Obozo and the EPA will kill it.
You beat me to the punch.
Yep, you can bet the EPA and the Dept of non-Energy are burning the midnight to put the kebosh to this.
Patriots need to start reconnecting with the federal government's constitutionlly limited powers to put a stop to Obama's Constitution-ignoring socialistic agenda. Given that Congress has no Section 8, Article I power to regulate intrastate resources, Obama cannot sign into law any bill from Congress to regulate intrastate oil drilling imo.
Note that where the Commerce Clause (1.8.3) is concerned, using terms like "does not extend" and "exclusively," Thomas Jefferson had clarified that Congress has no business sticking its big nose into intrastate commerce; FDR's activist justices got the Commerce Clause wrong in Wickard v. Filburn.
“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively (emphases added) with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
Also, the Founding States made Sections 1-3 of Article I of the Constitution to clarify that all federal government legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not rogue federal agencies like the EPA. In other words, Congress has a monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. And Congress can't regulate the environment because the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to regulate the environment.
So please tell me what I'm overlooking concerning constitutionally indefensible involvement by Obama and the constitutionally undefined EPA in North Dakota oil drilling.