Judge blocks Gulf offshore drilling moratorium
 

NEW ORLEANS ? A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, saying the government rashly concluded that because one rig failed, the others are in immediate danger, too.

The White House promised an immediate appeal. The Interior Department had halted approval of any new permits for deepwater drilling and suspended drilling of 33 exploratory wells in the Gulf.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama believes strongly that drilling at such depths does not make sense and puts the safety of workers "at a danger that the president does not believe we can afford."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill

Good. What is good enough for Soros and Obama's cronies in Brazil (who are drilling in 2,700+ meters of water using US tax dollars) is good enough for the US.

drill baby drill....


Palin 2012!!!

Glad to see some common sense...

common sense prevails

yet they allow bp's atlantis rig to continue drilling in 7000ft water in the gulf of mexico

What common sense are you guys referring to?

The common sense that big oil needs to make a profit at any cost, no matter how dangerous their methods are?

You people are either insane, and or so filled with Obama-hate, that you are now blind to logic.

Common sense my ass....

This is good. I'll bet anything the BP rig is an anomaly in an industry that has a pretty good track record for safety.

The only one unsafe isBP with their + 700 safety violations in 2007 Tony Hayward was unfortunatly unaware of or not responsible or not involved.

i won't be answering your question.

there's no common sense in trying to converse with you and share opinions. you've already shown that you fly off the handle, jump to conclusions about others with whom you disagree and show a general disrespect for others' views.

to wit.


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9334343 bucks says you live nowhere near the gulf coast.

Can't imagine why this judge would do this. He has to know the Federal Government will get their way over his on this issue.

They will strike now hard to change that, fuckers

i grew up in pasadena, texas, a 45 minute drive down i-45 to the gulf. spent summers at our beach house in galveston. spent my 18th birthday wading through flood waters from hurrican alicia to buy my 1st case of beer legally. i still have family and very close friends there and visit, as much as i dislike southeast texas
my sister and brother in law live in slidell, louisiana, they are both in the oil&gas bidness and had their boat destroyed by hurricane katrina. i visit them and my niece and nephew often, not in the summers though.

i take paypal.

Where do you live now?

don't worry about it.

Like I said obviously nowhere near the gulf. My guess is cali

oooo, you got me good........

http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_s...r-troopers.jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_621501.html

/carry on

good luck finding a judge who does not own shares of an oil co.

Well, as long as he's a neutral party in all of this... :Oh crap

money talks

seems like a level-headed, common-sense, unbiased opinion to me

What does phrase "the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country" mean, when all of the oil drilled is sold on the international market?

all of the oil that comes from the Gulf of Mexico(the US sector) is used in the US.

Wow, that's news to me!

Any supporting evidence for this?

i don't have anything handy but i do know we import ~13m barrels of oil per day & consume ~22m barrels per day + it's my understanding gulf oil is refined on the gulf coast exclusively and primarily used for transportation fuels.

News to me too as I have heard many times, it is as likely to go to Mexico or China. Would like to see more evidence to support this.

Anyone that actually reads anymore, this one's good
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965

this is news to me, i would like to see evidence of this. now we do export refined products from gulf coast refineries to those countries. but i am not aware we ship crude oil from the gulf of mexico to mexico and china, or any other country.

lolz, good article, i posted a thread about it a while back. :thumbsup

i did a bit of snooping around, my #s were in fact off, we export ~40% of oil from the gulf in the form of refined oil products

http://www.americanprogress.org/issu...g/gulf_oil.jpg

ahh, found it

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pe...EEX_mbbl_m.htm



more:

The ?oil? we export is not in the form of crude, but rather is composed of diesel and other heavy fractional petroleum distillates. When crude is refined into its final products, the ratio of what is produced out is fixed (for the most part).
... what little raw crude oil the US exports goes exclusively to Canada. To further put this into perspective, in 2009 we exported a whopping 15.9 million barrels to Canada, or 0.82% of total US domestic oil production.

i was right, this is wrong.

here are the official #s of gulf coast oil production
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pe...0_mbblpd_a.htm

There are plenty of people who live on the Gulf Coast whose jobs are dependent on offshore drilling that likely would disagree you. :2 cents:

that judge was an idiot, course so are a lot of people!

I agree, but "common sense" goes out the window when you have a family to feed.

Or when you claim Israel was responsible for 9-11, or when you claim the Holocaust didn't happen or was exaggerated. :thumbsup

he's on a roll since he figured he gotcha'd me with the not living on the gulf coast thing.



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