Reply #4: Obama lifted the decades-old ban on Oil-Drilling

[sabrina 1]

off the U.S. coast. Where are getting the information that now, someone who wants to do so, cannot? There is no link in your OP and I have done a quick search and see nothing that backs up what you are saying.

I CAN however, find hundreds of links to contradict your claim. This is just one of many as an example:

Obama to lift ban on off-shore drilling

President Barack Obama announced plans Wednesday to reverse a decades-old U.S. ban on new drilling for oil and natural gas off some parts of the country's shores. The president's decision also reverses a stance he took in the 2008 election campaign.

President Obama said allowing some new offshore drilling will help meet the nation's energy needs while alternative energy sources are being developed.

In fact, Obama himself pointed out that because the U.S. has so little oil compared to what we need, we will need to do more than 'just drill'.

"We have less than two percent of the world's oil reserves," said the president. "We consume more than 20 percent of the world's oil. What that means is that drilling alone cannot come close to meeting our long-term energy needs."

'Lift ban on off-shore drilling'. That is what he did.