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The US Energy Information Administration says.
"Offshore oil drilling will have no effects on fuel prices or production until the year 2030."
And after 2030 ?
"... insignificant impact on fuel prices after 2030"
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But it will have and impact on your next fish dinner....
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Coming soon to your next fish dinner, even more .....
EPA: arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, barite, chrome lignosulfate, petroleum hydrocarbons, vanadium, copper, aluminum, chromium, zinc, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, radionuclides, and other heavy metals, oil and grease, ethylbenzene, napthalene, toluene, zinc, ethylene, fuels, surfacants, biocides, detergents, corrosion inhibitors, bleach, cleaning solvents, coagulants.
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United States Government Energy Information Administration ( EIA )
Impacts of Increased Access to Oil and Natural Gas Resources in the Lower 48 Federal Outer Continental Shelf
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html
"The projections in the OCS access case indicate that access to the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf regions would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030."
"… any impact on average wellhead prices is expected to be insignificant."
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein.
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