Posted on 06/03/2010 11:35:19 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
The Minerals Management Service has stopped issuing permits for new oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico regardless of water depth, effectively extending President Obama's previously announced suspension of permits for deepwater drilling into the shallow waters.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Jobs? We don’t need no stinkin’ jobs.
Not like we didn’t see this coming about 50 miles offshore.....
We’ve all got jobs cleaning up the beaches along the gulf coast!
THAT SOB isn’t going to be satisfied until gas reaches 10 bucks a gallon.
He has to be responsible for the deaths of many due to stress causing heart attacks. I have never been so stressed in my life as I have been since his inauguration.
NEVER let a crises go to waste.
How about the next congress suspends funding for the MMS?
The One overreacts, yet again. I cannot wait for this clueless, lazy clown to leave office.
Sounds like more Government work
Okay. Goal has been achieved. Now barack really will plug the hole. Probably with just a wave of his hand.
With healthcare and union pension!
He won't care. If he doesn't care about live, fully formed innocent human infants left to die in a waste bin from botched abortions....what makes you think he would care about adult humans?
Jobs? We don’t need no stinkin’ jobs.
So it seems. Hope someone calls him on it. Just heard two folks calling in to Rush/Mark to complain about the serious loss of jobs due to this suspension.
Your link’s headline now reads this:
Interior Dept. denies it has extended drilling freeze to shallow gulf waters
Barrel of crude up a buck seventy-five right now. Just a co-ink-eee-dink I’m sure...
They really have no clue about the impact of the decisions they make. Ah but experience was not supposed to matter when it came to Obama, only his judgement counted. snicker
They just changed it, I guess...hard to keep up with Obama!
Oh man. A friend’s company sold a lease they had on a Gulf tract a couple of years ago. I bet they are snoopy dancing right now.
Interior Dept. denies it has extended drilling freeze to shallow gulf waters
Note to mods...looks like WaPo just changed the title--see above.
Sorry for the trouble!
Obama gave a speech the other day using the BP oil spill as his excuse to remove the United States from ‘evil oil’ consumption.
So are we going to run our planes and autos with solar cells and windmills? LoL! Get ready for a car running on solar cells that goes 5mph and only has 1 seat...not to mention cloudy days.
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