Feb 10, 2010 ... Origins: The above-quoted article references a segment attributed to Fox News  Channel host Glenn Beck criticizing President Obama for signing an executive  order to lend $2 billion to a Brazilian oil company to finance offshore drilling, all  without securing reciprocal oil exports from Brazil or any other ...
Dec 13, 2016 ... --PolitiFact National in August 2011 rated Pants on Fire a Perry claim that  President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore  drilling projects. The initial commitment, of far less money, was made on  President George W. Bush's watch. --Also in August 2011, PolitiFact rated False a  ...
Nov 29, 2017 ... The Energy 202: As Congress debates Alaska refuge drilling, Trump  administration approves oil project in Arctic waters ... In 2016, as he left office,  President Barack Obama used a rarely invoked law called the Outer Continental  Shelf Lands Act to ban new offshore leasing in large swaths of the Atlantic and ...
Dec 12, 2011 ... U.S. Senate candidate George Allen wants to drill here and now. The Republican  has repeatedly reminded voters that the U.S. has the largest fossil fuel reserves  in the world and faulted President Barack Obama for not aggressively developing  them. Allen brought up the issue again in a Dec. 7 debate ...
Still, over the next two decades, major oil finds in states such as Texas, California , and Oklahoma help increase U.S. production from about 26 million barrels of  ...... U.S. President Barack Obama lays out his plans for U.S. energy policy,  including supporting more biofuels and opening more U.S. waters to offshore oil  drilling.
Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.