The Obama Moritoriam: No Offshore Drilling While He's In Office

[blastoff]

This contradicts his State O' The Union address during which he called for opening new areas to offshore drilling. It will be interesting when industry reaction hits the news wires.

We are the only nation on earth that prohibits drilling of the outer continental shelf areas. Will it effect gas prices? Most likely not- there's plenty of crude worldwide. Besides, is that the objective- to keep gasoline and heating oil prices low?

Yep, it sure is a contradiction. Specifically: "But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development..."

Just more great oratory from Barry. Tell 'em what they wanna hear, but then do whatever you damn please. In other words give 'em some hope, but then change.

 

[beowolfe]

hold on to your hats...the price of gas is about to go through the roof

That was going to happen regardless.

 

[DE3]

This will punish the state of Texas, particularily Houston. New finds below Louisiana in Gulf of Mexico need development and many leases that were approved for drilling will be ceased. This will kill Louisianas economy and and hurt Americans all over the USA. Meanwhile Brazil will advance its offshore efforts along with Russia, and the Chinese will drill in Cuban waters horizontally near Florida siphoning Natural Resources for their energy needs as their economy grows at a substantial rate. This kind of ideology hurts all Americans with higher oil & gas prices with more money drained from America to buy foreign oil, and less jobs in the oil & gas industry. Sarah Palin warned us about this. I don't have to tell you that she would be doing the opposite pertaining to drilling offshore. She would increase it on land as well opening up millions of jobs. I am telling you that Obama is no friend to America. We need to take a stand against this Usurper and revolt against these harmful policies.


The Obama Moratorium: No offshore drilling while he?s in office | Washington Examiner


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.

Drilling was supposed to begin this July. But Salazar said he intends to discard the 2010-2015 lease plan developed by the Bush administration in favor of a new plan that won’t even go into effect until 2012. “Secretary Salazar has finally confirmed what had long been feared – that the Obama Administration has no intention of opening up new areas for offshore drilling during his four-years in office,”

Since this is not the whole article go to link above:

Did you happen to read the article that this misinformation piece supposedly made its conclusion? I would guess not.

Salazar eyes sequential offshore drilling plans - The Hill's E2-Wire

The White House has signaled that it is open to expanded offshore drilling as part of a comprehensive energy and climate package. Salazar’s upcoming announcement could tip the administration’s hand to some degree about what new areas it may be willing to consider.

It is always amazing the amount of disinformation rightwing media spews. Here is a good rule of thumb. If it is an opinion piece from a rightwing source there is a 90% chance it is wrong on the facts.

 

[beowolfe]

Well well well...it's another "let's piss off the American people really good day".

what "American people"? The ones who wouldn't vote for him if he turned water into wine? And it would take 10 years at best for drilling to be of any value to us.

And even then, it's effect would be negligible.

From inception to production, the largest of projects may take 10 years but that's the exception not the norm.

Why does a farmer who owns 100 acres even bother to grow food? We don't need it and the contribution is surely neglibible.

There are hundreds of thousands of land-based oilwells in this country, pumping an average of 3 barrels per day each. Many were drilled decades ago. Yet collectively they provide millions of jobs and contribute billions to the economy.

Whether oil comes from within our boundaries or from overseas will remain a critical issue well into the future. Obama is rediculously short-sighted when it comes offshore drilling.

I think you're the one being shortsighted. All oil experts agree, we will run out of oil. Now, you probably can't get two to agree on when, but they all agree we will. If that's the case, why not start to steer the country away from oil as a fuel before the oil runs out or gets to the point were we're having 'oil wars'. (For those who count Iraq as an 'oil war', we're already there.)

It makes more sense to me to invest our collective resources (and yes, they are OUR COLLECTIVE resources) into devising a fuel source that can take us further into the future and keep us out of the oil wars that are definitely coming.

 

[Avatar4321]

This has got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. You want to prevent us from creating more jobs during a recession???

And you guys wonder why it looks like Obama is delibrately trying to ruin this nation. I mean what the heck could he do different if he wanted destroy the economy? Nothing.

