N&O Off shore drilling facts

There has been a lot of rhetoric about how anyone who doesn't support renewed offshore drilling is an idiot at best, maybe a liberal or worst. Here is the nugget, check out the links in the N&O for the details.

In other words, the oil offshore from North Carolina and its neighboring Atlantic Coast states amounts to between 26 and 231 days' worth of U.S. oil consumption.

The only way to get off foreign oil is to get off fossil fuels. Solar, wind, nuclear, dung recycling, take your pick. We will not drill our way to energy independence. Don't be fooled into thinking we will.
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