Pirates who were using the cheap glue.
(source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/presidential-seal-falls-podium-obama-speaks/)
Posted on 12/01/2010 8:31:58 AM PST by markomalley
“Hasn’t a judge overturned this 2x?”
Yeah, but it doesn’t matter. What the regime can’t accomplish legislatively, or in the courts, it will simply do by executive order or agency rules (even w/o public hearing).
...But that Obama sure seems like a nice fella, let’s have some more meetings with him there, Boehner (/sarc)
The incoming Congress better have the guts to just, “ok” drilling as the Executive Branch does not have this authority and this should go to SCOTUS ASAP come Jan 1st.
Someone show me he can do this by fiat.
I shake my head everyday. Yesterday’s confab made me want to throw up
Obama imposes 7-year drilling ban in eastern Gulf of Mexico
By the CNN Wire Staff
December 1, 2010 11:37 a.m. EST
The ban on drilling in the Gulf is a result of the April 20 explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama will not be allowing new drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least seven years, according to a senior administration official.
The ban is being imposed as a result of the April 20 explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf, which killed 11 people and triggered one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
An estimated 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons) of oil gushed into the Gulf before the broken well, 5,000 feet below the surface, was capped.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is scheduled to hold a briefing on the decision at 1:30 p.m. ET Wednesday.
The administration lifted a six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in October.
“There will always be risks associated with deep-water drilling,” Salazar said at the time. But “we have reached a point where we have significantly reduced those risks.”
Salazar argued that the moratorium provided time to make sure similar accidents involving a failed piece of equipment called a blowout preventer wouldn’t occur and that rig operators were prepared to deal with worst-case scenarios if they did happen.
Critics of the ban, including Republican leaders, Gulf state officials and Gulf Coast residents, said it would only hurt oil and gas workers in hard-hit coastal communities, where hundreds of jobs were lost because of the disaster.
Environmental groups and other supporters of the moratorium argued that it was necessary due to a lack of effective regulation of deep-water drilling that allowed the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent spill to occur.
Let the Chinese find the good stuff so that they’ll keep buying our debt with which to fund an establishment of dependency, one that keeps the Slave Party in power forever.
Where are the Gulf states governors? MIA? Hello, SCOTUS???
Pirates who were using the cheap glue.
(source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/presidential-seal-falls-podium-obama-speaks/)
Liberals, and Obama in particular are deliberately trying to artificially drive our energy costs UP to force us to cut consumption, make alterntive energies viable and foster mass transportation.
If you deliver the sodium pentathol to any liberal/enviroweenie/statist/globalist, they will admit it in plain english.
Otherwise, you have to listen and watch carefully for the admission.
How are they basing this claim? On what?
Big “O” will be out of office in 2 years!
I hope the GOP can find their cajones.
“IG report shows Obama WH rewrote Gulf spill report to support moratorium”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624819/posts
Also, PLEASE NOTE...EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO...i.e. off of Florida....there hasn't been any drilling off of Florida..I.E. east of Alabama....ever...this is nothing new...
Because it will be the previous administration's fault...
This is, of course, part of the wacko environmentalists agenda and an attempt to control the energy industry.
A side benefit for 0 is that puts the hurt on his favorite deep red state. Texas.
Well stated. I feel the same way. I just want this crap to end. It's all so depressing.
By turning himself into an American version of Robert Mugabe.
Where does Odumbo think he is going to get his tax revenues to fund his socialist utopia?:
“Oil Industry Taxes: A Cash Cow for Government”
http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr183.pdf
“Indeed, since 1981, when the failed windfall profits tax was first enacted, federal, state, and local governments in the U.S. have collected more in taxes from the oil industry than the industry has earned in actual profits for its shareholders. For example, after adjusting for inflation, the combined net earnings (net of taxes and expenses) for the largest petroleum companies between 1981 and 2008 totaled $1.4 trillion. By contrast, the total amount of taxes collected by U.S. governments from the oil companies topped $1.95 trillion, roughly 40 percent more than the industry’s combined profits. Tax collections exceeded company profits in 23 of the 27 years surveyed.”
Don't miss FormerACLUmember's post #32 on this thread...
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the court overturn Hussein’s drilling ban? Oh wait I forgot, elections have consequences and ‘The Won’ never let silly things like the rule of law slow his America HATING agenda down.
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