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On the Right on Friday, July 18, 2008 10:16:32 PM
A day after House Democrats pretend to be in favor of drilling, Sen.
Diane Feinstein calls offshore drilling a "distraction." Mark Sept. 30
on your calendar. It's the day Democrats have to put up or shut up.
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In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, Feinstein repeated
the canard that the oil companies are sitting on 68 million acres of
leases that go unexplored. If the California senator knows where they
are, can she please tell House Minority Leader John Boehner and the
rest of us?
On his Web site, Boehner says: "Democrats have been utterly unable
to say where they came up with the claim that oil companies are sitting
on 68 million acres of federal lands without drilling for oil or gas on
any of it — and particularly how they arrived at the amount of oil they
claim could be found on those 68 million acres."
Feinstein falsely claims that the "vast majority of the Outer
Continental Shelf is already open to oil exploration." As we noted here
Friday, 85% of the 1.76 billion acres of the OCS is prohibited from
being developed by the congressional ban.
The senator says that "areas containing an estimated 82% of all the
natural gas and 79% of the oil are today available to oil companies
through existing federal leases." How does she know that, considering
that 85% of the OCS is off-limits? How does she know this if the land
is unexplored and the leases unused?