Posted on 12/24/2016 5:14:32 AM PST by Kaslin
resident Obama apparently wants his legacy to be one of energy starvation for the United States and dependence on foreign energy from friendly places like Saudi Arabia and Iran. His ban on offshore drilling in federally owned waters off our Atlantic and Arctic coasts makes no sense, either environmentally or economically. As the Washington Times notes, Obama thinks he can get away with it:
Vowing that his successor wont be able to reverse his actions, President Obama on Tuesday used executive authority to permanently ban new offshore drilling in federally owned waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean.
Mr. Obama used authority in a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law, to ban the drilling. The law includes a provision that allows a president to put certain waters off-limits to oil and gas production.
The presidential authority was used in conjunction with similar actions by Canada, which also moved to prohibit drilling in its own Arctic waters. The U.S. move will ban drilling in the vast majority of American waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, in addition to areas off the Atlantic coast stretching from New England to Virginia.
It is ironic that a president who has used executive orders to get around laws now cites a 63-year-old law to justify an offshore drilling ban. Executive orders can be overturned with another executive order. And a 1953 law written when offshore and deep water drilling technology was in its infancy can be amended or repealed. Technology has advanced a lot since 1953. Hydraulic fracturing or fracking didnt exist six decades ago. Oil drilling technology is safer, more advanced and requires a smaller footprint.
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The traveller also mentioned a few obvious misspellings on the pedestal.
Obama loves that Mussolini pose of his, but unlike Mussolini, Obama couldn’t even make the trains run on time.
See comment #43. You are so right.
Political cartoonist Ramirez said it best (subliminal? The rods supporting his legs are bent in the shape of the hammer and sickle):
My dad worked at the Exxon refinery in Baton Rouge. As a teenager, I drove a Sedan deVille, (you could buy them used for peanuts, then), which Dad filled every night with 5 gallons of fresh brewed Exxon Premium, he brought home from the plant in a can.
Why wouldn't they be? He's a commie after all
Like I keep saying the worst president in the American history.
Please implore Trump to ask Hank Williams Jr to sing at the Inaugral.
Please implore Trump to ask Hank Williams Jr to sing at the Inaugral.
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