Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the Obama administration’s decision to undo President Bush’s last-ditch effort to expedite oil and gas exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf. The Times’s Dot-Earth blogger Andy Revkin reported yesterday–and again today.

Now folks have a little more time to get their lawsuits in order.

Of course, judging by the fey spending bill and the fecklessness of Geithner’s bank-bailout announcement, perhaps the Obama plan to keep pump prices down is to keep the U.S. in a protracted recession.