February 09, 2010
Especially when it comes to oil drilling and the jobs that will follow.
In April of 2009, during a discussion about offshore exploration in San Francisco, Salazar said that President Obama directed him to “to make sure that we have an open and transparent government” and that “these are not decisions that are going to be made behind closed doors.” Salazar went on to say that President Obama wanted to make sure that DOI was “maximizing the opportunity for the public to give us guidance on what it is that they want to do.”
Yet, more than four months after the comment period ended, the Department of the Interior has failed to make any public announcement about the results, even though sources have told American Solutions for months the comments show a 2-1 advantage in support of offshore drilling.
It took American Solutions almost four months and the power of the Freedom of Information Act to finally uncover indirect confirmation that, out of over 530,000 comments submitted, pro-drilling comments outnumbered anti-drilling comments by a 2-1 margin.
In an email dated October 27, 2009, Liz Birnbaum, director of the Minerals Management Service, informs other Interior officials that a preliminary tabulation of the results of the comment period had not yet gone to Secretary Salazar, adding “{so} the Secretary can honestly say in response to any questions that he’s {sic} has not yet seen the analysis of the comments – staff is still working on it. I did, however, confirm to him the 2-1 split that these guys {at American Solutions}are emphasizing.”
Yaknow, I get the feeling Obama and his crew really don not care how the people feel about oil drilling and jobs. But that's just me.
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After years of patiently explaining to us retards we still don't realize that drilling and using oil is bad.
Why, I remember when they told us about how Prudhoe Bay was going to be an ecological nightmare, littered with the skeletons of dead caribou.
I mean, just because the caribou herds increased and you always find them and other mammals cuddling up to the heated pipeline in winter, they were still right.
Cuz oil is bad. It leads to increased standard of living and people actually thinking, gasp!, they're as good as our political, social, intellectual and moral betters.
I used to think they were commies, now I just think they're luddites, thinking of a better time when man lived in harmony with nature.
Just because that's never actually happened doesn't mean it shouldn't have happened.
And isn't that what really matters?
Posted by: Veeshir at February 09, 2010 12:55 PM (Yxu/y)
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