Top Oil Rig Suppliers to Obama: Your Response to Gulf Oil Spill Is Unreasonable, Unwarranted, Unfair & Unlawful (Video)

They’re mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore…
The Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA), put together the following video to explain how the de facto moratorium against offshore drilling is killing the American economy and driving up oil and gas prices. OMSA represents the companies that provide supplies and services to the oil rigs in the Gulf. They are really hurting, as they watch drill equipment leave the Gulf instead of waiting out the drilling moratorium.

Here is OMSA’s Open Letter to Barack Obama:

February 17, 2011

The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

On behalf of the tens of thousands of offshore marine service employees and their families, we are writing to protest your war on domestic energy exploration and development and its devastating impact on Americans. Lift your de facto moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Let Americans get back to work. We’ve suffered enough.

Your response to the Gulf oil spill has been unreasonable, unwarranted, unfair, and unlawful. Other industries have collaborated with government to tighten safety measures and implement improvements following tragic accidents, but you simply shut down every deepwater drilling operator in the Gulf of Mexico. When a federal judge pronounced your moratorium was unjustified-and later found you in contempt of the injunction-you simply ignored the court’s ruling as if you were above the law.

For nearly a year, you have defied a court order prohibiting you from interfering in the lawful production of energy off the Gulf Coast. You are not issuing deepwater drilling permits and you have been indecisive on the remedies that would satisfy you. For nearly a year, you’ve maintained your de facto moratorium, which is shutting down new energy production in the Gulf.

For well over a year now, you’ve told Americans quite the opposite-that your policies will create jobs, lower energy costs and make us less dependent on foreign oil. You’ve told Americans that you’ve lifted the moratorium, when the facts show otherwise. Americans know a moratorium when they see one. Isn’t it time you started telling the truth?

While your disregard for the rule of law may placate environmental activists and the government-subsidized corporations clambering for alternative energy giveaways, the vast majority of Americans will only suffer the burden of your policies. Most Americans can’t afford to pay $4 for a gallon of gasoline or see their home heating bills skyrocket. They need jobs-they don’t want to be more beholden to those unstable and hostile regimes that your actions are ensuring will supply America’s energy.

Before your moratorium, more than 50,000 oil wells were drilled safely in the Gulf of Mexico. The fact that we earn an honest living serving those operations should in no way suggest that we aren’t concerned with the safety of our colleagues or the health of the Gulf. After all, thousands of us live here-we fish here, we shrimp here, and our children swim here. No one wants to pollute our beaches, put Americans out of work, or spend billions of dollars to clean up a spill. It’s in everyone’s best interests to drill safely.

Mr. President, your deliberate actions to strangle domestic energy production are putting people out of work, raising the price of fuel and weakening our national security. Your political agenda does not supersede American law.

Again, we remind you that Americans have suffered enough. Lift your de facto moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf and let Americans get back to work.

Signed by several top leaders in top offshore drilling

#1 March 22, 2011 at 2:17 pm
ebayer commented:

If they didn’t have to please the eco-terrorists,they could drill in shallower water or onshore,where spills could be contained immediately.

But nooooooo,they’re forced to drill in deep water.
#2 March 22, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Kate commented:

Well said, but it won’t make any difference. He just doesn’t care. He wants to run up the cost of fuel so we can’t afford it and thereby use less. How he expects people to be able to afford to get to work, especially in rural areas, is above his pay grade.
#3 March 22, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Big L commented:

too long and whiny. It will be dropped in the waste basket.
I ‘d liketo see them lift bans, defacto or de jure ,on nat gas and shale, too. Not to do so when we need the jobs and the product, is like an act of war against the rest of us.
The Environment can take care of itself for a while . Heck I’d like to se all enviro laws stayed for about 7 yrs and rolled back to ’79 when the Jimmah was in. We all breathed ok then.
and why should we export care for the enviroment to the BRIC countries which won’t do a good job managing the protection and some of those countries will ignore the whole thing.
Maybe put the oil/ nat gas exploration and production into the Dept of Defense as it is a defense issue.
#4 March 22, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Annas commented:

