Regualtions Not the Only Enemy - Drilling

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Originally Posted by Reverb

Mike it really isn't POTUS, its the new governor.

I'm all for it.... Need to "change" things now...

And just think about how we can fish around oil rigs, and not have to travel to the Gulf.. Hell ya.....

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...KSYzm1IguIrQqA

WASHINGTON — Environmentalists gave a thumbs-down Wednesday to President Barack Obama's plan to expand oil drilling off US coasts.

Obama's plan would open tracts of the Atlantic off the coast of Virginia to exploration and expand leases for prospecting off the western coast of Florida.

http://www.examiner.com/x-5968-DC-Pu...ing-initiative

WASHINGTON: A thirty year moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling comes to an end today with a proposal to open up large swaths of coastline for exploration. President Obama announced the move today with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar by his side at Andrews Air Force Base outside the nation’s capitol.

The Administration’s strategy announced calls for developing oil and gas resources in new areas, such as the Eastern Gulf of Mexico; increasing oil and gas exploration in frontier areas, such as parts of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans; and protecting ocean areas that are simply too special to drill, such as Alaska’s Bristol Bay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/sc.../31energy.html

This NY Times link will show a small map of wher ethe proposed drilling will take place, and it looks to include MD, VA, and DE.

The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates but anger some residents of affected states and many environmental organizations — would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean.

Under the plan, the coastline from New Jersey northward would remain closed to all oil and gas activity. So would the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to the Canadian border.