Comments on: Oregon enviros miffed at Obama’s drilling plan /news/2010/03/31/obamas-drilling-miffs-oregon-enviros-2/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:14:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: P L O Y /news/2010/03/31/obamas-drilling-miffs-oregon-enviros-2/#comment-99202 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:47:15 +0000 /?p=49442#comment-99202 This is a well timed political maneuver. Nothing more, nothing less.
Ob has read the tea leaves and wants to cool the center-right even though it will bring wrath from a segment of the left. Just a matter of applying political leverage at the right time. Before the election it was all about clean energy. That message resonated with the entire left. Now, it’s about robbing power from the energy debate before the coming election. Timing is everything. Ask Ob’s squeak toy Gibbs. He’ll tell you so with a straight face as long as the cameras are rolling.

We could have been accessing huge reserves of oil & NG long ago without the offshore debate. Don’t believe me? Google “USGS Bakken”

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