alternative energy

Don’t Drill, Baby, Drill

Apr 30, 2010
Just a month after President Obama's rightward lunge into the realm of political appeasement known as offshore drilling, the administration reinstituted a ban on new drilling as it investigates the causes of the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Obama Lays Out Stimulus Plan

Jan 25, 2009
What's it going to take to jump-start the economy? How does almost a trillion dollars sound? That's the amount that President Barack Obama is considering for his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, which he introduced to the public in his weekly address on Saturday.

Bush: Lift the Ban on Offshore Drilling

Jun 19, 2008
President Bush called for a speedy end to the ban on offshore oil drilling in American coastal waters Wednesday, chiding his congressional challengers by declaring that there's "no excuse for delay" in lifting the "outdated and counterproductive" restrictions. However, some of his political opponents on this issue, like California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, are giving him heat from his own side of the political aisle.