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Obama’s Drilling Freeze Will Cost 120,000 Jobs
Eyeblast TV ^
| 6/16/2010
| Joe Schoffstall
Posted on 06/16/2010 10:08:16 AM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv
Despite the Gulf regions economy being damaged from the seemingly endless oil spill, President Obama has implemented a six month moratorium on drilling in the region. This ban on drilling is estimated to cost 120,000 people their jobs, as some oil companies may be relocating to more energy friendly areas.
According to Wood Mackenzie Research and Consulting, the six month moratorium will result in the following:
* The 33 drilling platforms which support some 1,400 workers, offshore and onshore will be forced to shut down
* As many as 46,200 jobs could be idled by the moratorium
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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: gulfregion; jobslost; moratorium; oilspill
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To: blog.Eyeblast.tv
There are rigs already making plans to head to Brazil. Just as Soros planned.
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posted on
06/16/2010 10:10:01 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: blog.Eyeblast.tv
Bah. I don’t live anywhere near a coast. Drill baby, drill!
3
posted on
06/16/2010 10:12:08 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Red_Devil 232
Yes! And those jobs will be lost permanently, as will market position.
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posted on
06/16/2010 10:15:10 AM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(Obama: "I will gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.")
To: blog.Eyeblast.tv
That’s OK, we need another 100,000 or so temporary census workers....
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posted on
06/16/2010 10:16:11 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(Home Depot should begin stocking up on pitchforks and torches.)
To: Toddsterpatriot; 1rudeboy
Oh well, you guys can console yourselves with the fact that they pay less in Brazil.
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posted on
06/16/2010 10:27:43 AM PDT
by
investigateworld
(Abortion stops a beating Heart)
To: Made In The USA
Thats OK, we need another 100,000 or so temporary census workers....
Heard that boy king wants to do a census every year.
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posted on
06/16/2010 10:37:20 AM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: blog.Eyeblast.tv; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...
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posted on
06/16/2010 10:46:50 AM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: blog.Eyeblast.tv
This will be thousands more drawing unemployment.. which extends now 99wks..putting more strain on already broke states...
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posted on
06/16/2010 10:47:46 AM PDT
by
JoanneSD
To: Nachum
As long as it doesn’t crimp his hundred-dollar-a-pound wagyu beef parties, he’s fine with that.
To: blog.Eyeblast.tv
Oil field workers are not a forgiving lot.
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posted on
06/16/2010 10:57:59 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(The 0bama regime represents an "Clear and Present Danger" to the US - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: blog.Eyeblast.tv
No worries, they can be hired by the Census.
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posted on
06/16/2010 11:06:06 AM PDT
by
Mark was here
(Fighting for freedom is never easy, especially when your enemies are merely fighting for free stuff.)
To: blog.Eyeblast.tv
120,000 will be the start. They are not taking into account the ripple jobs that will be lost as well.
To: blog.Eyeblast.tv
What an anti-stimulus! I heard an oil industry guy say something like “If you want to see a real economic stimulus, see how a 20 year old kid who makes $100,000 a year on an offshore rig uses his money!”
This ridiculous “moratorium” will not help the economy, and will in fact seriously hurt a lot of people, well beyond the offshore drilling industry.
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posted on
06/16/2010 11:10:57 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: All
Here's the
full text of President Obama's speech about the BP disaster/gusher in the Gulf of Mexico ...
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posted on
06/16/2010 1:44:51 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Travis T. OJustice
It’s bad for America.
Zero favours it.
Are we surprised?
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posted on
06/16/2010 1:50:12 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: investigateworld
Well, that’s one way for a protectionist to explain away all those rigs that are in the process of being towed elsewhere . . . .
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posted on
06/16/2010 2:09:43 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
Excuse me?
Haven't you always proposed that "Them that do it cheaper are "entitled?"
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posted on
06/16/2010 3:52:36 PM PDT
by
investigateworld
(Abortion stops a beating Heart)
To: Made In The USA
BINGO
the census will continue at least through November
maybe November 2012 LOL
To: investigateworld
Nope. And in this case, NOPE. You need to find some other windmills at which to tilt . . . .
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posted on
06/16/2010 4:01:50 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
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