Obama is closing off more land to drilling than he is opening #tcot #teaparty

Feds aim to close off more lands to drilling, despite Obama remarks | The Daily Caller

http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/12/feds-aim-to-close-off-more-lands-to-drilling-despite-obama-remarks/

....."On Friday, the Obama administration’s Bureau of Land
Management announced it was opening up 677,000 acres
for oil shale drilling in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, and
also 130,000 for tar sands activities in Utah.
However, in doing so, the administration has closed off 1.6
million acres originally slated for shale development,
reports the Hill, despite the president touting his record of
expanding oil drilling on federal lands during the
campaign.
“We’ve opened up public lands. We’re actually drilling
more on public lands than in the previous administration
and my — the previous president was an oil man,”
President Barack Obama said during the second
presidential debate . “And natural gas isn’t just appearing
magically. We’re encouraging it and working with the
industry.”
“Once again, the president’s rhetoric on domestic energy
development is light years away from the real-world
regulations his administration implements,” said Dan Kish,
senior vice president for the Institute for Energy Research
, in a statement. “The President wasted no time between
a celebration in Chicago on Tuesday night and a return to
business as usual back in Washington.”...

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