During the week before the disaster, Obama surprisingly announced that he was for off-shore drilling.
Then, shortly after the disaster, Obama announced that he was no longer for off-shore drilling.
“Faced with uncertainly and a clearly hostile Obama Administration, deep water oil drilling rigs are starting to pack up and move out of the Gulf of Mexico.”
http://yoursinglesourcefornews.com/deep-water-oil-drilling-rigs-leaving-the-gulf-region/1712/