Judge lifts Barack Obama’s moratorium on oil drilling, claims that he mislead the American people

  A federal judge has lifted Barack Obama’s moratorium on drilling in the Gulf. After the BP oil spill, Barack Obama ordered that all drilling in the Gulf be stopped even though these other companies did nothing to warrant having their businesses ground to a halt and their employees put out of work.

  In his decision, Martin L.C. Feldman stated that Barack Obama never proved that a ban on all oil drilling was needed, misstated the opinions of the experts that were consulted because these experts did not support a ban on oil drilling, and mislead the American people.

Much to the government’s discomfort and this Court’s uneasiness, the summary also states that ‘the recommendations contained in this report have been peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.’ As the plaintiffs, and the experts themselves, pointedly observe, this statement was misleading

  Barack Obama decided early on that instead of providing the necessary leadership during this crisis, he would use it as a political tool in order to push for cap and trade instead.

   Part of this plan included stopping all oil drilling in the Gulf in an attempt to drive up the price of oil in order to get the American people to support a climate change bill. He mislead the American people (where have we heard that before) and the judge in this case has confirmed that Barack Obama mislead the people.

  While this decision is great news, and a victory for the American people, this story is not over. The Obama regime has already stated that they will appeal this decision. Barack Obama is hell-bent on stopping oil companies from drilling in the Gulf and he will not stop until he succeeds.

  While pushing his political agenda as oils spills into the Gulf, the president seems to be missing the human element to this story. People are affected by the president’s rash decision to stop all oil drilling in the Gulf in ways that Barack Obama either didn’t conceive or didn’t care about. He has his eye on the prize, and that prize is cap and trade. The end justifies the means in his book, and if Obama has to hurt a few of the “small people,” so be it.

  Thankfully we have at least one judge who sees this, hopefully as the appeal moves forward there will be more.