Jobs. Obama says, “NONE FOR YOU!”

While everyone was rightly up in arms over the Supreme Court decision, the Obama Administration released its plan on developing the energy resources in the Outer Continental Shelf.

Turns out, they’re against it:

“President Obama’s offshore charade continues today with the formal announcement of the 2012-2017 leasing plan for the outer continental shelf. With this plan, the administration reinstates the 27 year moratorium that was lifted in 2008, and turns its back on potentially enormous energy resources that could provide jobs and energy security for America. For more than three years, the Obama administration has consistently reversed bipartisan efforts to open America’s vast offshore resources for energy development.

“The president has cancelled lease sales, delayed others, and imposed a unilateral executive embargo on the oil resources that our most promising public lands could provide. With 98 percent of the U.S. offshore currently unleased for energy exploration, Secretary Salazar has finalized this plan to continue the administration’s war against affordable energy. In the end, Americans will pay more for the energy they need.

“While President Obama and Interior Secretary Salazar claim an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy, today’s announced plan continues to give the American people access to a mere fraction of the offshore resources they own. If not for this president and his policies, Americans could access more than 200 years of oil supply under our feet and off our shores.

“Millions of Americans are still looking for jobs. The Gulf Coast economy has yet to recover from President Obama’s moratorium on offshore drilling. President Obama has signaled today that he has no regard for our energy future, nor the jobs that a sensible, long-term plan for offshore development would create.”

The idea of an oil boom creating jobs isn’t fiction, like the Presiden’t promise of 5 million new green energy jobs in the next decade. Right now in North Dakota, there are more jobs than there are unemployed. In fact, there are so many jobs, McDonalds is offering hiring bonuses because they can’t get people to work there.

But by all means, let’s keep America dependent on foreign sources of oil and our people unemployed while we create this green energy panacea.

Hat Tip: Lonely Conservative

UPDATE:

Just because, I looked up how many people work on an off shore oil rig and what a job like that pays:

It may be dangerous, difficult work, but oil drillers are well compensated for the job: In 2011 the average salary for rig workers and other industry personnel was $99,175.
That number includes fat paychecks for the highly skilled, like $235,586 for a “drilling consultant” and $139,868 for a “reservoir engineer”, according to Rigzone, an industry information provider that compiled the figures.

But even for someone with less than a year’s experience the average wage was $66,923.

That’s for the people on the rig and from what I’m told, that could be hundreds of people. Then you have all the infrastructure needed to support it, like trucking, food services, local businesses.

This drilling ban is hurting Americans.