Obama's Drilling Deception- Dems Continue to Restrict New Energy Development (Updated)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 6:11 AM
In 2009 Democrats scrapped oil and gas leases in Utah, permanently banned drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and nixed offshore drilling.
For decades Democrats have blocked efforts to responsibly develop this nation’s energy resources, transforming vast areas of opportunity into “The No Zone.”
A recent study examined the cost of these democratic policies of not drilling and developing domestic oil reserves. The SAIC Corporation discovered that democrats will cost the US $2.36 Trillion through 2029.
Earlier this month Obama’s Secretary of Energy announced a three-year offshore drilling ban so yesterday’s announcement that Obama would allow drilling in coastal waters came as a shock. But, despite the head fake, the Obama Administration is still hostile to oil development and nuclear power.
GOP.gov released this statement following Obama’s announcement that he is resetting the clock for energy exploration in US coastal waters.
Despite today’s announcement that the Obama Administration may allow some new OCS leases in 2012, it is clear that the Administration and Democrat Congress have and continue to promote public policies that restrict American energy exploration and raise gas prices.
- Obama Moratorium: The Obama Administration plan would discard the 2010-2015 Outer Continental Shelf lease plan that had been set in motion by the previous Administration and delay the implementation of their new plan until 2012. This new two-year “Obama Moratorium” (2010-2012) would almost certainly delay any new exploration in areas previously under moratoria until after the president’s entire term. The president’s plan would then keep several areas off limits, including the Pacific coast from Mexico to Canada, the Atlantic coast north of Delaware, parts of Alaska, and the most promising areas of the Gulf of Mexico.Against the will of the American people and Congress, the Administration is essentially unilaterally reinstating the drilling ban for an additional two years, signaling to markets that supply will not expand, thus raising prices. Earlier this month, Natural Resources Ranking Member Doc Hastings (R-WA) and 87 other House Republicans sent a letter to Interior Secretary Salazar urging the Administration to implement the 2010-2015 leasing plan. The letter also outlined the cost of inaction-these years of delay will leave Americans unemployed, lose billions of dollars in revenues and create a greater dependence on unstable foreign sources of oil and gas that puts U.S. national security at risk.
Stalling and blockading of new energy production endangers tens of thousands of existing jobs and prevents the creation of new jobs that would help lower the unemployment rate. Opening new areas to drilling would be a no-cost stimulus for the U.S. economy.
- New Gas Tax: Making matters worse, the Democrat Congress is unfathomably considering a new gas tax. Press reports suggest that the Kerry-Lieberman-Graham climate bill under construction in the Senate may impose a “carbon tax” on motor fuels such as gasoline. This gas tax would target all consumers (especially rural Americans who travel further for work) and result in an increase in air travel, cargo costs, and significantly impact fuel-dependent industries such as trucking.
Michelle Malkin has more on Obama’s drilling deception.
UPDATE: Mark Levin weighs in on Obama’s sudden flip adding, “Today’s announcement won’t produce a drop of oil.”
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 72 Comments
Aitch748 commented:
If Obama wasn’t destroying things on purpose, he’d get something right once in a while, if only by accident.
Greg commented:
Google …cold facts on global warming… and you will find the most comprehensive discussion on the Global warming technology state that I have read to date. It points out well the hazards of relating average temperatue to co2 concentration. If the US can design nuclear triggers, nano electronics, and cell phones it ought to do a better job evaluating the science of global warming which is controlled today by econmists and pesimists. This needs to be done before changing the nature of life as we know it. The referenced discussion suggest that the relationship is small to the extent that unfettered technology eveloution over the next 200 years will more than compensate for the effect on global temperature. Should Lindsey Graham initiate a bill for tax and trade without demostrating that he has investigated the science, I will donate a thousand dollars to his opponent in both his next primary and general election.
daryl commented:
I think maybe BracckO has finally recognized the fact that his chances of reelection are slim to none and is trying to at least mollify the few that still believe any word that comes out of his mouth. When he loses Harry’s and Nancy’s “leadership?” in the fall, he’s left to his own not so capable devices and a momentum which is all down hill now and he’s losing support daily.
