Posted on 2/5/2009, 5:05:05 PM by luv2ndamend
WASHINGTON – In a clear signal that the Obama administration is shifting the government’s approach to energy exploration on public lands, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday canceled oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of federal land that opponents said would blight Utah’s scenic southeastern corner.
Salazar’s decision – which reverses the Bush administration’s December move to allow drilling on about 130,000 acres near pristine areas such as Nine Mile Canyon, Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument – is one of a series of steps that the administration and congressional Democrats are planning to take to reshape federal regulation of drilling, mining, lumbering and other resource tapping activities, both on American soil and offshore.
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Doncha just love how our new President is doing everythign he can to help the economy?
(sarcasm)
Yup, jobs lost, increased fuel costs. Couple this with the normal dhimmi dimbulb approach to “warming” and this promises to be interesting.
I really hope that the DC dhimmis are prepared for the upcoming tar and feather party.
I’ll buy the pitchforks!
0 is a busybody, busy at forcing people out of REAL work so that they will beg he and the government for $$$. Communism 101.
Way to destabilize the economy, Obama. Interfering with contracts on this scale is sure to jumpstart the economy. But what about all those Union oilworkers?
My mental picture is that of Obama furtively nodding to Chavez, Putin, and of course, his arab buddies.
Do you ever wear that anywhere? LOL
On 2nd thought....we need one that says...the 2nd Amendment....protecting American’s from politicians since...1791?
Not yet! I’m gonna buy me one! They’re on Glenn Beck’s site. ;D
Wonder who this was pay off to? It surely was not done for the good of the country.
I guess this action will keep that low rate locked in until..... 1:30 this afternoon if we're lucky.
Higher energy prices to follow. This guy is a fricking idiot. He may be the first president to get recalled.
Thanks, I will be ordering one for my husband and myself.
Well THANK GOD! His policy of tire inflation will keep energy prices down!
We are truly blessed to have him in office...
I don’t know about you guys, but that was pretty sarcastic. I could always pour it on thicker if that wasn’t enough?
Losing jobs, higher gas costs.
This president and his cabinet really care about us, don’t they? </sarc off
I laugh when they say that Alaska won’t produce anything for 10 years...and then they reset the clock with cr** like this.
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