The Obama Moratorium: No offshore drilling while he’s in office

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 03/10/10 | Barbara Hollingsworth

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

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

[HiTech RedNeck]

IMPEACH THE TRAITOR

[ClearCase_guy]

President Palin will end the ban.

[massgopguy]

There’ll be new offshore drilling for gas and oil. The rigs will have Chinese flags on them.

[Carry_Okie]

Our lenders have spoken.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

The MSM fails at reporting this. It was kept QUIET as the article says.

What more could this usurper do to bring down America?

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Anything to hurt America.

[DonaldC]

$2.90/gal here and climbing....thanks obama.

[onedoug]

There's A Communist Living In The White House

[Frantzie]

Stooge for the Saudis. Lots of stooges in DC, London, Europe on the take from the Saudis including environmental groups.

[edcoil]

Where does State waters end and Federal waters begin?

[CondoleezzaProtege]

President Palin will end the ban.

this again proves why Palin and ONLY Palin should be the candidate we put up against Obama come 2012.

[ilovesarah2012]

“No offshore drilling while he’s in office”

Well, we need to get him out of office.

[Venturer]

This should leave no doubt in anyones mind which side Obama is on. Hint: It isnt the American Public’s

[Pollster1]

Palin: “Drill Baby, drill!”

Obama: “Drill in Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela, but not anywhere that the money will stay in the United States.”

Why does he hate my country so much, and when can we get a real American back into our White House?

[ClearCase_guy]

Exactly. I have a very hard time thinking of anyone who could be a better choice. I mean, Reagan is dead, so who else is there?

Sarah Palin is no nonsense. She has great integrity, and she understands Energy. On her first day in office, she'd just say, "That ban hurts America. It's lifted. Now -- you! -- your task is to work with the oil companies and get things moving. Drill here. Drill now. Get it done."

[Gator113]

Impeach here, impeach now.

[erikm88]

Sets us up for nationalization.... don’t think he won’t do it. Chavez is his mentor.

[raptor22]

This outrage will cost the U.S. economy dearly: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452864/posts

[Dewey Revoltnow]

Didn’t he send $1 billion U.S. dollars to Petrobas of Brazil to drill offshore down there? You know, the company Soros is invested in.