Obama Kills Atlantic Offshore Drilling For Five Years
30th March 2012
The announcement by the Interior Department sets into motion what will be at least a five year environmental survey to determine whether and where oil production might occur.Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell notes that a planned lease sale, which the administration cancelled last year, will now be put off until at least 2018.
Because, you know, it’s a really bad thing to be dependent on foreign oil, and anyway gas prices are just too high.