That’s brought a distinctive and very notable sort of bellowing to his so called eloquence of speech. Kind of like when Clinton began to sound once he was cornered and could no longer lie his way out of some of the predicaments he found himself in and the media could no longer ignore.
So now he wants to drill everywhere and give every state all of the coal and nuclear plants they need. He’s trying to smoke those irate voters off his a$$ until he can do better with his base. Don’t buy a word of it. He’s still lieing through his teeth. Any way it’s too little, too late even if you do believe him. I, for one, ain’t buying and neither should anyone else.
Valerie commented:
These bans, of course, are supposed to help defend us against “human-caused global warming.”
The San Diego Union-Tribune keeps publishing articles about how terrible “global warming” is, and how we have to combat it. That’s in part because the Scripps research institutes are still putting out stories to that effect. They never heard of climategate, or the raw data that was destroyed.
So, where is the population growth, business growth and recovery in this country? Well, there’s DC, which you’d expect when the government is rapidly expanding and ….
http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/29/texas-cities-growth-opinions-columnists-joel-kotkin.html
Texas. Not one, but several cities in Texas have the top growth right now. Texas. The story goes that the Devil was given a choice between Hell and Texas, and chose Hell because it was cooler.
If Global Warming is such a disaster, why are people voting with their feet, and moving to Texas? Could it be that we are perfectly capable of handling something more that three tenths of a degree increase in average temperature (with lots of fudging to get that far) over a decade?
Militant Conservative commented:
Malignant Narcissist, cannot trust him. He’s pathological.
Don B commented:
Time for a constitutional convention before we do not recognize our country. We are turning into the USSA (United Socialist States of America)! We must restore States rights and individual freedoms.
bill-tb commented:
I wonder when people will figure out the whole energy independence thing is just like the AGW scam, a big Democrat lie?
According to the EIA, the USA has the largest fossil fuel reserves of any country on the planet … a whole lot bigger than Saudi Arabia.
Coal to liquids technology, of which the USA has about 30% of the world’s coal supply, ran the entire WWII German war machine, using technology invented in the 1920s. Now China is building coal to liquids refineries as fast as they can … Imagine that.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration lies about everything.
Chisum commented:
You know what beats oil drilling? Inflating your tires
http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/31/you-know-what-beats-oil-drilling-inflating-your-tires/
olm commented:
Chisum, I laughed.
Sojourner commented:
.. Lame Cherry: ‘Too Obama to be True”..indeed
(snip)
Yes Bearick and his derrick are literally trying to bribe Republicans with offshore oil drilling, so Obama can bring back Al Gore fraud climate change, which is nothing but trillions more in taxes and siphoning money which America does not have out of the economy.
When in doubt, never doubt Barack Obama to break the law of America again and again, in reverting to his 3rd world heritage of bribes, bribery and Obamary……..acting as the enticing nipple for the victim to suckle upon.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/
averagemelon commented:
Was there not legislation enacted that enable the federal government to control and regulate all WATER in the US? Might he be doing this to get the oil companies to set up drilling and then swipe all their oil profits?
I notice they will not let any oil drilling on land.
Joanne commented:
It is all in the delivery….
Mike Spence states quoted from Michelle Malkin’s blog -
““As usual the devil is in the details. Only in Washington, D.C., can you ban more areas to oil and gas exploration than you open up, delay the date of your new leases and claim you’re going to increase production.”
Unbelievable….Obama just can’t tell the truth – it must be against his religion.
Chisum commented:
http://twitter.com/knifework/status/11375788847
Dave commented:
Beware, this is another attempt to create a crisis and before you know it More of Our freedoms will be limited or taken away.
The only thing congress is good at is creating crisis’s!
