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Salazar: Obama Wants Alaska Offshore Drilling | Although Rick Santorum thinks President Obama is on the side of the caribou, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is assuring Alaskans the president is actually on the side of Big Oil. Meeting with Alaska businesspeople and a representative from Shell Oil, Salazar said the president’s attitude toward Arctic offshore drilling is “Let’s take a look at what’s up there and see what it is we can develop.”