Re: Shocking New Video: Why McCain Wants to Drill Up Our Tourist Beaches

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:54:47 -0500, "the Moderator"
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>"Don Homuth" <dhomuthoneatcomcast.net@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Just at the moment, the awlbidniss has drilling access to something
>> like 80% of all the offshore areas that are considered good prospects.
>> It hasn't yet chosen to drill in all the places that it Could drill.
>> When/if it implements drilling in those locations, we can discuss what
>> other locations might someday be appropriate to open.
>
>Cite please. 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/21/

....Not all of America's coastal waters are closed to drilling. 

Most of the country's estimated offshore reserves - about 75 percent -
lie in areas that have been drilled for years or are being opened for
exploration. Roughly 48 percent of the nation's estimated reserves, or
41 billion barrels, lie beneath the western and central Gulf of
Mexico, where oil companies armed with new drilling technology are
pu****ng into ever deeper water. Another 27 percent of the estimated
reserves, or 23.6 billion barrels, are believed to lie off the north
coast of Alaska, where the federal government sold oil exploration
leases this spring, despite fears that the work would hurt the polar
bear population....


And for some added information:

....Congress imposed a moratorium on new offshore wells along much of
the country's coastline in 1982, and President George H. W. Bush added
a presidential moratorium in 1990. But President George W. Bush lifted
that moratorium early last week as part of a concerted Republican push
on drilling. Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called
for lifting the congressional moratorium as well.

Even if that happens, it probably wouldn't create a stampede to
California's coast.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger remains opposed to expanded offshore
drilling, saying the country should focus instead on weaning itself
off oil....