They sure are quiet about it at the moment—with much of the Gulf literally in flames and a 200-mile stretch of critical estauaries and salt marsh about to be inundated with thousands of gallons of crude oil every day...for months, if not years—but just a month ago, Obama and his white boys were all about off-shore drilling all along the American coasts. But don't trust me, let's return to the nation's journal of record:
Take a moment to stroll with Mister Bates down memory lane...
THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 30, 2010
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.
The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates...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....the sheer breadth of the offshore drilling decision will take some of his supporters aback.
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