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Article: Offshore drilling: Presidential candidates concur [Derived headline]
- Article from:
- The Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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face=+Italic; Offshore drilling: Presidential candidates concur on bad ideaface=-Italic;
In a rare burst of bipartisan consensus, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have agreed on a dreadful proposal: Open more of America's fragile coastlines to offshore oil drilling.
How is it awful? Let me count the ways.
1. It will do nothing for today's or tomorrow's pump prices. The U.S. Energy Department says it: Drilling in these previously banned offshore areas "would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030."
The idea that extracting more oil in the United States would uniquely benefit American consumers is also nonsense. Oil gets poured ...