The New Orleans Times Picayune reported Wednesday on a rally held in Lafayette, Louisiana, to protest the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to the article:
"About 15,000 people packed the Cajundome on the campus of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette as Gov. Bobby Jindal and a stream of speakers blasted the six-month moratorium declared after BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."
"...The offshore petroleum industry and companies that serve it employ about 100,000 people in Louisiana, according to the LSU Center for Energy Studies."
On June 23, rightwinggranny.com reported that the scientists originally consulted on the oil spill had not recommended the six-month moratorium (although the Obama Administration originally claimed that they had). The six-month moratorium will devastate the area's economy, increase America's dependence on foreign oil, and probably result in $7 per gallon gasoline prices at the pump within a year.
I hope the Obama Administration heard what the people who rallied in Lafayette were saying, but I am not optimistic.
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