The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
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In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.
If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.
Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
Deep ocean drilling is not new.
Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.