While we were all distracted by the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling, the Obama administration released its final plan for allowing drilling and exploration for oil. I’m sure they planned it that way, otherwise they would have released it on a Friday afternoon when they typically dump bad news on the public. The Institute for Energy Research’s Senior Vice President Dan Kish released a statement responding the to news.
“President Obama’s offshore charade continues today with the formal announcement of the 2012-2017 leasing plan for the outer continental shelf. With this plan, the administration reinstitutes the 27 year moratorium that was lifted in 2008, and turns its back on potentially enormous energy resources that could provide jobs and energy security for America. For more than three years, the Obama administration has consistently reversed bipartisan efforts to open America’s vast offshore resources for energy development.
“The president has cancelled lease sales, delayed others, and imposed a unilateral executive embargo on the oil resources that our most promising public lands could provide. With 98 percent of the U.S. offshore currently unleased for energy exploration, Secretary Salazar has finalized this plan to continue the administration’s war against affordable energy. In the end, Americans will pay more for the energy they need.
“While President Obama and Interior Secretary Salazar claim an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy, today’s announced plan continues to give the American people access to a mere fraction of the offshore resources they own. If not for this president and his policies, Americans could access more than 200 years of oil supply under our feet and off our shores.
“Millions of Americans are still looking for jobs. The Gulf Coast economy has yet to recover from President Obama’s moratorium on offshore drilling. President Obama has signaled today that he has no regard for our energy future, nor the jobs that a sensible, long-term plan for offshore development would create.”
I suppose it could be worse, I mean, he could have leased those areas to China and Venezuela. I guess he’s saving that for a second term.
Update: House Energy Committee Chairman Fred Upton released the following statement:
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement on President Obama’s 2012-2017 offshore leasing plan that will block 85 percent of America’s offshore areas from production.
“The U.S. is home to some of the largest energy reserves in the world, yet today the Obama administration announced it will lock away the vast majority of these resources for another five years. This plan essentially reinstates the offshore drilling ban that was lifted in 2008. The president’s plan is a step backwards, opening no new areas for energy leasing and only further delaying domestic production projects. While the president claims to support ‘all of the above,’ his policies seem more accurately described as advancing ‘nothing from below.’
“While we have seen some respite from rising gasoline prices, Americans are still paying almost double at the pump what they were when President Obama was inaugurated, and we are still just one natural disaster or foreign crisis away from a major supply disruption that could send prices soaring. To stabilize prices, we need a visionary, long-term supply solution. Earlier this month, the House passed a proposal with bipartisan support to remove the president’s barriers to American energy production and job creation. Today’s announcement underscores the urgent need for these commonsense reforms.”
Update: Linked by WyBlog – thanks!
is today friday the thirteenth or something ? the bad news never stops.
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I doubt the post I just put up is going to do anything to make you feel better.
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[...] By Lonely Conservative No comments yetWhile researching the Obama administration’s release of final rules regarding drilling (and restoring an old moratorium) I came across this post at the Institute for Energy Research [...]
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I just saw a comment on hufpo that Obama made 3 TRADE DEALS that make NAFTA look like childs play. Just to add to the woes. Has anybody seen anything on that ? It was a comment on a blurb by your friend and mine – Michael Moore – on Roberts. Most of the commenters expose how they think – just like Moore. I need to take a shower after reading some of that … or maybe have a drink.
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To quote Sarah Palin, “Obama lies, freedom dies!”
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This has become a rather repetitive behavior that’s now a pattern. I’m now sure that The Regime keeps a list of “hot topic”, unpopular edicts that they selectively jam through when the Nation is distracted by another one of their heinous and contemptuous acts that gets on the front burner.
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“All of the above” energy strategy? Try “none of the above”. Let’s move November to next month and get rid of these clowns.
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The “All of the above” program being proposed by the Obama administration means fossil fuel and coal are at the bottom of priorities for future energy development. Alternative fuels will continue to be promoted and subsidized with taxpayers’ money unless we make changes with our elected representatives in Washington allowing this travesty to continue unchecked.
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These bastards are traitors..plain and simple. This coming election will see the conservatives come out to vote in the 10′s of millions and the slaughter will be historic. Conservatives like me are gaining strength and come November Obi-One is going to feel like an Aztec Junkie from Dogshit, Nebraska. The look on his and Moochies face will be priceless
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BO gave Russia, gratis, four deepwater drilling tracts off Florida in 2009. In 2012, SoS Hillary Clinton, without Congressional or Alaskan authorization, redrew the boundary of eight Alaskan Islands, gratis, for Russia to develop the maritime and land resources. She also gave Mexico access to 1.5 million acres along our maritime boundary in the Gulf to develop resources, without Congressional authorization, aided by U.S. tax dollars and technology. BO gave Brazil $10 billion access to the U.S. Ex-Im Bank for your tax dollars to develop their technology to use for development of mineral, gas and oil resources. India and South Africa are also using U.S. tax dollars and technology for development. Canadian contracts were awarded to China from the Keystone project BO rejected so their ships will be floating around the Pacific Coastline. BO and SoS Clinton have given 21 waivers to countries exempting them from Iranian sanctions to obtain oil. BO is severely restricting our energy while funding BRIICS countries to undermine the sovereignty of America.
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[...] could get a 6-3 vote upholding ObamaCARE. But overlooked in ignored by the media last week was the Obama regime reinstating a 27 year offshore oil drilling moratorium. I guess Obama figures that oil prices have dropped enough because of the lousy economy. This is [...]
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