Drilling Moratorium Devastating to Gulf
Tina Korbe /
Gulf Coast residents were in Washington last week to explain the high cost of President Obama’s oil drilling moratorium. The president’s policy, they said, halts more than energy exploration: It also hurts the coastal economy and the day-to-day lives of workers.
Their trip, which included briefings on Capitol Hill, was organized by Save U.S. Energy Jobs, a project of the American Energy Alliance.
“If I was president of the United States, I would not want to be remembered as a president who signed a moratorium that destroys jobs permanently, destroys families and the way they live, and wrecks an economy for years and years to come,” said Thomas Clements of Broussard, La.