Good news for Arab oil countries! Obama shelves Bush plan to open more coastal waters to drilling – gas prices continue to rise

Even with the price per barrel of oil dropping to $38 per barrel, gas prices continue to rise. Arab counties, and Venezuela must be giddy to learn that on Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered the plan be put on hold while his agency conducts a 180-day review of the country’s offshore oil and gas resources. Salazar’s critical comments about the plan signaled that the new administration will seek to rewrite it if not completely scrap it.

Lets see what those wonderful democrats have done over the last 30 years to help us “break our addiction to foreign oil”:

Over the past 30 years:

Democrats have blocked the development of new sources of petroleum.
Democrats have blocked drilling in ANWR.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the coast of Florida.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the east coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the west coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast.
Democrats have blocked building oil refineries.
Democrats have blocked clean nuclear energy production.
Democrats have blocked clean coal production.

Already this year democrats scrapped oil and gas leases in Utah and opened the 111th Congress by introducing a bill to permanently prohibit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Prairie Pundit adds this:

They knew Republicans were getting voters attention on the issue so they pretended to agree to get themselves through November. Obama did give some hints when he only committed to “look” at offshore production. I guess he has had his look.

Oh, and windmills are a carbon-saving scam.

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February 10, 2009 · Filed Under Democrats


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