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President Obama will increase oil and gas drilling in the US in attempt to lower fuel prices

President Obama announced Saturday that he was ramping up oil and gas drilling in the U.S. – but city drivers fed up with sky high gas prices said it was too little, too late.

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Interior allows some suspended drilling to resume (AP)

In this Dec. 16, 2010 photo, a worker stands near a front loader as they prepare to move piles of sand impacted by the BP PLC oil spill on a beach in Grand Isle, La. Crews have been scouring the Gulf Coast's sandy shores for oil_digging, scraping, tilling and sifting beach after beach in their hunt. There is still an untold amount of oil in the form of gooey, largely non-toxic tar, lying under sand, mud and oyster shells along the shores, leaving the prospect that tar balls may wash up from time to time for months, if not years. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP – The Obama administration said Monday it will allow 13 companies to resume deepwater drilling without any additional environmental scrutiny, just months after saying it would require strict reviews for new drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill.


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Obama rejects drilling in eastern Gulf of Mexico (AP)

FILE - In a June 23, 2010 file photo, crews work to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore at Pensacola Beach in Pensacola Fla.  In a reversal, the Obama administration says it will not pursue offshore drilling in East Coast waters, including the eastern Gulf of Mexico. A senior administration official told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 1,, 2010 that because of the BP oil spill, the Interior Department will not propose any new oil drilling in the East Coast for at least the next seven years. (AP Photo/ Michael Spooneybarger, File)AP – Pointing to the BP blowout and risks of a new environmental disaster, the Obama administration reversed itself Wednesday and promised not to pursue offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or anywhere else along the nation’s East Coast.


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Citing BP, Obama rejects East Coast oil drilling (AP)

FILE - In a June 23, 2010 file photo, crews work to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore at Pensacola Beach in Pensacola Fla.  In a reversal, the Obama administration says it will not pursue offshore drilling in East Coast waters, including the eastern Gulf of Mexico. A senior administration official told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 1,, 2010 that because of the BP oil spill, the Interior Department will not propose any new oil drilling in the East Coast for at least the next seven years. (AP Photo/ Michael Spooneybarger, File)AP – Pointing to the BP blowout and risks of a new environmental disaster, the Obama administration reversed itself Wednesday and promised not to pursue offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or anywhere else along the nation’s East Coast.


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Obama: No offshore drilling in East Coast waters (AP)

FILE - In a June 23, 2010 file photo, crews work to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore at Pensacola Beach in Pensacola Fla.  In a reversal, the Obama administration says it will not pursue offshore drilling in East Coast waters, including the eastern Gulf of Mexico. A senior administration official told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 1,, 2010 that because of the BP oil spill, the Interior Department will not propose any new oil drilling in the East Coast for at least the next seven years. (AP Photo/ Michael Spooneybarger, File)AP – In a reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will not pursue offshore drilling off the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.


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Back in business: US lifts deep water drilling ban (AP)

FILE - In this June 24, 2010 file photo, oil workers from the Gulf Island Fabrication Yard listen to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal during a speech in Houma, La., where he spoke out against the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling, saying it would kill thousands of Louisiana jobs.   The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the deep water oil drilling moratorium that the government imposed in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the disastrous BP oil spill.  (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)AP – The U.S. is back in the deep water oil-drilling business. The question now is when work will resume. The Obama administration, under heavy pressure from the oil industry and Gulf states and with elections nearing, lifted the moratorium that it imposed last April in the wake of the disastrous BP oil spill.


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Gov’t: Offshore oil drilling ban to be lifted (AP)

The sun sets behind two under construction offshore oil platform rigs in Port Fourchon, Louisiana in June 2010. The White House said on Tuesday that the Obama administration will likely lift a moratorium on deepwater offshore oil drilling imposed after the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster AP – The Obama administration is lifting the six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill, officials said Tuesday.


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