LOUISANA GOV. BOBBY JINDAL: Ban on deep-water drilling adds insult to injury.

By now, everyone no doubt realizes that I am not a fan of the pace at which the federal government has worked to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Sadly, federal officials were slow to act and overly bureaucratic....

Against this backdrop, the federal government unwisely chose to add insult to injury by decreeing a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the gulf. This ill-advised and ill-considered moratorium ... risks killing 20,000 more jobs and will result in a loss of $65 million to $135 million in wages each month.

[B]y simply stopping all deepwater drilling, federal officials appear more interested in ideology and scoring political points -- as they have done with the misguided cap-and-trade legislation -- at the expense of Americans who derive their livelihood from the energy industry.

Yes. It’s about control, not compassion.