Comments on: Obama Puts Coastal Drilling ‘On Hold’

By: Confucius

Confucius — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:27:11 +0000

“It opened the possibility of oil and gas leases . . . with almost no consultation from states, industry or community input . . . .”

Silly Americans. You have no input.

By: 12 Gauge Rage

12 Gauge Rage — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:29:20 +0000

Why is there so much opposition to more drilling? A few months ago the mere mention of opening up these areas for operation made gas prices begin to drop significantly. It wouldn’t surprise me if the militant environmentalist were behind all this. Ken Salazar is an idiot. Others of his kind have no vision of how great this opportunity can be. Instead they focus on the worst case what if? scenarios it might bring. Like jobs, money, and less dependence from them.

By: A Mad Pole

A Mad Pole — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:38:23 +0000

At least those of us who survive biological and dirty-bomb attacks perpetuated by Obama-freed “freedom fighters” from Gitmo and their comrades.

By: proreason

proreason — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:26:38 +0000

Is there nothing he won’t do to insure the destruction of the country he hates so much?

By: heykev

heykev — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:26:19 +0000

I thought California was in DESPERATE need of money and jobs. This would give them some of both, guess we will just have to bail them out too. So much for energy independence…but hey, we have unlimited amounts of paper and ink, lets just print some more money!

As long as were bailing out everyone and everything possible…here’s someone just as worthy and the banks and auto industry, and wse can bail them out for a mere 6k http://www.jessicaneedsanewnose.com/

By: Reality Bytes

Reality Bytes — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:48:23 +0000

In twenty years, we’ll all look back on this year & laugh saying, “Allah be praised. We were so foolish then. Praise God for our great leader, Iman Barack Hussein.

By: BillK

BillK — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:35:39 +0000

We all saw this coming, so it’s not even mildly surprising.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

White House puts coastal drilling plans on hold

By Zachary Coile

President Obama is shelving a plan announced in the final days of the Bush presidency to open much of the U.S. coast to oil and gas drilling, including 130 million acres off California’s shores from Mendocino to San Diego…

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....15R7TQ.DTL

Because, you know, who needs that silly oil stuff.

Wind, solar and geothermal will be the answer to everything, if only…

Birds didn’t keep getting killed by windmills.

We’d need to cover most of the West Coast with solar cells to generate the same power as a singe coal-fired power plant.

Geothermal? Why, that requires drilling. Oooh, can’t have that, either.

But you’ve got to love Salazar’s guts in stating:

In my view, it was a headlong rush of the worst kind.

In view of what his boss is trying to foist upon the American public.