{"id":5525,"date":"2010-12-02T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2010-12-02T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:05:09","slug":"more-predicted-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/more-predicted-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"More Predicted Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHorizon Oil Spill<\/p>\n

COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported:<\/p>\n

Thursday, December 2, 2010 <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic Coast through 2017, reversing two key policy changes the president embraced in late March.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/01\/AR2010120107185.html<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This was something that I expected as I wrote the following in a post on May 17, 2010 titled Gulf Oil Spill Will Severely Hurt the USA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Obama administration was always a bit skittish about more offshore oil drilling, and if they allow any additional amounts in the future, it will probably be on an exceptionally limited scale. This spill simply gives drilling critics too much ammunition to object.\u00a0 Historically, the political leadership in Washington, D.C. has tended to favor minimizing what is perceived to be the short-term negatives instead of maximizing long-term positives (and this is NOT limited to the current Obama administration).<\/p>\n

The USA imports tremendous amounts of oil.\u00a0 If it produced it internally, the deficits could be began to be addressed and many Americans could end up with better paying jobs.<\/p>\n

Now, the odds of more offshore oil drilling opening up is getting more and more stacked against the drilling.\u00a0 Although I consider myself to be an environmentalist, I have long recognized the hypocrisy of those who drive vehicles fueled by\/with oil who opposed drilling off the coast here in California.\u00a0 Many seem to feel that it if okay to drill off the coast of other lands, as long as it is not theirs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that the Obama Administration has gone even further is not a surprise.\u00a0 We have oil here in Southern California that other politicians (and not the Obama Administration) have also decided to not allow to be drilled.\u00a0 These positions are not helpful to rebuild the economy of the USA, which currently needs help, not hypocritical restrictions (they are hypocritical because people, including politicians, still seem to think that traveling in vehicles somehow powered by oil is fine–apparently if other nations may have less stringent environmental standards).<\/p>\n

Here is some of what I wrote in a post for the Examiner dated May 28, 2010 titled Oil spill is a step in the end of the USA. President Obama are you listening?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As bad as the environmental disaster is, it will pale in comparison to what will happen to the USA in a few years according to biblical prophecy.<\/p>\n

The fact that President Obama has suspended certain oil drilling in Alaska, and California Governor Schwarzenegger has dropped his plans to support more drilling of the California Coast (which used to be a major industry near where I live) means that the economic impact of this oil spill will basically insure that less oil drilling will be done in the USA.\u00a0 Here are some of the ramifications of that:<\/p>\n