 

[beowolfe]

hold on to your hats...the price of gas is about to go through the roof

Hey there won't be any drilling of any of our own resources--& this congress & administration is also determined not to bill any nuclear power plants either. The only time they speak of it--is when the camera & micro-phone is turned on. Not one single penny in the 787 porkulus bill was dedicated to nuclear power.

Energy independance for this country is just another broken promise.
We still stimulate foreign countries that sell us energy. Nothing new here.

President Obama Announces Money for Nuclear Power Plant Row 2, Seat 4

Where do you guys get your information from? And why is it practically always wrong?

 

[Mr. H.]

It is always amazing the amount of disinformation rightwing media spews. Here is a good rule of thumb. If it is an opinion piece from a rightwing source there is a 90% chance it is wrong on the facts.

I was skeptical of this as there are still no similar stories on various oil and gas websites.

 

[beowolfe]

It is always amazing the amount of disinformation rightwing media spews. Here is a good rule of thumb. If it is an opinion piece from a rightwing source there is a 90% chance it is wrong on the facts.

I was skeptical of this as there are still no similar stories on various oil and gas websites.

And as usual, the wingnuts have latched onto it and run with it without checking anything to see if it's true. My theory is that people who wish and/or believe for Obama to fail are willing to believe anything that helps them reinforce their desires and/or preconceptions.

 

[gautama]

Well well well...it's another "let's piss off the American people really good day".

what "American people"? The ones who wouldn't vote for him if he turned water into wine? And it would take 10 years at best for drilling to be of any value to us.

And even then, it's effect would be negligible.

This HORRENDOUS Obamarrhoidal ABOMINATION Jillian somehow manages to make the MOST ILLOGICALLY IDIOTIC COMMENTS CONTINUALLY with an air of insouciance than anyone else on this Forum except maybe RDeanie The Hopeless Weanie.

Note this Political Idiot's comment: "What "American people" ? The ones who wouldn't for him (Jillian's Messiah) if he turned water into wine? "

HTF (HowTheFuck) could the "American people" vote for this MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami if we are like the fucking jews horrified of Hitler even if this asshole PROMISES he'll change water into wine ?!?!?!?

This POLITICAL IDIOT Jillian's next comment: "And even then, its effect would be negligible". This stupid twat is referring to offshore drilling and the need for additional nuclear plants.

Thus, this UBELIEVABLE POLITICAL PSYCHO Jillian downplays America's need to get into an ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY CRASH PROGRAM to boost our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES' ENERGY CONTROL over America by arguing that, in essence, HAVING OUR OWN OIL....plus CRITICALLY NECESSARY Nuclear Plants .........would somehow DECREASE our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES ?!?!?

Doesn't this Obamarrhoidal emesis realize that her brainless comment like that (even if true......which it isn't) would ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE, or at least MINIMIZE into insignificance our chances of EVER achieving ENERGY INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES ?!?!?

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd bet my bottom nickel that this TOXIC POLITICAL BARFBAG, who claims she had a hand in defending the maniacal "CHICAGO 7", and actually proud of that.......has to be an Al Queda plant, or Ahmadinejad, Osama, and Hugo Chavez's gang bang.......we already know this Obamarrhoidal zit worships MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami's shit, and swallows it by the metric ton, hook, line and sinker (now there's a mixed metaphor fer ya).

 

[beowolfe]

Well well well...it's another "let's piss off the American people really good day".

what "American people"? The ones who wouldn't vote for him if he turned water into wine? And it would take 10 years at best for drilling to be of any value to us.

And even then, it's effect would be negligible.

This HORRENDOUS Obamarrhoidal ABOMINATION Jillian somehow manages to make the MOST ILLOGICALLY IDIOTIC COMMENTS CONTINUALLY with an air of insouciance than anyone else on this Forum except maybe RDeanie The Hopeless Weanie.

Note this Political Idiot's comment: "What "American people" ? The ones who wouldn't for him (Jillian's Messiah) if he turned water into wine? "

HTF (HowTheFuck) could the "American people" vote for this MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami if we are like the fucking jews horrified of Hitler even if this asshole PROMISES he'll change water into wine ?!?!?!?

This POLITICAL IDIOT Jillian's next comment: "And even then, its effect would be negligible". This stupid twat is referring to offshore drilling and the need for additional nuclear plants.

