Offshore drilling put on hold

Yeah Obama, let's just do everything wrong!

Like this is really a suprise from the new CHANGE administration thats going to deliver us from dependency on oil from people who hate us. The great CHANGE master will sweet talk Iran and others to be our friends. Oh and don't forget how many JOBS that the drilling would create,(did someone say JOBS!) Oh yea, our new masser has the answer with a trillion dollars of OUR and OUR great great grand childrens money. Oink, Oink, Oink should be the new tune for the new CHANGE masser, yes masser, right away masser you know best. NOT!!
And don't forget that he has told us that yes the sky is falling and will surely distroy us all if we don't pass the oink bill

great great....nothing like restricting new commerce when we're in the worst economy of the last 80 years

go bobama

Now what will Sarah Palin chant? No more idiotic "drill, baby, drill" ... and with oil under $40 a barrel down from $140, Palin is facing an enormous budget deficit in Alaska since most of the state's revenue is from oil and gas taxes. How will she balance her budget now? Oh, I know -- she'll cut taxes!! That'll work dontcha think?

They talk about energy independence, but then do everything to stop it. The Dems are very hypocritical and I wish people would start paying attention so that we could throw the bums out.

Idiots ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This administration is doing it's best to keep the average white man living check to check, while using what little we have extra, to pay for the poor and lazy.

Thank you America, this country absolutely sucks!!

This doesnt surprise me at all. Another campaign promise foiled down the drain by these liberal crooks. Lets wait until oil is $140 a barrel again. Another reactive stance in a proactive world. disgusting.

Bravo!

I have great hopes for this administration, but this action and further pollicies like this will be a problem for us.

Everyone else can drill off our coast exept us!? We will never be energy independent!

And you stupid liberals will be the first to whine when the gas price hits $4 per gallon again. Can't believe you're in the gene pool.

Here they go!

The next time gasoline hits $4.00/gallon....Please remember, which political party has stood in the way of developing our energy resources time and time again!

BJ Clinton vetoed ANWAR, and now The ONE puts offshore oil off limits!!

Glad to see this happening--the Bushies were determined to do as much damage as possible on their way out, hoping the Obama Administration would neither notice nor care (and apparently also hoping the American public would just go along with "Drill, baby, drill"). We need less oil and far more responsible environmental policy!

Here we go again...Congress is determined that we will eventually be strangled by foreign oil purchases...They are ignorant of the facts...We (the USA) need to
be independent of these offshore sellers of oil..
Get with the program before we literally spend ourselves broke..

Geez, some energy policy. Putting jobs and energy needed for our economy beyond reach, again.

You must be kidding me. Gas prices are already on the rise again.

They will just study this to death again. Then when gas prices hit $4-$5, we will all wonder why we have not started drilling, who is to blame and what are we going to do about it all over again. In the meatime, we continue to transfer ship loads of America dollars to the oil producing countries.

It seems apparent that the new resident of the White House and his slithery cabinet members are fully and solely interested in putting our country out of business, and making us even more dependent upon foreign oil along with hugely increased taxes. Today's announcement that offshore drilling is out. Treasury launched today a $3-trillion anchor onto our economy. Alternative energy include wind and solar so long as it is green. Whatever happened to nuclear energy? Compressed Natural Gas? Hydrogen?

Drill Baby Drill..
Now Obama has stolen our jobs; ripped off our 401 accounts, and is now planning on making sure we have $8.00 a gallon gasoline.

He and his wife eat $100 a pound steak at the White House. What a shame...this is not hope ....it is outright thievery.

Here we go...the great move to energy independence being directed by the environmental lobbyists. when will we ever learn. "Change that will kill us"

Thank God! Its about time. Our environement needs to be a priority now more than ever. The National Resource Defense Coalition had great points when they argued against Bush's offshore drilling.

