Time to Lift Ban on Offshore Drilling

Gulf region lawmakers are demanding an end to the moratorium on offshore oil drilling imposed by the Obama administration, saying the cost to workers’ livelihoods exceeds the risk of another spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Leaders of America’s largest oil companies Tuesday defended the safety of, and necessity for, continued deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Speaking before a Congressional panel investigating the ongoing oil leak from the wreckage of BP’s Deepwater Horizon.

Texas Republicans in the House are pushing back against the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore deepwater drilling, and they’re using enough rhetorical flourishes to make a high school English teacher proud. In a press conference today decrying the economic affects of the drilling ban, lawmakers offered a bevy of analogies to explain the ongoing situation in the Gulf of Mexico.

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