Easy enough.
http://moratorium.offshoremarine.org/omsa/
Just the plan to ban causes the prices to go up.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/pos..._will_ban.html
Sixty percent also believe that gas and oil prices will drop if the government allows offshore drilling, opening up an estimate 14 billion barrels of oil and 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/...le-he-s-office
and for a final point for a "little analytical support for my allegations".
This is, after all, a White House that has put at the center of its domestic agenda its goal of a "green economy," which hinges on making fossil fuels too expensive for Americans to purchase. In January 2008, candidate Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that under his cap-and-trade plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." Steven Chu, now Secretary of Energy, told this newspaper in the same year: "Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." That would be, oh, $10 a gallon.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...820953870.html
Hope this helps your appreciation and expectations.