Judge Blocks Drilling Ban

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. William McGurn offers the basis for a presidential speech on the subject: “Think of these bad loans as a nasty leak polluting our financial system.”

The Gulf Spill. A federal district judge has blocked the administration’s six-month drilling ban. At a quick glance, it appears that the judge is saying that “the precautionary principle” is not a valid basis for such an action.

Here is a statement from the Institute for Energy Research about the judge’s ruling. (Full disclosure, I am a part-time copyeditor for IER.)

Beyond Petroleum. Here is a timely reminder of just how much BP was the favorite oil company of the Left, including now Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (who is, by the way, a Nobel Prize–winner)

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