President Obama announced today that he is lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling off the Eastern Seaboard and the north slope of Alaska, but will bar any oil exploration in Bristol Bay Alaska region.
This is strange to becoming from a Democratic president whose party lambasted President Bush for eight years once he proposed his energy policy back in 2001, now this president wants to drill in almost every area that the previous administration proposed except in the Bristol Bay area.
Everyone realizes that the time has come to take America off the dependence from fossil fuels, but at the same time the technology and infrastructure is not at a level where everyone thinks it is. More investment needs to be developed in alternative fuels but for the present moment we need to develop our own domestic fuel industry. This creates jobs here; high paying jobs!
Too often e fail to heed the warning of President Eisenhower in his farewell address when he stated,” Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
Careful consideration must be taken into account of those who have alternative agenda regarding oil exploration, and realize we have to drill for oil at the same time invest in alternative fuel sources that make this nation less dependent on rogue regimes for energy needs.
The president is taking a bold stance, but I hope he is not doing this appease his Republican opposition just to get Cap & Trade passed which is stalled in the Senate.
Time will tell!
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