Drill Gate: Obama Enacts De-Facto Ban on New Offshore Energy
The Obama Administration, would be hard pressed to move any slower than they already have, never mind what the American people want
Drill Gate: Obama Administration Ignores American People, Enacts De-Facto Ban on New Offshore Energy
By Institute for Energy Research
Monday, February 15, 2010
One of the most disappointing aspects of the Obama Administration’s domestic policy has been the way it has dealt with domestic energy production – in particular new offshore energy production.
It took oil prices reaching $147 a barrel for President Bush to tear up the moratorium on offshore energy production, but at least when he did, he quickly moved forward with the regulatory process to give Americans access to these energy sources—and the jobs this development would create. The Obama Administration, on the other hand, would be hard pressed to move any slower than they already have, never mind what the American people want.
It has recently come to light, through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by American Solutions, that there may be more here than meets the eye. More on that in a second; first, a bit of history on what led up to what is now called “drill gate.â€