With energy issues capturing headlines and a national consternation over gasoline prices, President Bush called on Congress to lift a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and new portions of the Gulf of Mexico. Two days earlier, Sen. John McCain asked for the same thing.
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Bush says America should develop oil in the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming; he again proposed drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and he also again proposed increasing refinery capacity, according to a report from the Environmental News Service, “Bush, McCain Would Lift Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling.”
More Resources:
Nightly Business Report on ‘Deep Oil’:
This 2007 special report is on issues surrounding the dangerous and expensive practice of drilling for oil in ocean waters more than 7,000 ft. deep. Three video reports onsite from the Gulf of Mexico.
NRDC: The Bush Record on offshore drilling
Robert Says:
This is a cheap political move by two men who are hopelessly out of date with the 21rst Century. It is neither safe for our enivorment, and has been denounced by every energy stock holder on wall street as “Too Little, Too Late”, to get us out of a recession.