It begins: Obama shelves Bush plan to open more coastal waters to drilling
posted at 8:18 pm on February 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Via Gateway Pundit, noting that there’s already a bill to ban drilling in ANWR floating around in Congress. If Palin’s looking for a foothold in the national debate, here’s her chance:
On Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered the plan be put on hold while his agency conducts a 180-day review of the country’s offshore oil and gas resources. Salazar’s critical comments about the plan signaled that the new administration will seek to rewrite it if not completely scrap it.
The Bush proposal “opened the possibility of oil and gas leases along the entire Eastern seaboard, portions of offshore California and the far eastern Gulf of Mexico with almost no consultation from states, industry or community input,” Salazar said at a news conference in Washington. “In my view it was a headlong rush of the worst kind.”…
Salazar did not directly address the bigger question: Whether Obama will seek to renew the three-decade-old presidential moratorium on drilling off most of the East and West coasts, which Bush lifted last July amid growing public anger over soaring gas prices…
The plan would have allowed drilling on 44 million acres of federal waters off Humboldt and Mendocino counties, and 89 million acres off San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles and San Diego counties.
Exit question: Yes, granted, it’ll take years to start pulling the resources out of those waters. Even so, why wouldn’t a guy who’ll be in office potentially until 2016, who’s staring at a multi-year economic crisis and a nuclear arms race in the most critical energy region on the planet, want to plan ahead for bad contingencies by starting to drill now?
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Anyone here, who doesn’t give 2 s**ts about Michael Phelps, have any idea of a good website that is talking about the coming, necessary revolution? I can’t sign on to any of this Alex Jones nonsense… I’m looking for someone that knows what’s going on, without the 9/11 conspiracy theorist nonsense.
RightWinged on February 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM
fyi, as much as I love HotAir and AllahPundit, my Michael Phelps comment was a slam against AP for posting something on Phelps while we watch our company falling apart before our eyes!
RightWinged on February 10, 2009 at 11:54 PM
wow, typo time… company = country, in my last comment
RightWinged on February 10, 2009 at 11:54 PM
jerrytbg on February 10, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Send me the link at goats_barnyard at msn
goat on February 10, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Because he’s above that, I would think tho that in less than a year that gas prices will double and we’ll see if Obama doesn’t see things differently when votes are at stake.
Speakup on February 10, 2009 at 11:58 PM
I think Rightwinged is on the wrong thread.
goat on February 11, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Nope, I’m in the best thread available… it’s the most recent post on what is happening to the country and the world, and I only mention Phelps because I’m trying to point out how silly it is that there is a newer post, about him, while we watch the country die.
RightWinged on February 11, 2009 at 12:07 AM
goat,
at ya…soon.
jerrytbg on February 11, 2009 at 12:07 AM
RightWinged on February 11, 2009 at 12:07 AM
What the hell does Phelps have to do with energy production?
goat on February 11, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Up yours Elkhart RV’ers! /barry
ex-Democrat on February 11, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Absolutely nothing. But energy production has A LOT to do with the destruction of this nation, and my mention of phelps is a little Jazz at AllahPundit’s expense, because he posted on Phelps while the country dies. You followin’ me, now?
RightWinged on February 11, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Alana on February 10, 2009 at 9:21 PM
By George, I think she’s got it!
funky chicken on February 11, 2009 at 12:35 AM
And it makes the best sausage that can be made.
Johan Klaus on February 11, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Obama wants ten dollar a gallon gasoline.
Johan Klaus on February 11, 2009 at 12:39 AM
RightWinged on February 11, 2009 at 12:33 AM
AP posts on many subjects people are interested in bringing up Phelps here to hit at AP makes little sense. He did post this thread and a Phelps thread so go over there to complain.
jerrytbg on February 11, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Send it on it sounds like a goldmine for blog posts.
goat on February 11, 2009 at 12:46 AM
you bet Johan…it’s all in the seasoning…
the last stew I made, friends couldn’t believe it was venison. One even said I was faking it…lol.
jerrytbg on February 11, 2009 at 12:49 AM
goat,
ck your mail?
jerrytbg on February 11, 2009 at 12:51 AM
jerrytbg on February 11, 2009 at 12:51 AM
It has not come through yet maybe the folder size is slowing it down. did you add the dot com on the end? Grin
goat on February 11, 2009 at 1:01 AM
jerrytbg on February 11, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Best chile I ever made was from bear meat, game is actually easier to cook than supermarket meat when you know the tricks and far far better. I ate more venison, rabbit squirrel, dove, bass, brim and even possum growing up than I did store bought meat.
goat on February 11, 2009 at 1:08 AM
goat,
All I sent was the link…msn ~rolls eyes~
“Game” was something later in life for me…Dad was against hunting, WWII combat vet Bronze Star holder…
He said if I gave the deer a gun he let me get one…you know the story… got to get up early…enjoy the read.
jerrytbg on February 11, 2009 at 1:24 AM
When gas goes back up to $3 or $4 a gallon (in a horrible recession, no less!) because Obama wants to save a sea sponge, it’ll all be worth it, right?
