The headline over Brian Winter’s April 1st USA Today story reads “Obama to allow off-shore oil drilling in new areas” but the first paragraph reads:

Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, President Obama announced an expansive new policy on Wednesday that could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.

That “could” is key. All President Obama actually promised in his speech was “an expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration.” Exploration does not mean any oil extraction will ever occur, … Continue Reading