline and diesel, using 1920s technology. UT recently competed a study saying the cost of doing so would be less than $30 a barrel oil equivalent.
And then people will figure out how much of modern life depends on oil, and that’s not just fuel, things like iPhones. Start with plastics ... and things made of plastics.
Maybe we should offer a $1,000,000 prize to anyone who can find one scintilla of difference between the CPUSA and the Democrats platform.
The "Congressional Progressive Caucus" must be targeted and destroyed as well their allies in the press and academia.
No holds barred, take no prisoners, name names and make these red bastards pay dearly for the consequences of nearly one hundred years of insidious and unrelenting attacks on capitalism and judeo-christian morality.
CPUSA And Obama Platforms Are Identical
Forget for the moment about Bill Ayers and Obama’s other Communist friends and mentors of the distant past.
From the current ‘Election 2008′ brochure from the Communist Party Of The United States (a pdf file):
A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is a time of great possibility.
Issued as a public service by the Communist Party USA
The choice is clear. Stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4.
A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is a time of great possibility. Across the land, people are coming together to reshape our nation’s priorities to make government “of, by and for the people” a reality.
From the Midwest to the South, from coast to coast, in big cities and rural communities voters have turned out in record numbers for change.
A landslide vote on November 4 can open the way to recovery from the very deep wounds of the Bush administration and decades of corporate right-wing control.
There is a crisis in every critical area of national life. Profits at the top are record high, but families can’t make ends meet. Trillions are squandered in Iraq, but 45 million are without health care. Billions are spent on tax breaks to the super rich, but working families are losing their homes and young people can’t afford higher education.
Working people want bold new policies to end war restore democratic traditions and create green living wage jobs, affordable housing, healthcare and quality education for everyone.
Republican John McCain, the candidate of the military industrial complex, will continue the Bush agenda. “100 years” in Iraq, Social Security privatization, and tax cuts for the rich. His Republican partners in Congress have blocked, stalled or gutted every bill that benefits working people since they lost majority control in 2006.
Although the ultra-right is weakened and divided, they continue to push fear, division, racism and anti-immigrant bigotry in this year’s elections, aided and abetted by the corporate media. These multi-pronged poisonous tactics can only be overcome with unbreakable unity.
The choice is clear. Stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4.
Voters are demanding a new kind of politics to rebuild our country for the common good. A democratic spirit of unity and hope is inspiring millions to get involved.
During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, unemployed workers and their allies marched and organized until public works jobs, Social Security and New Deal programs were won. In the 1960’s the great civil rights movement won the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
In 2008, union members, African Americans, Latinos, youth and women, seniors, environmental and peace voters are forging a powerful new all encompassing movement that makes great changes possible.
Help make history. Talk with co-workers, neighbors, friends and family. Volunteer to knock on doors, make calls, get online to turnout a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4, and keep the movement going.
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We offer these proposals as a contribution toward the bold policy changes necessary to meet the immediate needs of working people, eliminate poverty and move our country forward with a new President and Congress. Funding to come from monies now being spent on the Iraq war, military budget and tax breaks to the super rich.
1. Immediate Relief
A moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Reset mortgages so payments are affordable. No bail outs for banks.
Extend unemployment compensation, increase payments and eligibility. Increase food stamps, WIC, children’s health insurance, and low income energy assistance.
Assist deficit-ridden state and local governments so they can preserve services and jobs. Fund “ready-to-go” infrastructure projects.
2. A Peacetime, Green Jobs Economy for All
Enact massive public works job creation to make existing buildings energy efficient, construct new schools, hospitals, affordable housing, mass transit and bridges. Priority to areas hurt by loss of manufacturing, loss of family farms and highest unemployment areas including the Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast.
Major clean, affordable energy development project for solar, wind and biomass electricity generation. Immediate program to cut greenhouse gas emissions and for environmental cleanup. Restore Federal energy regulation and encourage public ownership of utilities.
