Thursday, June 10, 2010

Louisiana Politicians Call for End on Drilling Ban

It seems to be by bipartisan margins as well.

Louisiana lawmakers have railed against the moratorium, saying it could put more than 100,000 people out of work, shutter businesses and destroy livelihoods. A bill asking the administration to shorten the moratorium passed the Legislature unanimously.

But persuading the administration to take such action could prove to be extraordinarily difficult at a time when globs of oil are fouling marshes and beaches, images of oil-soaked birds are a fixture in the news and no apparent end to the spill is in sight.

I have to agree with one lawmaker that calls it grounding all airplanes in the US because one of them crashed. If they have to do a safety audit of all the blow-out preventers then we better get a progress report soon. If they aren't doing that and just stopped deep water drilling to limit political damage then Obama needs to get out of the way and let these people get back to work.

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