Without doubt an ill omen for the next 4 years. I imagine that after screwing in the more energy bulbs we are done thus saving the need for additional oil. Lets continue giving it to the arabs and Hugo Chavez, That to me does not make any sense.

one person should not stop drilling in these areas!!!! all the policies that obama ran for prez on seem to be starting the same old same old !!! we need to be free from some of the imported oil !!! i am sick and tired of these no count politicians!!!the hell with people let save a dam fishing ground!!! you are nuts massachusetts!!!

you must be a tree hugger!! thanks for being fair to post all comments!!

Isn't anybody listening. Oil is not the answer to our energy problems. Destroying sensitive fishing areas for a little oil makes absolutely no sense. Big oil still controls our politicians including, I hate to say, Obama.

"Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called for more study and more input from states and coastal communities................"

More talk and no action....
Action would mean Jobs that PRODUCE domestic oil. Action would be a step in the direction to help to solve energy issues. How short sighted we are now that oil is dropped in price. Would this would have happened if oil was still over $100 a barrel? Nope... Geeeze

Read the speech link above. Finally the change we voted for. If we don't change our dependence on non-renewable sources of energy we are doomed. Just the thought of getting off of our dependence on energy sources that foul the atmosphere and make us hostage to Middle East theocracies is liberating. Thank you Obama for having a brain.

I guess "W" was trying to put his medical stamp on the fishing industry by adding more Oil into the food chain in order to increase our "Fish Oil"? Intake. How many more despicable acts does this guy have to try & approve? This just goes beyond the pale of reason... and to think the Obama Administration has only yet begun to realize & try to halt the damaging regulations that "W" had signed before his time of Absolute Power was finally up.

you republicans are a sick bunch. you all bring race into every argument and fail to realize that your boy george and your party's lackadaisical oversight brought us this mess! when will you think on your own and stop repeating the rally crys of a street lady mongering, pill popping lunatic with a microphone?

Hey obamablows you eat seafood? If so that's where most of our local fish comes from. There isn't enough oil out there to make a difference. So get rid of the jobs of fishermen to replace them with oilmen? Educate yourself. Georges Bank is an amazing ecosystem that can't afford to be tainted anymore than it is.

the last 8 years of Bush policies are what put our county in the poor shape its currently in. Not Obama. Lets not for get that. I do, however disagree with putting offshore drilling on hold. Screw that. Drill baby drill...before some other countries get to it. If we dont pull that oil, someone else definately will. So the whole protect the environment arguement doesnt mean a thing. Lets get our people working and get OUR oil to OUR market.

Thank you my oil stocks took a beating last year.

Great, decision - Not!! We will end our dependence on oil when a better technology comes along and it is cheaper to do business using something other than oil. You empty headed environmentalists really don't think it took government intervention for people to start driving cars instead of riding horses do you? Cars were a better technology and people (not bureaucrats) chose them over horses.

In the mean time we now have our government artificially restricting supply. The people that hate us most will profit from this idiotic decision. And when gasoline hits $4.00 all the boneheads will complain about the greedy oil companies.

Yes, 29-- we're all going to live on the 4% of our current energy supplid by 'big solar' and 'big wind'-- how long do you think it will take to go from 4% to 100%, given the 4% has taken 20 years? In the meantime we will be buying oil from our enemies.

Thanks, Obama, for living in fantasy land-- the same fantasy land where paying billions of dollars to Acorn and teacher's unions somehow stimulates the economy! Yes, 29-- good luck on getting your car to run on 'just the thought'!!

Oil, like any fossil fuel, is finite. Our energy independence and future is not in fossil fuels but rather in renewable energy sources. I know everyone is thinking that drilling is the solution, but it is not.
I worked in the oil industry at one time (during the early 70s) and the industry knew that they had finite sources but also knew they had a monopoly -- there were no alternatives when it came to operating vehicles. So, did they really make an effort to do research and development to come up with alternatives? No, they did not. They were simply "pushers" selling what they had and making sure no one else developed an alternative.

