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Energy: You have to give President Obama credit. Knowing well that much of his legacy is soon to be erased, he's not going quietly. One of his final acts as he hits the door will be to take one last swing with government's giant mallet at the fossil-fuel industry. For his biggest swipe at the oil business, Obama hopes to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in both Alaska and parts of the Atlantic... ...to cement his reputation as a champion of climate change. "If true, millions of people around the world will be grateful to President Obama...

In a move that will likely be overturned promptly by the administration of Donald Trump, president Obama on Tuesday formally blocked offshore oil and gas drilling in most of the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, responding to a call from environmentalists who say the government needs to do more to prevent drilling in environmentally sensitive areas of U.S.-controlled oceans. The president had been expected to take the action by invoking a provision in a 1953 law that governs Outer Continental Shelf offshore leases, and he did just that to block drilling in federal waters in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea and most...

This decision reverses a previous proposal from the Obama administration (WASHINGTON)— In a major reversal, the Obama administration says it will not allow oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter, declaring that the administration’s next five-year offshore drilling plan “protects the Atlantic for future generations.” The announcement reverses a proposal made last year in which the administration floated a plan that would have opened up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling. The January 2015 proposal would have opened up sites more than 50 miles off Virginia, North and...

resident Obama is planning $300 billion in infrastructure and other green energy-related projects over the next ten years, which is part of a string of last minute budget requests that have zero chance of passing Congress. The president's plan to pay for it all: a $10-a-barrel oil tax (via Politico): The biggest chunk of Obama's proposed new spending, about $20 billion a year—roughly equivalent to the EPA and Interior Department budgets combined—would go to “enhanced transportation options," especially alternatives to driving and flying. That would include subways, buses, light rail, freight rail modernization projects, and a major expansion of the...

Empty Boast: As we have noted before in our Issues & Insights pages, President Obama has taken credit for an energy boom he had nothing to do with. A government agency now confirms what many have known to be true. The Congressional Research Service has released a report, "U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production in Federal and Non-Federal Areas," that corroborates what we've said. "All of the increase (in oil and natural gas production) from FY2007 to FY2012 took place on non-federal lands, and the federal share of total U.S. crude oil production fell by about seven percentage points,"...

What amount of money will now have to be offered to non-Muslims to live and work in Muslim countries, and especially in the oil and gas facilities that are such obvious targets for Muslim terrorists? Perhaps it won't be possible to find enough foreigners willing, whatever the price, to work at such places. After all,there is great suspicion that the attack on the Algerian plant had inside help, among the Muslims working there, and it won't be possible -- or would it? -- to banish all Muslims from oil and gas plants all over the Muslim world? Wouldn't it be...

Taking heat on the campaign trail over fossil fuel production on federal lands, the Interior Department today announced an oil and gas lease sale that will offer more than 20 million acres off the coast of Texas and will make available all unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. The sale will be held Nov. 28 in New Orleans. “The President’s commitment to a comprehensive, all-of-the-above energy strategy is creating jobs here at home while reducing our dependence on foreign oil,” said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. “Exploration and development of our Western Gulf’s vital energy resources will...

Oil & Gas/Fact & Fiction SeriesStrategy: Wittingly or not, President Obama has contributed to high oil prices by stymieing U.S. production. But if that's the idea, it makes sense to secure energy abroad. He hasn't. In fact, Obama's stated policy, in his March 30, 2011, energy speech has been a crude central planner's diktat of reducing oil imports by a third over the next 10 years and replacing them with increased production of biofuels and other unproven "green" energies yet to be developed. Net result: high oil prices and reduced U.S. access to overseas suppliers. A shrewder strategy would have...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Wilmington, Delaware. We're gonna start with Michael. I'm great. You appreciate your patience, and hello, sir. CALLER: How you doing, Rush? And thanks for taking the call. Affordable energy is the absolute, I believe, only way back for this country. RUSH: Yep. CALLER: We cannot create jobs unless we go to the bottom of the job-creation ladder. RUSH: People have to get to work! CALLER: You must have a manufacturer or a person with an idea to open up a little warehouse -- a plant, a garage, wherever -- and bring energy into that building, powerfully and...

They would never go to a red state.

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For all his reputation as the nation's Top Talker, Barack Obama took his sweet time giving a maiden Oval Office address to the country. And waiting another nearly 60 days to speak nationally about the oil spill that’s become the worst environmental disaster in the nation’s history. Obama, the first modern president to pass his first full year in office without addressing the country from his historic desk, had the setting right. Just back from a day-and-a-half on the gulf coast listening, reassuring, talking tourism, eating seafood. He wore the proper suit, had the requisite flags and family photos in...

FReep This Poll! Gulf Oil Spill Do you approve of the president's handling of the Gulf oil spill? Yes No Go to the link provided here. Scroll down a bit and look for the poll on the right hand side of the Fox 5 homepage (above Chrissy's Outfit of the Day). Vote your choice...

WASHINGTON -- The White House asked Congress Wednesday to raise limits on BP's liability for the Gulf oil spill, approve new spending on everything from food stamps to seafood inspections and increase taxes on oil companies for an emergency cleanup fund. Administration officials said they couldn't forecast total costs from the cleanup of the massive spill and a multitude of economic damages to the Gulf region, but the changes they're seeking in the legislative package unveiled Wednesday suggest a multibillion-dollar response. The administration wants to increase from $1 billion to $1.5 billion the amount that could be spent from an...

Can they still blame Bush and his ties to the Oil industry? Maybe it's Dick Cheney and Halliburton. The lib media is uninterested, but oil is up big, and there's not a Republican in sight they can blame it on...