No, No, No, You Can't Drill Here No Mo'

Hey Nancy, how many jobs does this cost us?

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to announce today that 77 parcels of land which were up for lease in Utah to oil companies for exploration will be withdrawn.

This follows the usual storyline. President Bush opened up the area for exploration, the environmental groups swooped in and started filing lawsuits, finally found a sympathetic judge, and now 110,000 acres are once again off limits.

The Bush administration conducted the lease sale in December, but environmental groups went to court to block the winning bids encompassing roughly 110,000 acres near pristine areas such as Nine Mile Canyon, Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument.

Just before Bush left office last month, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina issued a restraining order on the lease sales, postponing the final transactions until he could hear arguments on the merits of the case.

You do understand that the Democrat approach to America's energy problems is not to make us energy independent, but rather it is to reduce us to a zero energy consumption country. They are going to do this by passing ridiculous legislation in congress which will impose impossible emission standards on businesses and power manufacturing plants along with autos, draconian so-called CAFE standards, using their proxies in the courts and in the environmental movement to tie up any attempts to conduct exploration and recovery of any fossil fuels as well as blocking the construction of nuclear and coal power plants.

I long for the day when other states quit selling energy to California so that a permanent blackout descends upon the state and maybe, finally, those ignorant dunces in Hollyweird, along with their environmental goofballs who all worship at the Temple of the Goracle, will finally get a clue.