Drilling for war, offshore
More domestic oil and gas drilling, whether in the Outer Continental Shelf, or the Interior, will only feed the dirty energy infrastructure sustained by perpetual war, in the Middle East and in Africa.
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An oil drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico, January 28, 2008. --KM&G-Morris.
I'm cross-posting this, which I wrote, on Examiner.com, in response to the Interior Department's hearings on extending oil and gas drilling leases into the entire 1.7 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf. Full text is at
www.examiner.com/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m4d24-Can-we-drill-for-energy-independence-in-the-US-and-end-the-oil-wars