Well, this is rich.
The Obama administration continues to dismiss out-of-hand even the
faintest possibility of allowing for more offshore oil-and-gas development in
the near future; their minds are intractably made up on that score, let the
fact that oil and gas have been just about the only major economic success
stories of the Obama presidency be damned. The administration has, however,
been pretty darn excited about their plans to instead focus their efforts on
leasing federal (i.e., taxpayers’) lands and waters to solar and wind companies
to further support their very specific and ideologically-driven dreams of
renewable energy development.
Virginia in particular would stand to benefit from
increased offshore-drilling permitting, but I suppose the Obama administration
felt they were providing plenty of solace by instead leasing over a hundred
thousand acres off of the coast of Virginia for offshore wind development. The
United States still doesn’t have a completed commercial offshore wind farm, you
see, and wouldn’t it just be so exciting to be a major player in pioneering the
path toward what the Obama administration has predetermined are the green jobs
and energies of the future? Continue
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