Actually that's a topic many on the left don't fully grasp. Obama is a president, not a king. He has done nothing at all but hurt oil development on federal holdings. Anything that has occurred happened on private lands that typically don't have split-estate issues. Because it was all on private lands (Texas and the Dakotas) President Obama, or King Barry as the liberals know him, couldn't do much of anything one way or another. He can't unilaterally make a decree that there will be no more oil and gas developments or extraction on private lands. Likewise he cannot say that all oil and gas development from henceforth must occur on private lands. I know it's a difficult concept for liberals to grasp, ......which might explain why they keep electing the totalitarian types.