New Offshore Drilling Moratorium Ordered by Obama Administration

first, people are saying: "Don't drill in my backyard;" then they're opposed to foriegn oil.. cant have it both ways. Its a shame that people may lose their jobs; I wish they could be transferred or moved to another facility. The problem still lies in the fact that if this happens again not only will it cripple but out-do what safeguards were in place and then we may never recover for much longer decades to come. Its a shame that people keep saying dont vote dem/repub... everyone should vote with their minds and hearts about whats best represented for them not by what people say. It has to be in your interest to vote for whatever party favors your interests.

The Gulf represents 10% of the U.S. GDP so many thousands of jobs will be lost on the rigs, and many thousands of supporting jobs will also be lost.

It would be foolish to resume drilling far off shore without learning what happened in the BP disaster. The folks screaming DRILL, DRILL, DRILL will be the first ones looking for the federal government to rescue them when the next disaster occurs. Fortunately the Obama administration has a little more sense.

The first moratrorium was struck down first by a federal judge then a three judge court and the Obama answer is to issue an new moratorium. What do they call people that defy court orders? This moratorium is going to hurt the economy and the oil business but when Obama tries to push Cap and Tax legislation the people are going to realize what he has been after since the beginning of the spill and they will become really angry.

THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN TO INSURE WE ARE COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON FOREIGN OIL CONTINUES. UNEMPLOYMENT WILL SOON REACH 12%...all Gulf residents cast your votes against all Democrats in the NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.

What a great idea! Lets have a recession, raise taxes and then shut down the most lucrative jobs in the south eastern United States!
Please forgive me, I was OK when he got elected, I actually thought it might be good for the country to have the Demicans in office after the Republicrats botched it.

Re elect no one, regardless of party. Lets fire 'em all until they remember who they work for!

A story about capped wells from the associated press states that there are over 27,000 capped wells in the gulf some more than 50 years old and nobody is monitoring any of them. There are also over 2,000 temporarily capped wells, and that the deepwater horizon was in the process of capping this well when the accident occured. Why do they temporarily cap wells? to keep oil off the market until prices rise what else. All of you drill baby drill fanatics remember they were going to cap a well that is presently spewing a million and a half gallons a day till they could gouge us some more. 92% of the north slope in alaska has been leased yet nobody's drilling in fact BP is going to sell it's leases to pay their bills Why aren't they drilling? they didn't lease them because they couldn't drill there. BP makes 45 million a day profit I guess they don't want to make to much.

One thing about it , unemployment is their top priority !

And today the first of the deep water rigs is leaving the Gulf...Good job Mr. President. I know all the newly unemployed American oil workers are thanking you.