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WASHINGTON, April 19 (UPI) -- A full year after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Louisiana politicians are outraged at the federal drilling moratorium.
"Within days of the disaster -- when oil was still gushing into the gulf -- Barack Obama and his environmental extremist allies began using the tragedy to try to advance their anti-drilling agenda," Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told the New Orleans Times-Picayune Tuesday.
"They're probably reading their constituency pretty well," said Louisiana State University political scientist Kirby Goidel, whose Louisiana Survey found during the crisis that "people saw it as a BP problem; they didn't see it as an oil and gas industry problem."
Vitter and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., are among the biggest recipients of campaign funds from oil and gas interests.
The industry also backed freshman Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., who said, "the insinuation that we are in bed with the oil and gas industry is absurd. Right now, the people we are in bed with are middle-class Americans who are paying $5 a gallon for gas."
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