Thus, this UBELIEVABLE POLITICAL PSYCHO Jillian downplays America's need to get into an ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY CRASH PROGRAM to boost our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES' ENERGY CONTROL over America by arguing that, in essence, HAVING OUR OWN OIL....plus CRITICALLY NECESSARY Nuclear Plants .........would somehow DECREASE our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES ?!?!?

Doesn't this Obamarrhoidal emesis realize that her brainless comment like that (even if true......which it isn't) would ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE, or at least MINIMIZE into insignificance our chances of EVER achieving ENERGY INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES ?!?!?

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd bet my bottom nickel that this TOXIC POLITICAL BARFBAG, who claims she had a hand in defending the maniacal "CHICAGO 7", and actually proud of that.......has to be an Al Queda plant, or Ahmadinejad, Osama, and Hugo Chavez's gang bang.......we already know this Obamarrhoidal zit worships MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami's shit, and swallows it by the metric ton, hook, line and sinker (now there's a mixed metaphor fer ya).

Another wingnut!!

 

[Citizen]

what "American people"? The ones who wouldn't vote for him if he turned water into wine? And it would take 10 years at best for drilling to be of any value to us.

And even then, it's effect would be negligible.

This HORRENDOUS Obamarrhoidal ABOMINATION Jillian somehow manages to make the MOST ILLOGICALLY IDIOTIC COMMENTS CONTINUALLY with an air of insouciance than anyone else on this Forum except maybe RDeanie The Hopeless Weanie.

Note this Political Idiot's comment: "What "American people" ? The ones who wouldn't for him (Jillian's Messiah) if he turned water into wine? "

HTF (HowTheFuck) could the "American people" vote for this MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami if we are like the fucking jews horrified of Hitler even if this asshole PROMISES he'll change water into wine ?!?!?!?

This POLITICAL IDIOT Jillian's next comment: "And even then, its effect would be negligible". This stupid twat is referring to offshore drilling and the need for additional nuclear plants.

Thus, this UBELIEVABLE POLITICAL PSYCHO Jillian downplays America's need to get into an ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY CRASH PROGRAM to boost our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES' ENERGY CONTROL over America by arguing that, in essence, HAVING OUR OWN OIL....plus CRITICALLY NECESSARY Nuclear Plants .........would somehow DECREASE our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES ?!?!?

Doesn't this Obamarrhoidal emesis realize that her brainless comment like that (even if true......which it isn't) would ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE, or at least MINIMIZE into insignificance our chances of EVER achieving ENERGY INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES ?!?!?

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd bet my bottom nickel that this TOXIC POLITICAL BARFBAG, who claims she had a hand in defending the maniacal "CHICAGO 7", and actually proud of that.......has to be an Al Queda plant, or Ahmadinejad, Osama, and Hugo Chavez's gang bang.......we already know this Obamarrhoidal zit worships MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami's shit, and swallows it by the metric ton, hook, line and sinker (now there's a mixed metaphor fer ya).

Another wingnut!!

Very intellegent reply beowolfe.

 

[uscitizen]

hold on to your hats...the price of gas is about to go through the roof

That was going to happen regardless.

Yep we can't have a "recovery" without higher energy costs.

 

[gautama]

This HORRENDOUS Obamarrhoidal ABOMINATION Jillian somehow manages to make the MOST ILLOGICALLY IDIOTIC COMMENTS CONTINUALLY with an air of insouciance than anyone else on this Forum except maybe RDeanie The Hopeless Weanie.

Note this Political Idiot's comment: "What "American people" ? The ones who wouldn't for him (Jillian's Messiah) if he turned water into wine? "

HTF (HowTheFuck) could the "American people" vote for this MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami if we are like the fucking jews horrified of Hitler even if this asshole PROMISES he'll change water into wine ?!?!?!?

This POLITICAL IDIOT Jillian's next comment: "And even then, its effect would be negligible". This stupid twat is referring to offshore drilling and the need for additional nuclear plants.

