A Little Sugar With Your Poison?

Yesterday, Obama announced that he will allow oil exploration in some previously barred offshore locations. But, this is just a political ruse. He's only allowing exploration, now, and the question of whether or not any actual drilling will ever really take place is highly questionable. In any event, the time of his announcement is intended to give America a little sugar to go along with the big dose of poison that he will serve us up; later this or the next week. And, of course, with Obama, timing is everything.

The poison that I am talking about is the fact that Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous gas that will be subject to regulations beginning at the start of 2011. That means, from that point forward, the EPA will be able to regulate and fine anyone and any business who, in their estimation, is emitting too much carbon dioxide. This is Obama's attempt to force America into compliance with the stupidity of Global Warming mandates. It's also an override of Congress' inability to pass Cap and Trade legislation. It also means that, coupled with health care reform, businesses will again be forced to shed jobs in the face of higher operational costs.

As far as offshore drilling is concerned, Obama has no intention of actually allowing any new drilling for oil in those areas. If he was truly concerned about finding new oil sources in order to wean America off of its dependence on foreign oil, there are plenty of existing, inland locations that are ripe for drilling right now but have been put off bounds by Obama and the Democrats. Instead, he only specified these new offshore locations because they are 50 to 150 miles off our coasts and, as a consequence, would force drilling to be attempted at extreme and very costly depths. Additionally, Obama also knows that he can keep any actual drilling at bay because they can force years of environmental studies to be conducted before it would ever start. By then, most potential oil exploration companies would have just given up and gone elsewhere where overcoming environmental regulations would be less difficult.

As with everything that Obama does, nothing is done for the true benefit of America. Here's a guy that had campaigned for over a year on no drilling for oil; either onshore or offshore. Now, we are supposed to believe he's suddenly pro-oil? Or, pro-atomic energy? Instead, it's easier to believe that he's a con-man who constantly plays political games in order to ultimately put forth another piece of his intentionally far-left agenda. Even the environmental groups know this to be true; otherwise you'd be seeing rallies and picketing all over this country in opposition to this latest announcement.