Enact the Employee Free Choice Act to enable workers to form unions without intimidation and win higher wages and benefits, dignity and respect.
Enact HR 676 the US National Health Insurance Act to provide universal health insurance with single-payer financing. Fully fund public education from pre-school through higher education and technical training. No privatization of Social Security or Medicare. Expand and improve benefits.
3. Restore Civil Rights, the Bill of Rights and Separation of Powers
Restore Civil Rights Act enforcement, affirmative action in employment, education, and housing. End the “school to prison” pipeline. Outlaw hate crimes. Preserve Roe v. Wade.
Pass immigration reform with legalization, a path to citizenship, due process, no militarization of the borders, and no exploitative guest worker programs. No human being is illegal.
Repeal Patriot Act. Restore Habeas Corpus rights. No more torture. Investigate and prosecute Bush administration violations of the Constitution.
Expand voting rights. Enact publicly financed elections, same day registration, voting rights for ex-felons, verifiable voting equipment, and instant runoff voting. Restore Fairness Doctrine in media.
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Withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq with no bases or U.S. corporations left behind. Full care for returning veterans. No war on Iran or expansion of troops in Afghanistan. Assistance to Iraqi people to rebuild their country.
Adopt a new foreign policy of diplomacy and respect for all nations, instead of preemptive war for corporate interests. Renew commitment to UN peace role.
End trade policies that enrich corporations while destroying jobs. Ratify Kyoto Treaty and other climate change agreements.
Enforce nuclear non-proliferation, work to abolish nuclear weapons. Cut Pentagon spending in half, close down US bases around the world.
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So what happens, this gets taken to court and overturned again and then bambi issues another and another? Maybe it’s time judges started holding federal officials in contempt like they would for the rest of us.
I think we should write “DUMP OBAMA” on all our ballots in November. Let the a**hole know what he’s up against.
It’s still an arbitrary and capricious moratorium. Salazar still can’t prove that a blanket ban is needed. He still can’t prove that the other drilling operations will cause imminent danger to the region. He’ll lose again.
Damage will be completed long before November and November won't mean much until January, then too late. Most of this Administration has done cannot be undone.
So, the first two bans were nonessential and inappropriate?
see tagline
If gasoline is pushing $4 per gallon or there are lines at the pumps this fall, Democrats may become an endangered species.
praying that the Court will not only likewise reject this one, but will hold Salazar and Obama in contempt
That's true. With $4/gallon gas (or more), the fantastical projections of 70 seats in the House and 13 in the Senate, become much less fantastical.
I'm not quite sure what the Dem angle is here, or if they've even thought this through. Yes, there is depressed demand for oil because of the global recession, but once you take this (the Gulf production) out of the supply chain for an extended period of time, it's going to have an inflationary effect on prices - right about the time for the mid-terms.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
“November won’t mean much until January, then too late.”
I keep reading and hearing that, but I don’t believe that the Dims are ALL going to give up any chance of staying on the public dole in some other form, or that the Witches and Scott Brown will continue to defect on hard left policies. Sorry, I know you are logical, but I think you let the media stampede you on this one...
“Most of this Administration has done cannot be undone.”
Why not?
Why do you think it's a Republican state? I mean, really?
They have had lots of bad Democrat Gov’s, and I recall one Repub. Gov going to prison (casino licensing, as I recall).
Really, the state is interesting, but IMHO it leans more left than right.
Why the O is acting this way I do no know - perhaps it's because Jindal is a Republican. I'm not sure the state is ‘R,’ though.
It Begins… First Oil Rig Relocates From Gulf to Foreign Waters"As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed," Dickerson said. "We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation."
It is not just Gulf operations that are being effected either.
Wait and see for Shell {Shell puts Arctic drilling plans on hold, waiting on feds}
ON the 4th of July weekend, I paid $2.89 per gallon for Shell Premium. Back in Los Angelus, I have to pay $3.31.
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