Has anyone even considered that the trillion dollars Obama is now borrowing-- twice the deficit of Bush's last year that the dems politicked over-- has no way of being paid for? When oil is $150 per barrel which it will be, as soon as the economy eventually picks up-- does it make sense to leave billions of dollars of our oil to the Chinese to drill? The people who think the oil will somehow stay there--- China is already drilling off the coast of Florida. They will be in the deep international waters off our coasts, drilling the oil that we are 'too special' to drill-- and laughing as our country goes broke. Meanwhile China's CO2 release will dwarf ours-- nothing gained except a few years of fantasy for the Obamites.

I'm seventy five , still working every day , and as I've gotten older I thought I had become more liberal in my thinking. Turns out , "I JUST DON'T GIVE A SHIT!"

Obobo and his henchman Salazar will contribute to the "War on Prosperity" by encouraging higher energy costs as another strategy to promote Socialism in the USA. The more economic pain they can apply without the total collapse of the economy: the greater chance for Obama to expand Government control and deepen dependency of the Democratic supporters. Obobo is NOT good for America!!

Obobo and his henchman Salazar will contribute to the "War on Prosperity" by encouraging higher energy costs as another strategy to promote Socialism in the USA. The more economic pain they can apply without the total collapse of the economy: the greater chance for Obama to expand Government control and deepen dependency of the Democratic supporters. Obobo is NOT good for America!!

Hey 37 do you really believe that is the responsibility of the oil companies to find a source of energy to put themselves out of business? Silly headed thought! When there is a better thing than oil invented and or discovered somebody will make a fortune selling it. Until then - Drill Baby Drill

RE: "Now Obama has stolen our jobs; ripped off our 401 accounts, and is now planning on making sure we have $8.00 a gallon gasoline. He and his wife eat $100 a pound steak at the White House. What a shame...this is not hope ....it is outright thievery."
Obama's been in office for one month and achieved all that? Do you really think the former president was eating $.99 Mcdonalds cheeseburgers and looking out for the common man rather than his personal/family/friends interests in the oil industry? Quit whining, we've already endured 2 terms of idiocracy.
Also, RE:the posting from AreadyFedUP. Use spellcheck you ignorant racist.

Yeah let's go drill offshore and ruin our best fishing grounds for a solid 6 month supply of oil..........I heard there's a couple gallons beneath the Blue Hills, let's go blow that up and get it too ! Nonsensical Republican argument. The only people who would benefit from offshore deepwater drilling are the same old rich oil boys.........

Believe it or not the want to keep retiring oil rigs in place off Santa Barbara because the structure improves the fishing! Why NE fisherman are against drilling i'll never know, but why listen to the people who fished the place out?
We get no fish, no oil and no jobs. Google oil rig fishing and you'll see.

Just move into the city and take the public transportaion, walk (for your health), or drive short distance. People want to live in the suburbs, drive SUV, pretty much do everything that drives up demand and then complain about gas price.

dont blame me, i didnt vote for the dope. this is just the beginning of the damage he is going to cause this country.

Democrtas are doing their best to destroy this great country. I say we vote them all out in 2010, 2012, and 2014 and make this country great again. Can we clone Reagan?

For all of you that made "comments", you should send a copy to your congressman. Maybe eventually, they will get the idea. (Wishful thinking). Start pushing for Term Limits and get these bums out of office.

