Obama to Open Some Areas for Offshore Drilling – Updated with Video
ByHmmmm, what to make of this?
The New York Times: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.
The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates but anger some residents of affected states and many environmental organizations — would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean.
Under the plan, the coastline from New Jersey northward would remain closed to all oil and gas activity. So would the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to the Canadian border.
I’m thinking he’ll allow the oil companies to do the heavy lifting before he swoops in and nationalizes the industry. That, and he’s trying to get moderates to go along with cap and tax.
Update: I should also have pointed out that any drilling that may occur won’t happen for years. So this move is largely symbolic.
Here’s Obama in 2008 talking about offshore drilling.
Via the Washington Times, Rep. Mike Pence released the following statement:
“This Administration’s energy plan is simple: increase the cost of energy on every family in America and trade American jobs overseas at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work.”
“As usual the devil is in the details. Only in Washington, D.C., can you ban more areas to oil and gas exploration than you open up, delay the date of your new leases and claim you’re going to increase production.”
“The President’s announcement today is a smokescreen. It will almost certainly delay any new offshore exploration until at least 2012 and include only a fraction of the offshore resources that the previous Administration included in its plan.
“Unfortunately, this is yet another feeble attempt to gain votes for the President’s national energy tax bill that is languishing in the Senate. At the end of the day this Administration’s energy plan is simple: increase the cost of energy on every family in America and trade American jobs oversees at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work.”
Moral of the story: Don’t believe anything this man says. He lies!
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This is a political move. They have closed the areas that are most coveted to offshore drilling and they are opening up areas that the oil companies have no desire to drill in.
Just a week or so ago Ken Salazar let slip that Obama was going with a 3 year moratorium on offshore drilling all together. Since he has had a change of heart because it was part of his campaign pledge to allow for drilling.
Just like out west. Some of the greatest areas for oil are under the Rockies. The problem is that the costs would be staggering and the water needs would simply bar most drilling. So guess where most of the new leases that include acreage is included in bragging about how much land is available for drilling but them DAYUM oil companies dont want to drill cause it will rise the price of gas.
Yep in the rockies where the costs are prohibitive even if they did discover Oil. Not only finding it would be expensive but bringing it to market would be equally so. The price of Oil would need to be about 200 dollars per barrel and holding steady for it to be even remotely profitable for the oil companies.
Do not be fooled by anything this president does when it comes to Energy. He is a progressive and progressives hate the oil and gas industry. They are greeniacs. That is why he has proposed building nukes. He knows that nukes will be tied up in federal courts for years by his own people while he himself can continue appearing to be a moderate, centrist president. Its the Alinsky trick. Tell them anything to get your way.
You are exactly right. The other side of this phoney proposal is that he will use it in his Crap and Tax plot against us by saying that he is open to all kinds of energy development, along with atomic power, which now takes over 10 years to make due to all the bureaucratic blocks to get over.
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you are right – they want to buy votes from the usual
Republican suspects who are so eager to ‘reach across
the aisle’. Every little thing they do betrays an ulterior
motive. Heck, we could get enuf hot air from Pelosi and
Boxer and Feinstein and Schumer to meet America’s energy
needs for a century. We should drill ONLY off the California
coast – maybe it will break off from the USA and slide away
– so we don’t have to throw them out !
T Boone Pickens says there is no or very little oil off the coast of Va. Obuma lies and lies this is like throwing your dog a bone and finding out it’s rubber tell buma to go suck an egg.
Not only does Obamaramadingdong have big ears, he also has a forked tongue.
Ugh!
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It’s a scam!
They actually RESTRICT more areas from drilling.
They open areas for exploration (vs production)that we are od little interest to oil companies.
The repeat a now famous quote:
“You Lie!”
CFC’s caused global warming and we stopped making them on 1-1-1996. This was discovered and reported 12-21-2009 amid health care furor. Online Journal of Physics 12-21-2009. CFC levels are dropping and so is average global temperature and they know it. That’s why climategate..”hide the decline” dumped raw data. They want to get this through fast before people find out. Google Qing-Bin Lu the professor of physics and astronomy who discover these facts quite accidently. Check it out and pass it on to all you can. I am. 50 more years of cooling predicted! Check it out…pass it on before they do something stupid that would cost many jobs for nothing.
DOES ANYONE BELIEVE OBAMA OR ANYTHING ELSE THE DEMS SAY.
Only those still drinking the Kool Aid, and those not paying attention.