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Barack Obama would have you believe that he’s embraced “Drill, Baby, Drill!” as his new campaign slogan. Yesterday he announced “an expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration… in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs.” Sounds great, right? Well, as is always the case the Marxist deceiver has said one thing and plans on doing the exact opposite. According to research done by the Heritage Foundation, and the House Natural Resources Committee Republicans Obama’s “Drill, Baby, Drill” includes: canceling four lease sales off the Alaska coast – which were set to begin producing oil within the next two years, stalling development of mining off of the Virginia coast, and placing even more potential drilling sites off limits for at least seven more years. In fact, Obama’s  plan places over 13 billion of the known 14 billion barrels of oil and 41.49 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits.

Does this come as a surprise to you? It shouldn’t. This is the same Barack Obama that said “under my plan, of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Obama’s Energy Secretary said “somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” when Europeans were paying $8 per gallon. What Obama is really trying to do is pass his jobs killing, economy destroying, record-setting tax hike enviro-Marxist cap and tax bill using the language of something that the American people actually want. Sarah Palin summarized this Obama deception perfectly:

Behind the rhetoric lie new drilling bans and leasing delays; soon to follow are burdensome new environmental regulations.  Instead of “drill, baby, drill,” the more you look into this the more you realize it’s “stall, baby, stall.”

Tags: Barack Obama, Global Warming, Oil, Sarah Palin, Socialism