Posted on 03/10/2010 2:20:50 PM PST by Former Military Chick
The Obama administration’s six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become a new three-year ban, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters last Friday. Which means that no new oil and gas leases will be approved during President Obama’s term even though two –thirds of the American public supports such activity, according to a December 2009 Rasmussen poll.
Sixty percent also believe that gas and oil prices will drop if the government allows offshore drilling, opening up an estimate 14 billion barrels of oil and 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas
On July 14, 2008 President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on Outer Continental Shelf leasing. On October 1, 2008, in a bipartisan agreement, Congress lifted another longstanding ban on new oil and gas leasing in the OCS.
Drilling was supposed to begin this July. But Salazar said he intends to discard the 2010-2015 lease plan developed by the Bush administration in favor of a new plan that won’t even go into effect until 2012.
“Secretary Salazar has finally confirmed what had long been feared – that the Obama Administration has no intention of opening up new areas for offshore drilling during his four-years in office,” said Rep. Doc Hastings, the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee.
So for the next three years and probably more, trillions of dollars in domestic energy assets will remain untouched while billions of dollars more are spent on foreign oil.
OK
Focusing on the economy like a laser — to kill it.
Another example of ...
Obama-nomics [link list]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2464021/posts?page=4
Sarah Palin: Drill, baby, drill
UK Guardian Jul 14, 2009 ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/14/sarah-palin-energy-obama
Sarah Palin: Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan threatens our economy and national security. We need to tap America’s sources of energy.
Half of my letters brand me an idiot - President Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468312/posts
US President Barack Obama has joked that half of the 40,000 letters that pour into the White House each day brand him an “idiot’’.
DRILL BABY DRILL should be the Platform of the Republican Party.
Yucca Mountain is IRRELEVANT to modern nuclear power!
No water required for cooling, little waste, and what there is can be reprocessed.
We can deal with the Nuke power issue intelligently as soon as Jimmah Catah’s legacy preventing reprocessing is nullified.
Not that it matters until the new design plants are actually built.
Restrict people to the point where they make it hard to grow one’s own food and fish.
Revolution comes to my mind...No fishing, no hunting, no drilling...country bankrupt...22% Unemployment...People losing their homes...millions on food stamps...Obamavilles under Interstate bridges everywhere...
REVOLUTION!
Last year he gives $2 billion to Brazil to help them with their off shore oil exploration. But he intends to stop the US from exploring????
I can’t keep up with all the big and small things Obama, his administration and the Democrat traitors in Congress have done since he was inaugurated that serve to hurt this country and her citizens on basic activities.
But what happens to the oil shale projects if Obama declares those lands federal wilderness property or national parks or some such? That would end that little bit of hope wouldn’t it?
nobama is a usurper. nobama is an enemy of Freedom. nobama hates America we love. Pox upon those who voted for him. Resist! Resist! Resist! Always remember who is destroying your country. Resist them for the children...
Why are you wondering? It is quite plain that you are not a staving person living in a dusty village so Hussein's motorcade can pass through and he can see the wisdom in your bulging eyes ... yet.
But it’s OK for our tax dollars to subsidize George Soros and his company drilling off the shore of Brazil.
“I don’t see why this liar’s approval ratings are above 10%”
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Stupid approval of stupid policy comes from stupid people.
“Stupid is as stupid does”, said Forrest Gump’s mama.
We have a far higher percentage of stupid in America than anyone wants to believe. That is, of course, except for the traitors who depend on the stupid to elect them.
To be truly stupid one must be blissfully unaware on one’s own mental failings, we have millions upon millions of such people, many fancy themselves to be highly intelligent.
It is true, there really is a campaign to dumb down America and it has succeeded magnificently.
If the media wasn’t corrupt, this story would be HUGE.
And Gas will be over 3.00 a gallon this summer.
This guy really doesn’t want to win in 2012...
He is going to make it so easy for President Palin in 2012. All she has to do is repeal a few of his moronic drilling bans and lower taxes and the economy will go through the stratosphere.
Maybe impeachment will shorten his illegitamate stay in the White House..Then drilling can start..
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