AP:
In a reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will not pursue offshore drilling off the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
A senior administration official told The Associated Press that because of the BP oil spill, the Interior Department will not propose any new oil drilling in waters off the East Coast for at least the next seven years.
President Barack Obama’s earlier plan – announced in March, three weeks before the April BP spill – would have authorized officials to explore potential for drilling from Delaware to central Florida, plus the northern waters of Alaska. The new plan allows potential drilling in Alaska, but officials said they will move cautiously before approving any leases.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar planned to discuss details of the decision later Wednesday. He said in a statement obtained by the AP that the BP spill taught officials a number of lessons, “most importantly that we need to proceed with caution and focus on creating a more stringent regulatory regime.”
Actually, what the BP spill evidently taught you is that you could manufacture an environmental crisis, shake down a private company, cite false authority to get a drilling moratorium, withstand the consequences of having that massaging of the facts revealed to the public, and — after a “shellacking” at the polls — continue business as usual, depressing the economies of several states, keeping gas prices artificially high, and helping out international companies who are happy to fill the vacuum created by this cynical maneuvering disguised as environmental solicitousness.
To your credit, though, you learned it well.
Your liberal fascist decoder ring is in the mail…
At the risk of sounding all Godwin an shit, is there going to a Riechstag fire soon? I gotta know cause I got all these brats an shit.
JeffG – that might be the best and most concise description of the BP oil spill that I have seen.
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Idiot.
I was referring to FROTUS, of course
your guide to drilling offshore
bumblefuck and jobs don’t even live in the same zip code
Yep, just more jobs some bossy Americans won’t let other Americans do. But then, hey, they won’t let non-Americans do them here in America either, though if the non-Americans propose to do them in non-America, well, in that case, lets us Americans lend ’em a couple billion dollars or so to get their works up and running, says the bossy Americans who boss us around.
I get it. They can still drill in Alaska, that’ll send all the folks who lost jobs on the rigs in LA up to the Arctic. Solves 2 problems. 1) all the roughnecks pissed off at Obama over the drilling ban are gone, and 2) they Unionize the shit out of Alaska. Rove you magnificent bastard!
If I were as smart as alppuccino, I would know what FROTUS stands for. But I don’t, because alp is smarter.
Too late. The pipeline folks already took care of that 40 years ago.
I assume the R stands for Retard.
Well, I don’t know why this move would suprise anyone.
I mean, they have to leave the oil deposits off of coastal Florida untouched, otherwise the Russians and Chinese drilling into them from off the coast of Cuba would be cheated of all that oil they deserve more than us.
Because of the fairness…
Florida Jefferson’s hubby went to work on the pipeline.
JJ, Michael, and Thelma were hardest hit.
You mean John Amos went to Alaska!
If I were as smart as alppuccino, I would know what FROTUS stands for. But I don’t, because alp is smarter.
The “R” stands for retard. Now we’ll both know.
Amos’ character went to Alaska but he didn’t make much money because he didn’t belong to the right union local. All he got to do was clean the toilets in the welders’ dorms.
If he’d been non-union the only work he would’ve gotten related to the pipeline would have been pumping gas for tips at a 7-Eleven in Fairbanks.
…and I believe that should read “If I was as smart as alppuccino”. Checkmate sir.
Reading this news makes my ninth-generation Texan blood boil. Under Obama, this country is essentially being run by foreign, anti-American socialists. But none dare call it treason.
They may not have the last word:
If Jed had been shoot’in at some food these days, his ass would’ve been in prison for destroying the environment, and billed for the clean up. Then the state would’ve Keloed Granny, and made sure that bubbling crude got capped quick.
On the plus side, Levin said China is buying up every exploration lease in the world that they can get their hands on.
Oh well, I’m sure they will sell us all the oil we need. That is, if we wear sweaters and do laundry at 3am. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Congressional Review Act
with right people in dc in power the regs in this country could be rolled back to say 1995.
Otto, my sister is a Methodist minister in Pensacola, so she actually gets to talk with real people. The damage done by the spill is several orders of magnitude less than the hysteria ginned up by O!, and the job killing moratorium he just extended. Triangle Shirtwaist fire my ass.
Bobby fucking Orr
Otto sounds like someone who won’t be here very long.
Who’s heavily invested in Brazilian oil?
The same guy who is heavily invested in Monsanto, who would have benefited mightily from the “Food Safety” bill that the Senate just tried to foist onto the House in direct and obvious defiance of the Constitution.
Voldegeorge’s interests just keep turning up everywhere, don’t they?
He didn’t have to manufacture anything. It was the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of offshore drilling.
There are many shrimp fishermen in the gulf area anxious for the latest “free market” correction.
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What? They’re going to come up with more stringent regulations for the regulators not to enforce? Because they may have renamed the Minerals Management Service the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, but you know they’ve got the same useless and unfirable honyacks runnin’ the joint. But I suppose that in the future, when they’re reviewing Gulf drilling permits they’ll make sure the permits have the proper provisions to protect polar bears and penguins.
Hey, what happened to WordPress’s notorious ability to detect duplicate comments?
He didn’t have to manufacture anything. It was the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of offshore drilling.
There are many shrimp fishermen in the gulf area anxious for the latest “free market” correction.
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Religiously true believers come in many shapes and sizes. Otto’s getting his personal piety on tonight, by means of extra dots and dashes.
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is the guitar teacher in the house?
Yeah, Thor Jr has found a way around the duplicate comment detector…
Otto runs ottomaticly on ottopilot.
