Federal land is PUBLIC land.
Obama was squirming on the oil/gas exploration lease issue, lying repeatedly. He completely misrepresented the process. It's not like the government sells you a lease and you just go punch a hole and oil flows out.
The GOVERNMENTAL regulation process can take years before you are actually allowed to drill, plus all the research to deterine if the area your lease is in will actually produce.
I wish Romney had pressed him harder on all the money lost on Green energy subsidies/loans, which have failed to do anything to lower the cost of energy. He did point out Obama's position on coal, which is a major fuel source for electricity production in the the US.
Obama's agenda was made clear before the 2008 election, using governmental regulation to force conventional fuel prices to skyrocket to make alternative energy sources more financially viable, which is ludicrous.
The auto industry backruptcy comment backfired on Obama as well.
The AK-47 question was a loaded one, which Obama ran from and spun it up with education, because he has no leg to stand on with Operation Fast and Furious in his lap.
On February 25, 2009 newly sworn-in AG Eric Holder repeated the Obama Admin's desire to reinstate the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
Romney nailed this point home, why did the Obama Administration create an operation in 2009 that supplied weapons purchased in US border towns to be sold to Mexican drug cartel, resulting in several hundred deaths of both Mexicans and Americans?
Romney was not correct in his statement regarding automatic weapons.
Fully automatic weapons -- guns that fire continuously when the trigger is held down -- are legal to possess in the United States but are tightly regulated. The National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Hughes Amendment in 1986 have all placed limits on how automatic guns can be bought and sold, but did not make it illegal to possess them entirely.
Our government should not be a business, but it has become more like a business with the policies of using regulations to NUDGE an agenda like Obamacare and Green energy, bailing out banks, housing and the auto industry with taxpayer funds. Cass Sustein is the Obama CZAR promoting this NUDGE theory.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/m...dxnnlx=1274007602-zz/lVlMLW9fe8OEBxOYBsg&_r=0
This is the way Socialism/Communism works, the government is in control of all business, wages, production, private property, healthcare, etc.