He isn't. There is no ban on drilling either in mainland USA or offshore, merely a moratorium on new leases.
Since only a small proportion of existing leases are currently being used this moratorium in no way prevents expansion of US oil output.
And since the moratorium has been passed every year by congress since 1981 - including the 14 years Republicans were in charge - blaming the situation on Obama is a bit rich.Why is Hussein Obama against drilling for oil in the US?
You mean Barack Obama; well he's a left winger, who believes in heavy taxes, and raising alarm bells as an excuse to put out yet more legislation, more government, and more regulation.
Myself personally I HATE extreme right wingers, most of all Republicans. Nicest politically affiliated people I've met are libertarians, although, their economic views just aren't practical. I mean come on deregulation? In the 19th century everything was deregulated, and because corporations could basically do as they pleased, sometimes they killed people. You know those organization methods the Italian mafia is so admired for? They learned from corporations, only they didn't do it as good. It did not escape Italian immigrants screwed over by the system, that if they wanted a slice of the american pie, they would have to get organized, like a corporation, and they would have to be ruthless, like a corporation. Mafia brutality, all it was, was the fact that the majority of guidos were very good students of the established order, that's all it was.
I have a love/hate relationship with Italians; on the one hand, I know people in Honduras who are Italian, and they're nice folks. Thing is, they haven't been polluted by this culture; because they live in Honduras they are truer to their Italian/Mediterranean heritage, and less like anglosphere turds who I feel are traitors to their culture. Yeah that's right, I think Italian americans are damned traitors, and not true Italians. A true Italian, knows to be a nice person, like someone of mediterranean culture, be it Latin America, or the mediterranean countries on the European side. Also, Italian American women are a bunch of damned putanas.
Getting off the tangent; you heard the above statement, it isn't about energy conservation it is about extending government power. However one issue I will need to bring up, is the idea of ';making oil obsolete.'; That friend, is a load of crap; we need oil for every aspect of our daily lives. Plastics and various polymers? Oil. Latex condoms that allow for a relatively but not completely safe hedonistic lifestyle? Again, oil, petroleum; latex is a petrol product. The Al-Saud don't care how ';immoral'; we are; the more people use condoms hey, because its a petrol product and likely they have investments in it, Saudis get more $$$$$$$$$$. See I hate the Saudis; that is why all my clothes are made of 100% cotton.
However it is unavoidable not to use petroleum products; odds are you encountered as many as 100 just going to and fro and didn't realize it. What we need to do, is find a way to synthesize it, and don't believe that nonsense that it can't be done; chemists are modern day magicians, and I have faith in their brain power. Well, at least the ethical ones who are not corporate dogs. Oil corporations practically own all the world's best chemists; chemistry is a good major to choose, because petroleum companies hire practically all of them, offering them very high salaries.
Because most of the best chemists have been bought off, very little hope rests with any of them regarding the development of synthetic petroleum. Israel's chemists, should be working around the clock, and Mossad should be just as concerned with BP, and Saudi Aramco sending spies, as well as American oil companies, as they are with terrorists. Ultimately though those people seem unable to reason.
He's not. As has been stated before, there is no ban on drilling in the U.S. or offshore. So, saying that Obama is against drilling for oil in the U.S. isn't true. He just isn't convinced that drilling in Alaska specifically will solve our problems. Apparently, neither is McCain. He also came out against drilling in the Alaskan refuge. Here are their quotes:
McCain: ';As far as ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) is concerned, I don’t want to drill in the Grand Canyon, and I don't want to drill in the Everglades. This is one of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world.';
Obama: ';I strongly reject drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because it would irreversibly damage a protected national wildlife refuge without creating sufficient oil supplies to meaningfully affect the global market price or have a discernible impact on US energy security.';
In 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy said this: “ There is little direct knowledge regarding the petroleum geology of the ANWR region.... ANWR oil production is not projected to have a large impact on world oil prices.... Additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR would be only a small portion of total world oil production, and would likely be offset in part by somewhat lower production outside the United States.”
Annual United States consumption of crude oil and petroleum products was 7.55 billion barrels in 2006 and again in 2007, totaling 15.1 billion barrels. In comparison, the USGS estimated that the ANWR reserve contains only 10.4 billion barrels.
Because there is no oil shortage, it is all about greed. Until you get a president that will stand up to greed nothing will happen.
Check your facts. He isn't. It's different to acknowledge that drilling alone won't solve all our energy problems than being against it.
Americans have oil issues- they want to copy the arabs and drink oil too
We don't have ';plenty'; ...Why don't you go to the Bureau of Land Management site and do some research for once.
I still remember when all americans were against this, what has changed?
It's Barack
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