{"id":1646,"date":"2010-03-11T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:59:53","slug":"obama-puts-a-stop-to-the-popular-off-shore-drilling-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/obama-puts-a-stop-to-the-popular-off-shore-drilling-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama puts a stop to the popular off shore drilling option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/The-Obama-Moratorium-No-offshore-drilling-while-hes-in-office-87246077.html\">Barbara Hollingsworth reports in the DC Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration\u2019s six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/84781-salazar-eyes-sequential-offshore-drilling-plans\">a new three-year ban<\/a>, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters last Friday. Which means that no new oil and gas leases will be approved during President Obama\u2019s term even though two \u2013thirds of the American public supports such activity, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/offshore_drilling\/68_favor_offshore_oil_drilling\">December 2009 Rasmussen poll<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cSecretary Salazar has finally confirmed what had long been feared \u2013 that the Obama Administration has no intention of opening up new areas for offshore drilling during his four-years in office,\u201d said Rep. Doc Hastings, the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee.<\/p>\n<p>So for the next three years and probably more, trillions of dollars in domestic energy assets will remain untouched while billions of dollars more are spent on foreign oil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, as in the Health Care &#8220;debate&#8221;, our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> has absolutely no interest in what the American People, whom he was elected to represent, care about in a vitally important subject. \u00a0 The President&#8217;s ban on domestic energy sources also tells us that he has no interest in halting rising energy costs or taking any steps toward improving the economy. \u00a0Opening up these\u00a0resources will immediately create\u00a0\u00a0many &#8220;shovel ready&#8221; good paying jobs, providing a short term benefit to the economy as well as long term benefits. \u00a0Why is our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> opposed to actually improving the US economy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Hollingsworth reports in the DC Examiner: The Obama administration\u2019s six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become a new three-year ban, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters last Friday. Which means that no new oil and gas leases will be approved during President Obama\u2019s term even though two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,52,19],"tags":[140,262,294,300,414,839],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-energy","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-incompetent","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-qy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}