Ok, lets just try to remember the facts here. The oil companies have access to millions of acres of federal land they can (but have strategically not started to) drill on already. These lands contain enough oil to keep America self sufficient for the next twelve years. This year, Exxon Mobil set a new american record for profits by a corporation even with the steep downturn in gas prices in the fourth quarter. Exxon Mobil broke their own record that they set last year. Profits grew as gas prices grew.
So, do you really think Exxon Mobil really wants there to be plenty of cheap gas for the consumer? They don't even care if America is energy self-sufficient as long as they are smashing their profit records. One reason they might want America to be energy efficient is so they could totally control the production of gas and it's profits. But do you really think Exxon Mobil wants to create jobs? They want to create as few jobs as possible to make as much money possible for their entitled shareholders. If they really had the American consumer / worker in their best interest, they would re-invest some of these staggering profits into building new, cleaner, safer and more efficient oil refineries for the next generation. That would put people to work and be a show of good faith. Or if they wanted to started to drilling, they could also do that, they have had lands with proven deep reserves that they could have been drilling on for over 10 years. But when your setting new profits records, spending a few million here and there on lobbying to confuse the issues at hand, and using politics as a tool to maintain the status quo is a much more convenient and less expensive undertaking than a new drilling operation. I'll put in black and white for those who have commented who seem to be confused on the issue (and for those who can only see issues as black and white.) THE OIL COMPANIES DO NOT WANT MORE DRILLING RIGHT NOW. They are rolling in it! Life is good right now at the oil companies. If they were really truly concerned with a shortage of oil, or if they were concerned AT ALL about the American consumer, they would have already started drilling operations on the many oil resources they have at hand.

I am very proud of some of the voters of Massachusetts ( for a change) who have finally stood up to the fat-cat democrats by voicing their opinion about this recent step taken by the Obama administration. True, we knew they would do this, but it is refreshing to see some Bostonians voice very strongly their opposition to the move. Hang in there Boston, you will have another chance in four years!

I have noticed a pattern... everything that the Democrats do wrong... the media blames Bush anyway. So no wonder Obama is moving forward with all these failed policies and decisions.... who is going to hold him accoutable? The press? NOT. Minority voters? NOT. Left wingers/socialists/communists/anarchistst? NOT ... they love him more than ever.

So when the price of oil goes back up to $4/gal ... Obama can now blame Bush again? Is that how it works?

I got two words for you areadyfedUP:

HURRICANE KATRINA!

The next hurricane will just wipe out any offshore drilling we do, and set us back again and again, whereas renewable energy is a win-win proposition.

Also you may want to go back and finish 8th grade so you can spell better.

There is not enough oil to give us "energy independence". The oil will go on the world market and will not be "exclusively" ours. We will do as much good via conservation,hybrid cars, and new mileage goals for all vehicles. Furthermore the use of dirty fuels is only accelerating the environmental problems. Better to raise taxes on gasoline now and use the taxes to accelerate alternative fuel sources. The answer lies in solar energy using solar panels, new electric rates for off hour usage and steam generation for power plants and electric cars. It is obvious that much of the citizenry is completely misinformed and blaming politicians for the problems that we have caused.

There is a movement to keep retiring oil rigs off the coast of santa barbara in place as they are regular fish farms. You would think the fisherman here against offshore drilling would know this but they are the ones who fished out the place. We get no oil, no fish, no jobs. What else is new? Google oil rig fishing

The only place they are drilling is in your POCKETS for change

mnhusker4
There will be an upcoming clone of Regan by the name of Bobby Jindal, Also this idea is as stupid as it gets. There is plenty of oil left and we are not just going to change overnight to different sources so we are going to have to bridge our way there and drilling without the intent of it being a long term answer is the way to go about it.

I'm surprised so many anti-liberals read this pro-liberal paper.

Republicans sitting at home reading a liberal paper with their morning coffee while Democrats are on the early morning bus reading the typical subway size tabloid published by the right-wing Rupert Murdouch.

What?

Wow Obama, I think he is just "Changing" Stuff for the sake of variety. Even the good laws, he changes, just so he can see his name in some History Book 40 years down the Road. The Liberals Spew out environmental propoganda that really isn't true, just to save a couple of fishes out of the Trillions in the sea. FIsh are people too! They have a right to live! Oh please, if you love fish so much, go live with them, you Foolish Liberals.