I’m just looking for the motivation from a different angle.

From “The Corner” (Costa):

Sen. Bob Bennett (R., Utah), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, tells National Review Online that President Obama’s proposal to open areas of the American coastline to oil and natural gas exploration is “more of this administration talking a good fight about moving toward domestic sources of energy.” Yet when “you get into the details,” he says, “they’re clearly moving as strongly as they can in the opposite direction.”

While the administration may act like it is moving to the political center on energy, Bennett says that “tucked away in the language of its policy are countless actions that make it all the more difficult” for exploration. “Just look at what’s happening in Utah,” he says. “I’m trying to push Secretary Salazar in our direction. He keeps telling us that the administration is interested in natural gas, yet there is always some regulatory or legal hang-up that’s cited to keep anything from moving forward. They’re not serious about this. They want to implement onerous regulations. Same goes for coastal exploration.”

Bennett adds that energy will be a key issue in many states come November, and that “the marketplace, the ability of companies to explore,” will be how success in this sector is measured by voters. “[President Obama] is not going to get away

(I accidentally cut off the remained of the remark.)

Oooohhhh this is going to get interesting!

Of course if American energy companies can make profit, the pain at the pump would ease for Americans, Commie Obammie wants nothing to do with it to ruin his plans for the One World Government Brave New World. Can’t kill his commie plans ya know. He’s been plotting the downfall of America since he was knee-high to a grasshopper at Frank Davis’(Communist Mentor as a youth)feet. God Almighty, I’m living in a Twilight Zone episode. Hope it ends in November.

“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.

“The President’s announcement today is a smokescreen. It will almost certainly delay any new offshore exploration until at least 2012 and include only a fraction of the offshore resources that the previous Administration included in its plan.

“Unfortunately, this is yet another feeble attempt to gain votes for the President’s national energy tax bill that is languishing in the Senate. At the end of the day this Administration’s energy plan is simple: increase the cost of energy on every family in America and trade American jobs oversees at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work.”

Wasn’t Obama on Pelosi’s side back then?

From the article….we need to target these senators..

lovingmyUSA on March 31, 2010 at 2:12 PM

Loving.. Begich is a lost cause. Trust me. Murkowski (I called her this morning) and I warned her against this as the BLM may be pulling 2 leases right now in lew of what is going on with this smoke screen.

Landrieu.. well that is Mississippi’s problem.

What an incredibly lame attempt to “triangulate” by the Messiah.

Obama is simply trying to pull a Clinton “in name only” by appearing to go to the center “in words only”.

I guess he’s trying to trick the folks (and he will), but I still have some hope(tm) that 2010 will be like 1994. Obama won’t really go to the center though. I’m just waiting for the impending implosion when all of his lies and triple-talk comes to a head.

But many Republicans criticized Obama’s initiative as a half-hearted measure. House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) called the move “a smokescreen,” adding that “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.”