Barack Obama's oil policy to date.
- Open up 3 million acres of US East coast to oil drilling.
- Open up 2 million acres of AK to oil drilling.
- Stating that government will "protect environment" in both cases. A scientifically and technically impossible lie.
- $1T for continued oil wars in Iraqistan.
- Letting AK oil Senator Murkowski write Obama's oil/energy climate bill.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The Interior Department is offering oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve while promising to protect critical migratory bird and caribou habitat.
Obama administration was military spending was $811B in FY 10. That does not include DOE nuclear program or VA care of vets of a decade of war in Iraqistan. It will hit $1T in FY 11
A group of seventeen Senators -- which includes Senator Murkowski -- will be meeting with President Obama Tuesday to discuss a path forward.
Ah bipartisanship to the last.
If Bush had done what Obama has done as far as catering to the oil companies on unlimited oil drilling, liberal Democrats and many independents would be in the streets. Obama does it with impunity, echoing the oil companies lies of we'll protect the environment as the oil industry destroys Gulf of Mexico as a viable ecosystem.
Obama's presidency is one that the environment is going to have to recover from the same as Reagan and the Bushes. Obama's is not a presidency where US will make economic, environmental or national security progress on oil.
What are Obama's motives is a real question. Everything Obama has done has gone against science and technological reality. It goes against Obama's own campaign rhetoric. It alienates people who voted for Obama and energizes those who voted against him and cannot wait to vote against him again.
Baffling behavior and damaging policy.
The signature of the Obama administration is that more of US will be open to destructive oil drilling and US will be as dependent on oil imports when Obama leaves office as when he came in.