Oil drilling plan to focus on Gulf of Mexico

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Source: Reuters

The Outer Continental Shelf leasing plan includes 15 potential lease sales over 2012-2017, including 12 in the Gulf of Mexico and three off the coast of Alaska.

"It will have an emphasis in the Gulf of Mexico," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at a meeting for the department's Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee. "We see robust oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-usa-offshore-drilling-idUSTRE7A77FL20111108

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1. There goes the Gulf...

[No Elephants]

2. Thank goodness Democrats do not subscribe to that "Drill, baby, drill" crap.