http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1245964Reaction continues to pour in following the Obama administration's new drilling ban for oil in the Outer Continental Shelf.
The administration recently announced a seven-year ban on drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, as well as along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines, citing the BP oil spill as the reason.
But though the announcement is a virtual flip-flop of what the administration made known earlier this year, Dan Kish, senior vice president of policy at the Institute for Energy Research (IER), says the administration's decision is par for the course in terms of its energy policies.
Dan Kish (Inst. for Energy Research)"It's thoroughly consistent with this administration's approach toward domestic production of energy, which is to make it harder," Kish suggests. "And the result is going to be we're going to import more oil and have people working in other countries."
He goes on to report that IER president Tom Pyle has issued a statement saying: "It is now abundantly clear the administration and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will stop at nothing -- lost jobs, tax revenue, or a threat to national security -- to enforce their vendetta against domestic energy production. Despite promises made to Senator [Mary] Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and the thousands whose livelihood depends on energy development, they continue to pursue an 'all or nothing' approach to alternative energy that will do nothing more than weaken our economy, increase our dependence on foreign oil, and eliminate thousands of well-paying, secure American jobs."
Meanwhile, Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has made similar claims, adding that "President Obama is dishonestly pursuing policies that are the opposite of what he promised and that are against America's economic interests and opposed by a strong majority of Americans."
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