Moonbattery
The good news: America has plenty of energy resources — more than enough for total self-sufficiently. The bad news: our liberal rulers have placed them off limits:
While the Obama administration was taking a victory lap last week after the 5-4 Supreme Court decision to uphold the president’s signature legislative accomplishment, Obamacare, the Interior Department was using the media black hole to release a much-awaited five-year plan for offshore drilling. That plan reinstitutes a 30-year moratorium on offshore energy exploration that will keep our most promising resources locked away until long after President Obama begins plans for his presidential library. Given the timing, it is clear that the self-described “all of the above” energy president didn’t want the American people to discover that he was denying access to nearly 98 percent of America’s vast energy potential on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
This is nothing new for the Manchurian Moonbat.
[S]ince taking office, Mr. Obama and [left-wing Secretary of the Interior Ken] Salazar have worked to restrict access to our offshore oil and gas resources by canceling lease sales, delaying others and creating an atmosphere of uncertainty about America’s future offshore development that has left job creators looking for other countries’ waters to host their offshore rigs. More than 3 1/2 years into the Obama regime, nearly 86 billion barrels of undiscovered oil on the Outer Continental Shelf remain off-limits to Americans. Alaska alone has about 24 billion barrels of oil in unleased federal waters. The Commonwealth of Virginia – where Mr. Obama has reversed policies that would have allowed offshore development – is home to 130 million barrels of offshore oil and 1.14 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. But thanks to the president, Virginians will have to wait at least another five years before they can begin creating the jobs that will unlock their offshore resources.
Once you add those restrictions to the vast amount of shale oil that is being blocked, the administration has embargoed nearly 200 years of domestic oil supply.
Even if the “mainstream” media let people know about this, no one should be surprised. After all, Obama originally ran on a platform of causing energy prices to “skyrocket” and the coal plants that provide half our electricity to go bankrupt, on the grounds that
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”
America is in decline for the sole reason that it is ruled by its enemies.
Socialism is not the Answer 
It’s obvious this has been a very well planned process so that competeing nations can get there first, and obumma is profiting well from it.
He doesn’t even know it! He made a total fool of himself over the BP Spill.
Recently he gave Oil Rich Islands off the coast of Alaska TO the Russians.
He wants us dependent upon HIS FRIENDS in the Middle East for the oil.
There aren’t enough words to describe just how despicable this manis.
If this Fraud is relieved of his position, We would be able to negate everything he has ruled on….. Except all his mistakes….
Roy, that’s why we need someone other than Romney as President. Romney is just a more “slick” version of Obama.
Obama’s actions weren’t mistakes. They were DELIBERATE. We may not be able to “undo” all of them…we need someone to spend the first 4 years “correcting” Obama’s deliberate actions that has hurt us. Then another four years to push us back to at the least where we were before.
I will talk to ya’ll tomorrow. I am now going to bed.
Yes, it is by design. Although there are those foolish enough to believe that Obama is simply stupid. But when one adds up all the supposedly stupid actions, it’s quite clear that his goal is the utter destruction of this country that he, his wife, and his handlers despise. “Hope and change” was merely a euphemism for the destruction he is perpetrating.
The Kenyan fraud doesn’t take kindly to drilling.
Look what happened to Larry Bland and Donald Young after they drilled Obama’s back forty.