In 1990 President George H.W. Bush passed an executive order banning all offshore drilling in U.S. coastal waters. Smart move. NOT! The reason we are fighting a war in the Middle East and paying high gas prices at the pump is one of these reasons. Offshore drilling should be permitted to extend in US claimed waters so as to become oil independent. This should include any resource any deposits of energy and minerals to include fish. In response to rising gas prices in 2008, President George W. Bush lifted the ban, guess we learned something here? Currently, there are 3,500 offshore oil rigs, 79 of which are deep
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