Obama set to extend offshore drilling ban (Get ready for higher prices)

MSNBC ^ | 5/27/2010 | msnbc

[tobyhill]

Escalating his administration's response to the disastrous Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama plans to announce Thursday that a moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling permits will be continued for six months while a presidential commission investigates, a White House aide said.

Controversial lease sales off the coast of Alaska will be delayed pending the results of the commission's investigation, and lease sales planned in the Western Gulf and off the coast of Virginia will be canceled, the aide said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a midday Obama news conference.

Those steps, along with new oversight and safety standards, are the results of a 30-day safety review of offshore drilling conducted by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at Obama's direction. Salazar briefed Obama on its conclusions Wednesday night in the Oval Office, the aide said.

[A. Morgan]

Zero is a CLOWN!

[Tarpon]

Escalating his administration's response to the disastrous Gulf oil spill

And isn't this the real problem with our jug-eared jackarsey? It's all he knows, the answer to everything, more spending, taxes and regulations.

Meanwhile, back at regulations central, what you got on the porn-tube today?

Next time America look for someone with experience and brains. We don't need anymore Styrofoam Greek temples and teleprompter seances -- Teleprompter readers are so leftover 90s technology.

Hey can Styrofoam be used for oil cleanup on the beach?

[tobyhill]

Obama has no clue what he's doing and since he's already being pummeled by almost all sides he will now try to pander to the idiot Greenies.

[Venturer]

And of course the rest of he world will stop drilling in the oceans also.

This guy isnt smart enough to be where he is.

Who is behind him?

[freebird5850]

Who is behind him? the Saudis and the evil Dims that want to destroy the Constitution and make the US a Marxist state.

[philled]

I think this is foolish and we need to drill everywhere we can. But, this oil spill seems to have an even more obvious strategy arising from it. Maybe I’m looking at this too simply, but part of the problem with the Deepwater Horizon spill was it was at about 5000 ft underwater. Why not drill above ground in ANWR? If there is a problem, you can get to it- you don’t need to make your task even harder by having a mile of water in the way.