What Obama says for public consumption rarely lines up with his actions. For example, look at this quote from Obama:

Mr. Obama said he had ordered a review of why oil companies aren’t producing more petroleum on federal land, and said his administration would monitor “any possible manipulation in the oil markets” and work with state governments to monitor for potential price gouging at the gas pump.

Spoken like a true politician in full on pander mode. But, what Obama says rarely lines up with what Obama does:

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is exploring whether to expand federal oversight of offshore drilling beyond oil and gas companies to rig suppliers, oil field services providers and other contractors now outside regulators’ reach.

Michael Bromwich, the director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, told reporters Tuesday that the existing system imposes artificial limits on what his agency can do to make offshore drilling safer. Its enforcement power now ends with oil and gas companies that hold leases to drill in U.S. waters.

“That dramatically limits the scope of our oversight,” he said. “It is very important for our regulatory oversight to extend as broadly as possible to all of the entities that are operating offshore and not for us to be artificially limited just to the individual operator that applies for permits and submits exploration plans.”

Bromwich said that approach may have seemed adequate before the lethal blowout of BP’s Macondo well nearly a year ago – which killed 11 and started a multimillion-gallon oil spill – but isn’t compatible with the regulatory agenda that arose from the disaster.

“We are very interested in pushing that in an aggressive and in a responsible way,” he said, “and if that requires us to extend our scope beyond the operator, that’s something that needs to be seriously considered.”

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement is not some obscure Washington agency. They report to directly to Ken Salazar and the Department of The Interior. There is no chance that Director Michael Bromwich is freelancing and Obama has no knowledge of what is going on.