Oil Reasoning

Barack Obama is opening up new areas for off shore drilling. Aside from the to-be-common excuse as reaching out to Republicans, the real reason is the government needs money. To do off shore drilling, a company bids for a lease on the rights to drill in a certain area. It comes down to finding a new way to pay for (what will probably offend some who hear it, but after my past few months of examining the coming to power of Communists and Socialists around the world throughout history I am justified in saying this) Obama's Socialist revolution in America.

He needs Republican votes on cap and trade, and this one way to get that done. Republicans are not as unified on cap and trade as one would think, and now this proposal for opening up off shore drilling is his way of "buying" Republican votes on cap and trade. It worked with Democrats in health care so the thinking in D.C. is why not Republicans also? The only way this wouldn't work is if all of a sudden every Republican found their morality and refused to be bribed by topically merged bills.