The most mind-bogglingly stupid Administration, ever:
The Department of the Interior has frozen oil and gas development on 60 of 77 contested drilling sites in Utah, saying the process of leasing the land was rushed and badly flawed.
The 77 government-owned parcels, covering some 100,000 acres in eastern and southern Utah, were leased in the last weeks of the Bush administration. But the leases were immediately challenged by conservation groups…
“Rushed and badly flawed” means “Bush did it, and so we’re going to stop it, no matter what.” Even if they were rushed and badly flawed (something I very much doubt), we still need the dratted oil and natural gas and we can’t sit there waiting until all environmentalist groups are satisfied before we drill…because they never will be satisfied.
Want to know why you’re paying nearly $3 a gallon for gas during the worst recession since the 1930s? Because of idiot actions like this – actions which prevent drilling, transporting and refining oil and natural gas. Because of a few kooks who have the ear of the Administration, every single American – especially poor Americans – will pay a price.
Just disgusting.
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