It is NOT too long and whiny! It is the absolute truth! Who is going to enforce our laws? Is Obama and his regime just free to do whatever they want with no fear of retribution? What is happening to our country that a regime like this can just do what they want, disregard our laws and keep doing destructive things? We know he wants to make gas so high we cant afford it and will stop driving. ANY alternative fuels are years down the road. This is insanity!
#5 March 22, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Rock commented:

Kate, his vision for America is for most of the population to live in the cities where they are far easier to control, take control of the most of the land and its resources, while forcing the lie of a Socialist Utopia down our throats. That’s just the way he rolls.
#6 March 22, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Muffin commented:

This is the best case for IMPEACHMENT thus far. And there have been many good ones. Let’s do it. Held in contempt? Doesn’t an arrest warrant usually follow that?
#7 March 22, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Ginger commented:

It is also why he wants the fast rail trains to transport workers back and forth to where the communist want us to live and work. Get a paycheck forget that!

Wake up America
#8 March 22, 2011 at 2:50 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

obama would rather we be dependent on oil from countries that are controlled by the muslims. oil is why everyone in the world is beholden to the muslims and tolerate the tyranny they are trying to spread throughout the world. take away the power the muslims get from oil and nobody, i mean nobody puts up with them.
#9 March 22, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Alana commented:

I thought it was a good letter, and succinct.

Too long and whiny? What do you want, a telegram?
#10 March 22, 2011 at 2:55 pm
BuddyG commented:

Part of 0bama’s plan in which “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket”.
#11 March 22, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Neil Sorsky commented:

Oilbama say: “Drill as I say, not as I drill!”
#12 March 22, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Bobman commented:

Obama wants it just the way it is. He even intends to make it worse to teach us greedy members of the proletariat how selfish and foolish we are.

Why haven’t we heard anyone in the liberal media touch this story with a 10 foot pole?

Answer: Because they don’t want to alert the people to what is actually going on. This issue, once fully exposed, will have an explosive affect on Obama’s re-election campaign.
#13 March 22, 2011 at 3:15 pm
BuddyG commented:

Alana, ya can’t send telegrams anymore.

They’re history. And so are Black & White TVs, Rabbit Ear TV Antennas, Changing the TV channel by turning a dial, End of broadcast day with National Anthem followed by the color bar pattern, Betamax, VHS, Albums, 45s, 8-Track Tapes, Film Cameras, Flash cubes, Typewriters, Mimeographs, Paper Maps, Hand Written Checks, Hand Written Letters, Lick-n-stick Postage Stamps, Scoring bowling games with paper & pencil, Subway Tokens, Cash, Brown Paper Bags at the grocery store, Non-Disposable Razors, Soda in glass bottles, Stove Top Pop Corn, Mercurochrome, Non-Parentally Coordinated Playdates, Real Spare Tires, Locking/Unlocking car doors with a metal key, Manual roll down car windows,
Pluto the 9th planet, Hurricanes with only female names, The Soviet Union, The Berlin Wall,
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Keeping your shoes on at airport security, Travel Agents, Rotary dial phones, The phone in the kitchen with a really long cord that always got tangled, The expression “dropping a dime”, Pay Phones, Phone Books, Phone numbers that start with letters, Pager Beepers, and Dial-Up Modems.
#14 March 22, 2011 at 3:17 pm
kansas commented:

No drilling here. What’s wrong with you? Get gas prices way up, limit supply, then drain the strategic reserve. Break us with a third war. Then Obama will have the US on its knees.
#15 March 22, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Lisa G in NZ commented:

@tommy #8 is on to it…

Hey Gulf drilling guys, didn’t you see the “news” this week? Urkel is promoting drilling… IN BRAZIL and is happy as a lap dog to get in line to buy Petrobas oil products

geeeeez, where ya’ll been
#16 March 22, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Aitch748 commented:

As if his moratorium here in the U.S. wasn’t enough, Obama seems to want the U.S. to be the biggest customer of Brazil’s oil industry. That’s right, he’s trying to crush the oil industry in this country while boosting the same industry in Brazil.

