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Obama Rejects New Atlantic Ocean Oil Drilling (usatoday.com)
mdsolar writes: The Obama administration will abandon its plan to allow new offshore oil drilling on the U.S. southeast coast, dealing a blow to petroleum companies that had hopes of tapping new reserves. The Interior Department is set to announce today that it will not auction off certain drilling rights for Atlantic Ocean waters off the coast of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The reversal comes after environmentalists, coastal residents, and the U.S. military vocalized opposition to the plan. It also comes amid declining industry investment in new exploration and production activities as oil prices fell by about 70% since late 2014 -- although the industry is still seeking long-term investment opportunities under the assumption that oil prices will recover.
Liberals don't care about the middle class. They constantly tell me how people in Alabama are so uneducated that they shouldn't be allowed to vote. They are constantly interrupting Trump rallies, specifically Bernie Sanders supporters. They favour censorship and believe they should be allowed to prevent you from expressing an opinion they don't like, see Citizen's United case. They oppose school vouchers because it might let the poor kids get a better education at "their" schools. On top of all that, if these middle class say anything there is an endless wave of liberals saying the only reason they oppose the oppression the left has put on them is because they don't like a black guy in the White House.
It has become quite disgusting really. The fact that the only candidate running for president that wants to enforce current illegal immigration laws, that are killing the jobs of those middle class, is being called a racist because of that tells you all you need to know about them.
Liberals take from you, such as Obamacare tax increases, and give you nothing back but name calling while acting like it is you who is the only one who is uncivilized.
That was all horseshit. Low oil prices never created a threat of recession. Except maybe a recession in the trading accounts of oil speculators and energy companies.
For everyone else, it was stimulative to the economy to have oil prices low.
You are welcome on my lawn.
True. He's not stupid. He just panders to stupid people.
And there's the ivory tower elitist thinking that they know all about how people are voting, and the reason why. Useful tip: You're the reason why people are voting for Trump.
Om, nomnomnom...
Gas prices are lower today than they were during the Bush Administration.
You stupid sonofabitch.
I'm pretty sure you've been bitch-slapped over this issue before, so here it goes again:
Chu: DOE working to wean U.S. off oil
“We agree there is great suffering when the price of gasoline increases in the United States, and so we are very concerned about this,” said Chu, speaking to the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee. “As I have repeatedly said, in the Department of Energy, what we’re trying to do is diversify our energy supply for transportation so that we have cost-effective means.”
Chu specifically cited a reported breakthrough announced Monday by Envia Systems, which received funding from DOE’s ARPA-E, that could help slash the price of electric vehicle batteries.
He also touted natural gas as “great” and said DOE is researching how to reduce the cost of compressed natural gas tanks for vehicles.
High gasoline prices will make research into such alternatives more urgent, Chu said.
“But is the overall goal to get our price” of gasoline down, asked Nunnelee.
“No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy,” Chu replied.
So when the price of gas was $4/gal and higher, Obama had ZERO interest in trying to lower gas prices.
Now you're here trying to give credit to Obama for lower gas prices? Calling you dumb as a post would be an insult to every acorn with dreams of being buried, sprouting, growing up, getting cut down, and then sawed into a post, you stupid dumbfuck.
Any unlike you, I back up my claims with cites from actual Obama Administration officials who implement his policies.
So STFU.