Fox (2006)"House Votes to End Offshore Oil Drilling Ban" - Courtesy Bobby Jindal

[TomCADem]

It seems like only a few years ago that Bobby Jindal was attacking President Obama's weak willingness to consider offshore oil drilling. Heck, Bobby Jindal was even more enthusiatic about offshore oil drilling than John McCain! But, courtesy of the corporate media, you have no major media asking about Bobby Jindal's recent past outspoken role supporting offshore oil driling. Heck, Bobby Jindal's environmental appointees are members of the American Petroleum Institute!

Let me put it this way. Even the pro-drilling at all cost Bush administration, was not ready to embrace Bobby Jindal's vision. Now, this past is ignored, as the media rallies to portray Bobby Jindal as a stalwart defender of the environmemt.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201703,00.html

WASHINGTON — Congress has taken a major step toward allowing oil and gas drilling in coastal waters that have been off limits for a quarter-century.

Still, a battle looms in the Senate over the issue. And the Bush administration's support for the legislation, which was approved Thursday by a 232-187 vote in the House, is lukewarm.

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The House vote was a huge victory for Pombo, two Louisiana lawmakers — Republican Bobby Jindal and Democrat Charlie Melancon — and Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., who spearheaded the drive to lift the moratorium.

Only six weeks ago, a proposal by Peterson to open coastal waters to natural gas development fell 14 votes short.

This time, they included a provision that would allow states to keep the moratorium in place if they opposed drilling and changed the revenue sharing so that states' share of royalties would soar eventually as much as 75 percent.

The Gulf states where most U.S. offshore energy resources are being tapped, now get less than 5 percent of the royalties. For example, Louisiana's royalties would go from $32 million last year to a total of $8.6 billion over the next 10 years — and even higher after that.