Its a multi-pronged strategy designed to accomplish several goals namely:
1) Give the edge to 0Bommer's sugar daddy George Soros* (see additional notes at the end)
2) By waiting 70 days before accepting foreign assistance to help with the cleanup this gave adequate time for the damage to be done and thus the enviro-wackos can say "see how evil & bad oil drilling is for your environment!!"
3) With offshore oil drilling shutdown this creates more unemployment (up to 1,650,000 directly & indirectly) and artificially creates all these welfare dependents needing govt assistance
4) With less oil being produced in the USA it drives up the price of energy which is the great desire of the liberals since they want this as a catalyst to force the country to move to these ultra-expensive green energy sources (solar, wind, etc) which cost up to 8x per kilowatt and are highly vulnerable to the effects of weather.
George Soros is fully the puppet master behind ALL the 0boma does. Soros is the sum total of all those evil geniuses seen in the James Bond flicks who are doing evil schemes to harm the world. However I digress, Soros owns an 1/3 stake in the Brazil oil company Petronas and with this drilling ban in place all those oil drilling platforms becomes idled!! However these expensive platforms are expensive and cost up to $1 million per day to operate and with thousands of them being idled, the owners of them needs to be making money or losing their shirts. So Soros simply asks 0bama to literally give him the platforms with the stroke of a pen banning oil drilling in the gulf and thousands of them fall into his hands which is diverted to Brazil and his 1/3 stake worth $900 Millions and makes a killing at the American Taxpayers expense. Oh btw, if thats not enough ine of the 1st thing 0boma did when taking office was to give Brazil a LOAN for $2 BILLION for their oil development!!
So kill our American oil production while lending to a foreign country and helping them in every which way possible - even at the expense of the environment, jobs and oil security!!
I have heard on other sites that the cost is 350 million to build one and that they rent of a million bucks per day so when zero first shut them down my guess is they started plans to move them immediately to all parts of the world.