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Originally Posted by dippin
Considering the debate has always been over off shore drilling in the outer continental shelf, you can safely assume that any references made by offshore drilling at this point are referring to the outer continental shelf.
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I wish we could stop being so cryptic here. Given, what I know and given what I have read here, the posts do not make any sense. I am not sure what point you are making, here. Obama is against off-shore drilling and Bush was severely criticized by liberals for wanting to do that, so was McCain. Am I wrong?
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Facing gas prices near $4 a gallon and a pivotal national election, congressional Democrats allowed a ban on offshore drilling to lapse in September
But times change, and on Tuesday, the Obama administration - with gas prices roughly half what they were and many Democrats' having been swept into office - blocked offshore drilling plans put in place at the last minute by the Bush administration, including plans to open the national outer continental shelf for drilling.
Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar also announced last week that his agency would block drilling on public lands in Utah, criticizing the Bush administration for releasing its offshore drilling plan just days before leaving office.
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Obama blocks offshore drilling - Washington Times