https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/12/01/obama-administration-renews-drilling-ban-of-course-it-did/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:38:40 -0400<![CDATA[Contra the Washington Post, the seven-year moratorium on new Atlantic, Pacific, and Eastern Gulf of Mexico oil drilling that will be announced today does not particularly mean that we&#8217;re going to allow new drilling in any of the other areas available to us, either*.  It merely means that these were the bans that the administration had to get on with right now before an annoyed Republican-controlled House &#8211; and a deeply frightened Democrat-controlled Senate &#8211; started asking pointed questions.  Well, one question, really: Why are we making suboptimal domestic policy decisions based on the belief structure of a very strange, and frankly not very pleasant, fringe religion?]]>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:45:43 -0500<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/12/01/obama-administration-renews-drilling-ban-of-course-it-did-n37161