MoveOn Ad Urges Obama To Stop Future Offshore Drilling (VIDEO)

Activists opposed to new offshore drilling projects are seeing the Gulf coast oil spill as a call to action, using the crisis to urge President Obama toward a clean energy future. MoveOn.org added its voice with an ad released today titled "The Ban."

The ad features a plea for clean energy with images of the devastation caused by the oil spill and calls on Obama to reinstate the ban on new offshore drilling.

While Obama has put new offshore drilling plans on hold until the cause of the disaster is discovered, he has given no indication that future offshore drilling plans are off the table.

WATCH the ad:

Comments

[thom123456]

12:45 PM on 06/01/2010

It is Time for Our Elected Leaders to Take the Lead in the Gulf!

BP has been irresponsible long before the Gulf of Mexico explosion happened. BP ignored safety issues, taking risks they knew had the potential to cause mass destruction in the Gulf of Mexico. They have kept vital spill information from our elected government, stopped media from covering the disaster under threat of arrest, and tried to force fisherman to sign a waver limiting their legal rights before allowing them to help clean up the mess BP made.
It's time to ask President Obama to take a stronger lead in response to the gulf oil spill.

Learn more at ourgulf.i8.com

[OhgReaTone]

01:06 PM on 05/26/2010

First Things First. STOP THAT OIL LEAK!!!. President Obama - it is time for you to step up and take charge.. .............

http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/05/26/the-need-for-a-really-big-government-to-intervene-in-the-gulf/

[Pleneras]

02:46 PM on 05/16/2010

These ads have been running in PA continuiously with a positive response from the public who says the media is lying about polls saying the majority of americans want drilling to continue based on a WJ poll of a few hundred corporate participants. The public is not stupid and we demand solar and wind energy today not next year or the next 50 years!

[Chopin]

03:00 AM on 05/05/2010

I congratulate MoveOn for its good political instincts and judgment in the ads about offshore drilling.

[boston997]

11:59 AM on 05/04/2010

Drill Baby, Drill

[Hank10303]

11:02 AM on 05/04/2010

I agree with Move on.

Circumstances on the ground have changed.

[olivia]

10:06 AM on 05/04/2010

Solar and wave power are the closest things on earth to a free lunch. Let's do it.

[boston997]

01:33 PM on 05/04/2010

There is no such thing as a free lunch

[Pleneras]

02:47 PM on 05/16/2010

in your world because everything must have a price even if the earth owns it.

[olivia]

10:03 AM on 05/04/2010

Good job MoveOn. President Obama, this is your moment. Make the right choice. History will remember this as a turning point, or a wasted opportunity.

[boston997]

01:47 PM on 05/04/2010

Obama has had his moment for over a year, and has done nothing with it.

[ohnoforgotmyusername]

10:57 AM on 05/05/2010

the explosion happened weeks ago. the us navy started moving their booms just days ago. (the navy has most of the booms being used)

why?

i say blame bush for anything but who is in charge of the military now as commander in chief?

[HLL]

09:54 AM on 05/04/2010

Right on Moveon!

[rougebaisers]

06:19 AM on 05/04/2010

Not hard hitting enough, but a start.

[Zapatista]

01:38 AM on 05/04/2010

"Only when the last tree has withered, the last fish has been caught, and the last river has been poisoned, will you realize you cannot eat money."

— Cree Proverb

[Elwise1]

11:19 PM on 05/03/2010

If we technologically can't even handle a huge oil flow, even though we've been given assurances for years that this was all safe, then how can we still be gullible enought to believe nuclear power is safe. You have no recovery for a major nuclear plant disaster, no way to clean it up. And remember in 40 years the industry and government haven't even come up with a safe way to long term store the nuclear waste!!! Let this oil spew be a warning for our plans to start building nuclear power plants again! It's time to embrace natural gas in a big way, NOW.

[Gus Collins]

11:02 PM on 05/03/2010

check this link showing Pres. Obama's U.S. Dept. of the Interior bragging about drilling more then Pres. Bush...

http://www.doi.gov/whatwedo/energy/ocs/EasternGulf.cfm

[ohnoforgotmyusername]

10:59 AM on 05/05/2010

obamas judgement sux.

he needs to be primaried.

[TeaPartyVoter]

10:09 PM on 05/03/2010

For once in my life I agree with MoveOut .......let's start building 10 - 12 nuclear plants immediately.

[olivia]

10:05 AM on 05/04/2010

Nuclear has its own drawbacks, not the least of which is what to do with the waste.

[structurequity]

10:06 PM on 05/03/2010

We keep speaking as if our Obama has a voice not his own.

[TeaPartyVoter]

10:11 PM on 05/03/2010

Good post. I wonder when MSNBC is going to report that Obama took $400,000 from BP in contributions, and asked them for more money after his announcement of drilling off VA shore?