Big surprise that the Interior Department under Ken Salazar has already made some unfortunate announcements regarding offshore oil and gas development:

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has rejected a Bush administration plan to open vast waters off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and gas drilling, promising "a new way forward" in offshore energy development including new wind projects.

Wonderful. While I'm all for new energy technologies, the efficacy of wind technology has hardly been investigated, particularly offshore. Meanwhile, the high oil prices that helped send our economy into a tailspin will be back in no time if we fail to develop new sources of oil and natural gas.