Its Reagan's fault!

He imposed the moratorium that limited new offshore drilling permits. And GHW Bush added his own Executive Order.

Two wacky environmental extremists!

You gotta love the classic Palin/Fox "blame the environmentalists" argument.

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For the ill-informed......You cant enforce what no longer exists and the near full repeal of Glass Steagall left little in the way of banking/financial services regulation.

Oh, yea, let's drag the new take over by this Administration of the next industry to fall to the socialist agenda of George Soro's!

Hows about you two shitheads take the fucking nonsense somewhere else.

What nonsense is that?

The fact that the moratorium limiting permits to drill on the OCS goes back to 1981?

Or the fact that the Financial Services Modernization Act effectively repealed Glass Steagall and tore down the wall between commercial banking and investment banking?

Welll shithead, I see this as normal political banter. Tell us shithead why we should not have this exchange of banter on a political thread. Please shithead, tell us...

It is apparent you enjoy each other immensely but your banter is destroying discourse.

You forgot to add IMHO... because that is all it is.

And Griff, you neglected to answer my question....what nonsense is that?

Sucks man. I was interested...

What a load of crap.

Classicman makes a comment:

...their requests to drill in shallower water were refused. Something about environmental concerns. hmmm

And I point out that it goes back to Reagan's moratorium.

along with MHO that the blame the environmentalist game is a load of crap as well.

Who fucking cares?! Not everyone plays team politics, some actually want to DISCUSS THE ISSUES. It was Reagan that offered up the last round of amnesty for illegal aliens - doesn't stop you from carping that the conservatives are all opposed to it.

Please dont put words in my mouth or crap that you want to DISCUSS the ISSUES and I (we) dont.

IMHO, both Merc and I have toned down the rhetoric.

If you dont like what/how I (or we) post......ignore it.

Close to shore drilling has been limited for awhile, probably 'not in my back yard' and 'out of sight, out of mind' thinking. Whereas out in deep water, it couldn't possibly mess up the shore areas, could it?:rolleyes:

Peace.

Yep for those reasons as well. It originally started back in 1982, when the Democratically led Congress restricted more and more areas through appropriations.
Through this annual process, Congress chose to deny the funding necessary to conduct leasing of new offshore areas to oil companies. The restrictions were renewed annually. This went on until recently through both R & D led congresses until the price for oil skyrocketed.

There have been several legislative efforts to eliminate them over the last couple years by the R's, but none none have been successful. They have been rebuked by the environmentally conscious D's and their majority in the house.