Oil drilling ban to be maintained in key areas, sources say

Washington Post ^ | 12.1.10 | Juliet Eilperin

[Skeez]

Obama administration officials will announce Wednesday afternoon they will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as part of the next five-year drilling plan, according to sources briefed on the plan, reversing two key policy changes President Obama announced in late March.

During that announcement--less than a month before the BP oil spill--Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said they would open up the eastern Gulf and parts of the Atlantic, including off the coast of Virginia, to offshore oil and gas exploration.

[Skeez]

[headstamp 2]

More Marxist Madness. The only country in the world that locks up its natural resources.

[Nachum]

Thanks for the heads up Jet Jaguar-

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wait till the campaign contributions come rolling in.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I notice they are becoming brazen enough to actually use the term “Five Year Plan” in their press releases

[Qbert]

Surprise, surprise...

[Rodm]

Two Year Plan: Vote out Obama and the rest of the idiot democrats and rinos

[SC_Pete]

AMD THE UNIONS (SEIU, AFSCME, NEA, ETC) LOCK OUT THE WORKERS. You can’t make this stuff up.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Excuse me, but how the $#%$ does the President have the power to do this? I was dismayed at giving the presidency more power during the Bush administration for exactly this reason: you’ll come to regret it when the next guy is in charge.

And how the #$%^ does the Federal government have this kind of power?

Grrrr.

[RU88]

Like a good Marxist “fellow traveler” he's deferring to the Chicoms and Cubans who are going to drill to their hearts content. I'd absolutely love being a fly on the wall when he tries to strong arm Castro and his thugs for 20 billion after the next spill. They'll laugh him right out of the room. Any one who wants a good stock tip buy companies in the business of producing blood pressure medicine. This clown has collectively raised the blood pressure of most of the tax paying world with his idiocy.

[DManA]

You can drill as long as you can prove there’s no oil there.

[mountainlion]

Salidczar is the guy that put Colorado into financial disaster by shutting down drilling. There does not seem to be an oil project that he does not like.

[Spitzensparkin1]

Lets see now, Demoncrap governors (NY/NJ) first banned the planned off shore exploration and drilling in 1982... and now that other states (FL)are re-thinking the revenues lost to this misguided policy and are more open to developing these needed resources, the white hut is now doing so... seems it has become a lot more than a five year plan. More like perpetual.

[a fool in paradise]

HE can only make such policy for the next TWO years. His executive orders mean nothing to subsequent administrations.

President Obama’s first acts were to repeal a bunch of Bush executive orders.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Did Crist perform a special favor on Barry?

[Spitzensparkin1]

Saladczar better watch his back, Bill Richardson (now ex- gov NM)is out of work! He shut it down in NM leaving the state broke and in debt with massive “Bills”. But we do have a space port to nowhere.

[penelopesire]

The comments at the WP site are running 10 to 1 slamming our tyrant prez. The republican leadership should jump on this issue pronto!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!

[hosepipe]

As a side issue.. the largest copper and gold find ever found has been found in Alaska.. but the experimentalists have it ham-stringed.. (Pebble Mine)..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Mine

[b4its2late]

Yeah, but we’ll let other countries drill there though.

[texmexis best]

Obama sez:

ICH BIN ONE TERMER!