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.
Hello Former Military Chick,
Well if obammy refuses to allow drilling while he is in office, then we all need to get his sorry Marxist ass out ASAP.
Obama is an imposter
who should either cooperate with the investigation of his actual birth and/or be removed.
“I like to play twister with dead cats”.
saw it on a Tee shirt.
Two thirds of American’s want to drill/develop nukes. Barry said, “NO” Some representative government we have.
My beloved would agree using the “I” word to be more to the point.
I am so disappointed that NOBODY not even FOX is covering this.
It matters and does so in so many ways.
Great to see you sir.
IF????? you mean when.
I believe it will get darn near $6/gal or rationing time when Israel hits Iran. Glad I have my 55mpg motorcycle to go to work on, if work still exists.
A lot of us would expect nothing else from this moron. That is something that would actually help America! It’s economy and security. We know his feeling on that is, we can’t have that.
Ditto, what you said!
Please don’t use this admin. or congress’s terminology. No one creates jobs. That would be to imply the purpose of business is charity, to create positions for people, and it is not. Success in business, instead, is what creates the possibility of positions being needed to facilitate more business. And yes, drilling would do that, in more ways than one. It would also help the economy in a lot of ways, not to mention contribute to security.
As we know, profits that might require the hiring of more people, and national security are two things this pre_sident does not want.
To Obamah, A wealthy, self-sufficient, super-power status of America is unfair to the planet's non-producers.
If Obama has ever received a single $1 from any Saudi or other oil-rich foreign official for education or election (or UN award) purposes, this constitutes treason-for-hire.
read in AM
He signed a lot of EO’s just after he got in to do this...wonder if his locking up another 10 M in land locks up more low sulfer coal, natural gas or oil? Well how silly of me, of course it does. More broken promises.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~~ President Ronald Reagan
We The People, Ray Stevens (obamacare) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
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OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security, http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts
Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html
Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors
Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html
Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors (Cuts SS CHECKS)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467213/posts
Obama to outline $313 billion in Medicare, Medicaid spending cuts
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/14/nation/na-obama-radio14
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SOCIALIZED MEDICINE THREAD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467668/posts
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MILITARY & Retired MILITARY
Veterans’ G.I. Bill benefits MIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
10th amendment really applies here....why not the States just do their own thing and tell Barry and Co. to shove it....??
Bastard communist pig 0bozo!!!
I don't think that any longer. It really seems as if this pathetic suckwad is actively trying to ruin America.
If the dim-bulb in the White House keeps it up, he’s going to have a revolution to worry about before his term is up. He’s pushing it just a little too far........
Don’t believe it. There is enough oil in shale and in sands than we’ll ever need. Colorado and Utah are also developing new techniques to get the oil out as cheaply as possible, while high oil prices are making that economically feasible. It’s that pesky free market thing.
American interests aren’t Zero’s concern. I believe sometime in the distant future, we will discover things he did during however long he stayed in office to be even more outrageous. Like Rush said today, at some point out of frustation, the man-child will expose himself.
Obama is “owned” by the Muslim Oil Mafia. This started with his supporting mentor Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, real name Donald Warden, radical black muslim, anti-Semite, anti-white, financial advisor of prominent Saudis, mentor of Black Panther Party, who recommended Obama to former Malcom X lawyer Percy Sutton, to get him into Harvard 1988-1991:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIVO8MZYXo8
Obama’s Harvard acceptance, tuition, Pres of Harvard Law Review position, degree were bought and paid for via Khalid Al-Mansour by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal:
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.html
Khalid Al-Mansour was financial advisor for Prince Talal, nephew of Saudi King Abdullah, and is the world’s 19th wealthiest person. The Prince donated $20 million to fund Islamic studies at Harvard during this time. You may also remember he attempted to donate millions to help rebuild NYC after 9/11, Talal stating he hoped the West now understood it’s worldly failings, money which Giuliani refused. Has holdings in Citibank, Carlyle Group, owns 20% of FOX news, numerous investments in media and entertainment companies, real estate.
Khalid Al-Mansour also believed to be solicited by his friend William Ayers, to finance Obama’s education at Harvard.
Why Obama is being funded by Khalid Al-Mansour, how he was discovered and what is desired of him in return is not clear. Some believe Obama’s first mentor in HI, Frank Marshall Davis, pervert, Communist, recommended him thru channels.
This Middle East Connection also financed Obama’s Presidential run.
$778 million ($150 million in September 2008) in campaign dollars Obama received in 2008, much of it coming from 37,000 foreign sources, mostly through untraceable, one-time use cash gift cards:
Obama’s Secret Campaign Cash: Has $63 Million Flowed from Foreign Sources?
http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/obama-illegal-donations/2009/12/12/id/341673
The FEC surely would have revealed a scandal by now, if only Obama hadn’t been the first major presidential candidate in American history NOT to accept funds from the Presidential Election Campaign Funds ... and therefore NOT subject to any FEC investigation.
Obama uses these funds on top law firms to thwart his citizenship ineligibility lawsuits around the country:
http://www.therightsideoflife.com/current-lawsuit-listing/eligibility-case-archive/
For his financial backing, puppet Obama’s motives and actions are now clear:
*LIBYA got their Lockerbie Bomber released which Obama could have stopped and did not. Khadaffi calls Obama a Muslim son. Obama gave Khadaffi $2.5 million. Obama campaigned for Khadaffi-backed Odinga.
*SYRIA gets an ambassador with full diplomatic rights and Boeing contracts which stunned the diplomatic community as it appears Obama did all this for “nothing”, when it was all payback.
*Obama bows to the Saudi King. 9/11 terrorists offers American rights, due process; rest of Gitmo terrorists planned for Il Correctional facility.
*Obama negotiates with terrorists in Hamas, gives Hamas $20 million in relocation assistance.
*IRAN: Obama allows Iran to develop its weapons unfettered.
Enterepreneur workshop for Muslims, NASA must “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy, etc
List goes on....
Hey Obozo, perhaps we should just start drilling on Uranus!!!!!!
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