An indication that the US is serious about developing its own energy will drive down gas prices now and in the future. It will make more sense for producers to get their limited oil out of the ground now, rather than waiting for a time in which there will be more competition. Obviously, more domestic drilling would enable us to better weather oil shocks. Finally, the world economy may radically improve in 10 years. We cannot develop such a short-sighted policy.
Given the fact that the only bright spot in this recession is that families are able to put gas in their cars and heat their homes, this is particularly dumb.
Roxeanne de Luca on February 11, 2009 at 1:48 AM
If he wants to create jobs, offshore drilling is one way. If he wants to generate more revenue, taxing oil resources could help stuff the coffers. If he wants to end our dependence on foreign oil, offshore drilling would be at a minimum a STEP in the right direction.
The AMAZING thing to me is the N-E-R-V-E of these guys complaining that we can’t ‘RUSH’
These guys are trying to PUSH through 3 TRILLION dollars (more than the cost of ALL US WARS COMBINED) of spending in their first two weeks. Yet drilling for oil over the next 20 years is a ‘rushed decision’?
The nerve of these people is amazing. Obama is a novice, and he’s going to fall like a stone when his popularity fades (soon). He’ll wish he wasn’t president.
ThackerAgency on February 11, 2009 at 2:05 AM
Check the oil speculation prices tomorrow………..
……. if they go up, and we start paying more for a gallon of gas, this is on Mr. Obama, the child president.
But don’t rule out Soros to come in and save his ass….
Seven Percent Solution on February 11, 2009 at 2:58 AM
What is so hard for folks to understand here? The Messiah’s plan is VERY simple… He needs, must have, oil and gas prices in the 4 to 5, maybe even 6 or 7 dollar range in order for his grand scheem of “green” energy to take hold. If gas prices stay at current levels people will not go for the “scare” tactic of needing smart cars and wind and solar in such a big way… Sure he can throw some money (OUR MONEY) at the “gree” alternatives but vast public support would not be there… However, if he artificialy drives up gas prices with drilling bans and higher taxes, he will get a “paniced” populace again… And force thru his radical enviro nutcase agenda… This is artificial! It’s another LIE! If we would drill, open new refineries and lift cafe standards we would all be paying around $1 a gallon tops!
Mark Garnett on February 11, 2009 at 7:22 AM
Said it before, Ill say it again, Obama is a traitor.
Viper1 on February 11, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Energy rationing ahead …
tarpon on February 11, 2009 at 7:56 AM
Boggles the mind, doesn’t it.
Obama has to know that implementation of his ‘green’ ideology will send energy prices ballistic, and that in turn will strangle the economy for decades to come. He can’t possibly be so naive as not to realize this, can he?
If he realizes the consequences, yet chooses to proceed anyway, what could he possibly be thinking?
petefrt on February 11, 2009 at 7:57 AM
When I read
I thought he was talking about the “stimulus” package. My bad.
29Victor on February 11, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Rightwinger:
So, in your opinion, we can only talk about things that are important in your eyes?
MarkTheGreat on February 11, 2009 at 8:37 AM
To everyone who is upset that Obama got elected, just remember Soros was behind McCain, too. This country ended the night that guy got the nomination. It wasn’t a matter of if this country was going to be destroyed, but by whom.
Remember? McCain doesn’t believe in drilling, either. And he was all for the pork-laden bailout. Not to mention open borders, limits on free speech, hamstringing capitalism. At least the libs have put us on their dream of a road to ruin under a (D).
That’s this country’s only shot to wake the hell up as to what we’re up against and who the enemy really is.
LibTired on February 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM
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Amended…
RalphyBoy on February 11, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Agreed…
Carter II
RalphyBoy on February 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Salazar has already nixed leases in Utah and Colorado as being “too close” to national parks and monuments. They’re not IN the parks, just near them. With that kind of logic, everywhere is “too close” or “near” and we won’t be able to drill anywhere.
There were quite a few Republicans who voted for him for Senator over Pete Coors thinking that he was a native Colorado man with solid, moderate values. Ha! He did nothing but vote the party line and take away development of our natural resources. Bet those people are sorry now!
Common Sense on February 11, 2009 at 10:45 AM
When gas at the pump surges aboue $2 soon… Get in the Obama Zombies faces with this being the reason. Don’t let up on his
votersfollowers, some of them may wake up.RalphyBoy on February 11, 2009 at 11:24 AM
B. Hussein Obama and the democratically controlled congress could care less. When their “porkzilla” package gets through with the american public, they won’t be able afford to own and maintain an automobile much less buy gas for one. Last time people ended up living in hoovervilles, this time it’ll be obamavilles.
TrickyDick on February 11, 2009 at 1:37 PM
It only took a small shortfall of oil supplies below demand to send oil over $140/barrel last summer, and a small excess over demand to send oil to $40/barrel recently. If the economy picks up just a little, with the requirements for many gasoline blends in spring, what went down might just go back up.
Bob Dylan was wrong. The answer ain’t blowin’ in the wind, it’s Drill Baby Drill.
Steve Z on February 11, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Assuming TAO is right and the stimulus restores full employment for 4 million people, demand will rise. To whit, Americans drove 9 billion fewer miles last October than they did the year before. How much does anyone wanna bet that crude will blow past $200/barrel?
AH_C on February 11, 2009 at 4:34 PM
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