Shrimpers are befouled and befouling as a matter of course: Shrimps are just bugs, if damned expensive lil’ critters for all that. Yiz can catch a bluecrab with a chicken neck, a piece of string and a bitty ol’ net. Mebbe different tastin’ but eats just as good as a bug from where I’m steamin’ ’em.
Otto, I’m not really catching on to what you’re trying to say. Want to run it by me 12 or 13 more times?
Otto keeps repeating the same thing over and over. He must be a graduate of the nishbot school of debating. I suppose this is his dissertation.
Yelverton and AJB have taken refuge at Patterico’s blog since comment registration started. Funny how that blog has devolved into something of a PW troll sanctuary.
it’s worth noting maybe that the new chair of the House Natural Resources Committee seems to be a pretty good choice his name is Mr. Doc Hastings
that last part is especially heartening
Hating me transcends political bounds. Lots of good men over there.
lots of good men everywheres!
Man, I just NEVER saw this coming, you could knock me over with a feather.
It sickens me to say, I made a desperate bid on a Bakken stock or two back in ’08, when it became clear Obama was gonna be elected. I knew they wouldn’t allow offshore drilling, despite the promises. I just can’t believe exactly how it happened.
The North Dakota Bakken is surpassing all expectations as far as production, and companies there are probably glad to hear new roustabouts are coming in, ‘cuz nobody can find workers.
Great summary, Jeff.
/And, if it matters, Bakken shares have been surging the last week, surprising given the dollar’s recent strength against the Euro (which should depress oil). It’s almost as though folks knew this announcement was coming… I wouldn’t recommend my investments to anyone, however, as we’re talking AMEX-traded, ’80s-era-broker-style-manipulated, essentially penny stocks until very recently, that are now getting heavily hyped, but I’m holding what I have. Happily.
//I also figured back then, if EPA cracked down on the Bakken like they have offshore, folks there would go all Copperhead Row on the inspectors before setting the whole thing on fire like the Wyatt Oil Fields in Atlas Shrugged.
A damned shame. We’ve oil aplenty just beyond the reach of our chosen politician’s intellect.
Are we sure Obama is not a Muslim ?
taking away people’s jobs and making oil more expensive certainly isn’t very Christian
Following any religion’s doctrine is far from being an important motivator in our President’s decision-making processes, it seems. But you’d think he’d at least factor in his children’s prospects when he’s playing games, engaging in long-term tinkering with our nation’s ability to sustain a prosperous and healthy future. I just don’t see that happening; our futures, our kid’s futures just don’t seem very bright anymore.
It might just be me, but BHO always seems to regard his kids more as specimens or as a project for his wife to do. I just don’t sense his strong connectivity.
His kids will be just fine. The Inner Party knows its own.
Speaking of liberal fascism, here’s Barack Obama’s America: TSA bull-dykes groping elderly nuns in wheelchairs
Pathetic.
“Don’t drill me, bro.” -Gaia
Gravatar won’t let me log in because I have a dash and period in my login name. I feel so… so… nekkid without an avatar. Not stylish. VICTIM!!!
Gravatar works by e-mail address. Try that instead.
Yelverton and AJB have taken refuge at Patterico’s blog since comment registration started. Funny how that blog has devolved into something of a PW troll sanctuary.
Ha ha haa …
Isn’t it heartwarming, in a nauseating sort of way, to see that Left and Right can put aside their petty differences and come together in the universal realization that they both hates themselves that damned Jeff Goldstein.
Because of the REJECTION OF INTENT-iness!
*Yelverton and AJB have taken refuge at Patterico’s blog since comment registration started. Funny how that blog has devolved into something of a PW troll sanctuary.*
I must say, I will miss all of their insight and witticisms. Sometimes my FB status is just awesome stuff Yelverton spews on this blog, because its so interesting and insightful and I think all of my friends should be exposed to it.
Coincidentally, my friends list has been steadily shrinking since I started but its pretty obvious those people fear knowledge and would rather cling to stuff.
I keep hoping that if I stick around long enough, I’ll get to feel some vicarious hate. Splash damage, as it were.
…and I believe that should read “If I was as smart as alppuccino”. Checkmate sir.
cranky was right, alp. ‘Tis the subjunctive.
FROTUS
Formidable Retard of the United States?
Works for me. I work in the steel pipe business so these sorts of “moratoriums” create some lasting issues. What is passionately clear is buttressed by billions wasted on ethanol and other “green” companies as well as the idea of the FED tossing hundreds of billions of dollars to European banks.
In other words, not a single clue of economic capitalism and the current malaise of world wide economies.
Tis a socialist primate condition of barring work that turns tens of thousands out of work to “protect” the shoreline while tossing money at the Brazilians because, hey, who gives a royal crap if that country soils its shoreline.
No voters to consume at that level.
There are still hard core lefties spewing garbage at FROTUS but despite the occasional issue problems he’s a socialist, a man who has no freakin’ clue what has to be done to run a capitalistic economy in such a way that, well, more people will work.
Silly, ignorant, Formally Retarded.
VICTIM!!! grieve with me.
“Only lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers are allowed. (username issue)”
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Formidable Retard of the United States?
Ha! Formidable. Good one Beej!
(still not a great substitute for the true vulgar word. How about Funky)
I’ll give you a hint
I’ll give you a hint
Freakin? Fracky? Frothing? Feeble? Fancantalistic? Futile? Fresno?
Oh, Fracture!
Getting warmer.
Flobby-boobed
“I’ll take ‘Fucking’ for $200, Alex…”
the moonbats seem to think there are penguins in alaska
link
Fucking for $200? That’s expensive even for LA.
Thanks, McGehee.