washingtonexaminer.com popular May 05, 10 03:04 pm — From an environmental perspective, off-shore oil drilling is far safer than Mother Nature. As the Wall Street Journal noted yesterday, oil that seeps naturally from the ocean floor puts 47 million gallons of crude into U.S. w...
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May 05, 10 04:41 pm
every other country gets 10 mile limit... how is 42 miles offshore considered us waters??
and 47 million gallons... try mopping up 47 million gallons of water and see how much it is.
May 05, 10 05:42 pm
Kind of the difference between having a million tons of meteoritic dust spread over the whole US and having a million ton meteorite land in your backyard! They are not equivalent!
May 06, 10 10:49 pm
This is oil company PR spin as laundered through the mouths of conservative talk radio hosts.
Pay no attention to that lobbyist man behind the curtain.
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47 million gallons of crude into U.S. waters annually
How many square miles comprise U.S. waters? I assume that they include non-Gulf regions. Is this meaning only Ocean/Gulf waters? Does it include waters bordering territories, or only mainland?