There just comes a point when you can no longer truly believe that stupidity and incompetence are the reasons for what this man and his administration are doing.
#17 March 22, 2011 at 3:27 pm
jomojava the infidel commented:

Aitch748 #16:

There just comes a point when you can no longer truly believe that stupidity and incompetence are the reasons for what this man and his administration are doing.

Many of us passed that point a long time ago. al-Bama is doing what he is doing with intent.
#18 March 22, 2011 at 3:28 pm
kate commented:

Rock, I am afraid you are right. Unfortunately for Obama, the US might be a little too vast for him to accomplish that. Plus, we’ll go down fighting! 2012 can’t get here soon enough for me.
#19 March 22, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Stuart commented:

Buddy G # 13 I liked your list.
Now contemplate how much fun we’re going to have If the NoKs or the Muzzies blow off a 100 kiloton, oh say about 250 miles above Nebraska. Or better yet, more than one.

My powder is not only dry, but I know how to make my own as well. And yes, I do own a flintlock.
#20 March 22, 2011 at 3:37 pm
aprilnovember811 commented:

I’ll bet he chuckles when he gets these letters addressed Dear Mr. President. He’s a fraud. He’s laughing in the faces of everyone because he’s being allowed to get away with it. Very sad.
#21 March 22, 2011 at 3:38 pm
BuddyG commented:

#19 Stuart

My teen daugher has never used a payphone.

I’m getting freakin’ old. Sigh . . .
#22 March 22, 2011 at 3:41 pm
aprilnovember811 commented:

Why in God’s name is this man not being arrested? Kenyan born/Indonesian citizen sending troops to Libya. He’s “Destroying her miserable house from within.” ~Al Queada

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
by:
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#23 March 22, 2011 at 3:51 pm
StrangernFiction commented:

There just comes a point when you can no longer truly believe that stupidity and incompetence are the reasons for what this man and his administration are doing.

Welcome to the club.
#24 March 22, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Andrea Shea King commented:

Nice letter, but where’s the “OR ELSE!” ?

That seems to be the problem. No one is telling this ba$tard what they’re gonna do about it if he doesn’t change the situation.

Carrot? Meet stick. Someone’s gotta do it. Otherwise, he lights up another butt, takes a puff, and laughs…

The Radio Patriot
#26 March 22, 2011 at 5:31 pm
cheeflo commented:

#10 BuddyG — don’t forget, he also wants to bankrupt coal-producers.
#27 March 22, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Ginger commented:

Someone’s gotta do it. Otherwise, he lights up another butt, takes a puff, and laughs…

But…Remember “He who laughs last laughs the longest.”
#29 March 22, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Redlite commented:

Check out The American Thinker Blog Article “Anyone connect the Petro-Dots. The One is down in Brazil actively helping the Brazilian’s to drill of of their coast. The Us EX-IM bank has loaned them $2 BILLION to drill for oil. Soros has invested $8ooM in Petrobas, the Brazilian oil company. And O wants to buy the oil from them!

The unemployment rate in North Dakota is under 4% because of all of the oil and gas that is being extracted from the Bakken field. Which is said to contain more oil than Saudi Arabia.

Obomma will not declare war on Libya But he cirtainly has declared war on the citizens of his”own” country! What kind of president would wish for unaffordable gas prices but to force us to live a life of HIS choosing.
#30 March 22, 2011 at 8:03 pm
mmc commented:

A copy of this letter needs to be sent to every governor,congressman and senator.
#32 March 22, 2011 at 8:44 pm
UpChuck.Liberals commented:

Unreasonable, Unwarranted, Unfair & Unlawful ,,, WOW just like the Presidency of Barry.
#34 March 22, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Valerie commented:

That’s not whiny, it’s a petition for redress of grievances.