Thus, this UBELIEVABLE POLITICAL PSYCHO Jillian downplays America's need to get into an ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY CRASH PROGRAM to boost our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES' ENERGY CONTROL over America by arguing that, in essence, HAVING OUR OWN OIL....plus CRITICALLY NECESSARY Nuclear Plants .........would somehow DECREASE our INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES ?!?!?

Doesn't this Obamarrhoidal emesis realize that her brainless comment like that (even if true......which it isn't) would ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE, or at least MINIMIZE into insignificance our chances of EVER achieving ENERGY INDEPENDENCE from our ENEMIES ?!?!?

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd bet my bottom nickel that this TOXIC POLITICAL BARFBAG, who claims she had a hand in defending the maniacal "CHICAGO 7", and actually proud of that.......has to be an Al Queda plant, or Ahmadinejad, Osama, and Hugo Chavez's gang bang.......we already know this Obamarrhoidal zit worships MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami's shit, and swallows it by the metric ton, hook, line and sinker (now there's a mixed metaphor fer ya).

Another wingnut!!

Very intellegent reply beowolfe.

Predictable unsubstantiated rebuttals from "intellegent" Obamarrhoidal trash

 

[beowolfe]

Another wingnut!!

Very intellegent reply beowolfe.

Predictable unsubstantiated rebuttals from Obamarrhoidal trash

From your post...

HTF (HowTheFuck) could the "American people" vote for this MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami if we are like the fucking jews horrified of Hitler even if this asshole PROMISES he'll change water into wine ?!?!?!?

If you don't want to be labeled as a wingnut, then grow a brain and quit behaving like one. BTW, the validity of the OP has already been rebutted. But if you were not a wingnut, you would have checked other sources before you went ape-chit crazy w/ your response.

 

[gautama]

hold on to your hats...the price of gas is about to go through the roof

Hey there won't be any drilling of any of our own resources--& this congress & administration is also determined not to bill any nuclear power plants either. The only time they speak of it--is when the camera & micro-phone is turned on. Not one single penny in the 787 porkulus bill was dedicated to nuclear power.

Energy independance for this country is just another broken promise.
We still stimulate foreign countries that sell us energy. Nothing new here.

President Obama Announces Money for Nuclear Power Plant Row 2, Seat 4

Where do you guys get your information from? And why is it practically always wrong?

Haven't you learned anything from the MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami's DOUBLE SPEAK ?

The ONLY time this PATHOLOGICAL LIAR gives assurances that he is interested in offshore drilling and additional nuclear plants is when he is FORCED to make a statement on that (as does that Pelosi twat) when their DEEDS indicate the opposite.

Just like the PELOSI con job on "abortion"......she puts on her "sincere" mask and pointedly assures one and all (as she did at the Obami Salami Health Care Dog & Pony Show) that there DEFINITELY WAS NOT THE PRO ABORTION LANGUAGE INVOLVED in that 2000+ monstrosity bill full of double talk crappola.

And, we know how TRUTHFUL and ACCURATE that FUCKING LIE IS !!!!

What is it ? SEVEN additional Dems are yapping that they can't vote for the passage because to them it is CLEAR that ABORTION "IS IN" the verbiage.

 

[gautama]

Very intellegent reply beowolfe.

Predictable unsubstantiated rebuttals from Obamarrhoidal trash

From your post...

HTF (HowTheFuck) could the "American people" vote for this MARXIST Muslim PC Protector Obami Salami if we are like the fucking jews horrified of Hitler even if this asshole PROMISES he'll change water into wine ?!?!?!?

If you don't want to be labeled as a wingnut, then grow a brain and quit behaving like one. BTW, the validity of the OP has already been rebutted. But if you were not a wingnut, you would have checked other sources before you went ape-chit crazy w/ your response.

BTW, being labeled as a "wingnut" by an Obamarrhoidal dumbass isn't anything unpredictable.....as a matter of fact.....it's a badge of CERTIFIED ACCOMPLISHMENT IN EXPOSING OBAMARRHOIDAL BULLSHIT.

And, since when is it wrong to point out again, again, and again.......THE CONSTANT and CONTINUOUS TORRENT OF UNMITIGATED and UNADULTERATED BULLSHIT emanating from the PERPETUAL BULLSHIT APPARATUSES which are the Obamarrhoidal TWITS like you ?????