Year After Oil Spill, Obama Energy Policy Endangers Economy

The Heritage Foundation and the Institute for Energy Research traveled to Harvey, LA, to film Leslie Bertucci, owner of R and D Enterprises, for this oil spill anniversary video. Bertucci welcomed us to her warehouse with a weary smile, handed us hard hats and cheerfully guided us through her equipment yard, even as she explained the difficulties she's endured since the spill -- most especially as a result of the offshore drilling moratorium and the subsequent slowdown in deepwater permits.

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[vakeraj]

These people aren't even asking for a handout.... they're just asking for the right to work!

[Slipknotyk06]

This is why we need to reform the Department of the Interior, and eliminate the Department of Energy

[GeneSoskyhWTE]

we can heal the world by switching to unlimited and free quantum power.

peace

[Zach1740]

Obama's job killing policies in action

[kbar8888]

Great video. I remember something Milton Friedman said in 1979. He said, "If the Opec countries had hired our own energy regulators to be THEIR agents, they couldn't have done a better job. But they got them for free." I could care less what the goals of this administration is, but the results of their actions and inactions is to enrich Opec while starving American energy workers, and increase the energy costs of every American. What's that saying by the road to hell and good intentions?

[MegaRackattack]

The hope was only hype

[MegaRackattack]

@abarzilai664 You are 100 percent right.

[MegaRackattack]

Respond to this video...  By the way, this video may only be 3 minutes long, but it is the result of many people, much research and tons of time spent getting the facts first, many hours of interviews and footage. I commend the folks that made it for their tireless work and effort to put a human face on a man made tragedy that serves no real purpose and has absolutely nothing to do with safety.

[MegaRackattack]

@JohnPJackman Not sure what your point is, but imagine that you have worked for decades and created an honest, productive business that actually is all about safety and efficiency. Imagine that you employ people and that you are a good employer. Imagine that one day for no fault of your own and simply because of someone else's ignorance your business is shut down for a year with no end in sight. Imagine that the "reason for this isn't really the reason".

[SpinCage]

He promised "hope and change," instead America got beat down and put into a chokehold! No light at the end of Obama's tunnel, only a black hole sucking America into an oblivion of darkness.