They are immune to prosecution for the total destruction of our constitution and country!
It’s obvious they don’t care because they don’t read the legislation!
Vote every last one of them out!
archer52 commented:
Madness. It is madness we let them continue to regulate us into a third world nation.
I hope in November we can put to whack on them, but I’m not holding my breath. I think they’ll steal as many close elections and may some not so close if they can.
I mean who will catch them? Who will enforce it? What can we do? In Ohio they already tested the waters.
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/03/29/stealing-the-election-democrats-in-ohio-tune-up-for-november/
Like I’ve said, now that the tough vote is over, the one that will end some of their careers, the leftist politician is going to act like a Japanese soldier stranded on a Pacific island. They’ll do the only thing left to them- Charge and take as many of us with them as they can.
squeaky commented:
after being around awhile – who would’ve guessed that the guy warning us about big brother would end up being the big brother…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_srFu5slZU
chuck in st paul commented:
I just cannot fathom the desire to beggar the country. When the lights and heat start going out, what then? All this ‘green energy’ nonsense is nowhere able to take up the slack. Not now, not ever.
The entire economy of the modern Western world is based on plenty of inexpensive energy. How does turning us into starving serfs benefit anyone in this country?
I’m telling you this guy is the sockpuppet of foreign interests. (can you say “Georg Soros”?)
Gary Gross commented:
I wrote here that this ‘proposal’ is really the Democrats’ attempt at bait & switch to garner Republican votes for Cap & Tax.
curiousguy commented:
This is just a bait & switch by Obama to get Lindsay Graham (who is playing the role of Maverick McCain while McCain makes believe he is a conservative so he can get re-elected) to get all bi-partisan. Can’t you just hear Lindsay in his best “Deliverance” dialect just gushing over Obama’s “giant step in the right direction on drilling”…and then voting for cap & tax? And then Obama thanks him by telling the Energy Dept. to allow exploration…but no real drilling.
Also, the issue is not just drilling…it is refining. It’s been 30 years since a new refinery has been licensed in the US. Let’s see if Obama changes this. Not.
Ozwitch commented:
I think he’s trying to give political cover to a bunch of RINOs in order to get them to vote for C&T. No one in their right minds would believe he wants to open up drilling. Therefore this is an entirely political move.
But we could get lucky. If Repubs are smart enough to see through the rhetoric and the Dem base are stupid enough to fall for it and get all riled up, it could end up being a win.
Finncrisp commented:
Liar is as Liar does. The man is so “transparent” in his lies that what is really unbelievable is how slow on the uptake the mainstream media is on this stuff. Connecting the dots for five year olds – and even that is too tough…
There is not a fact about this man that cannot be discovered with even casual effort.
Opaobie commented:
Now, Lucy, you aren’t gonna pull the football away again, are you?
Blue Collar Todd commented:
As someone who works at an oil refinery, I am highly skeptical of this. We now know that we must consider what is lurking underneath Obama’s policy initiatives. I wonder how much control this “energy policy” will be handed over to the Administration? I also think Liberal are faking outrage on this to give Obama cover. Remember, Socialist Maxine Waters admitted to wanting to take over the oil industry.
Opaobie commented:
The EPA and the Department of Energy are already giving the “wink, wink, nod, nod” to the environmentalists to file lawsuits, and they will work together to drag the process out for years. It is a poorly designed “sop” to the Republicans to gain support for Cap and Tax and give the RINOs cover with their base for cooperating. It is also a trap. “Hey, I gave them a concession, but they still don’t want to cooperate”…meanwhile the Obama goons just upped the CAFE mileage requirements for automobiles and trucks to ridiculous levels. NEVER TRUST OBAMA. NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT. NEVER…! Keep that image of Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football in your mind every time they make a promise.
Chisum commented:
Drill, ‘Bama, Drill?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/03/025970.php
Joanne commented:
#15 – sorry, quote was from Rep. Mike Pence, not Spence.