No, Virginia, you cannot have offshore drilling — but here’s an offshore wind lease as a consolation prize « Hot Air

No, Virginia, you cannot have offshore drilling — but here’s an offshore wind lease as a consolation prize « Hot Air: "Earlier this year, Virginia’s two (Democratic, ahem) senators introduced legislation to end the offshore oil-and-gas leasing shutout that the Obama administration effectively imposed on the eastern seaboard and west coast with the five-year drilling plan they released last year, which only allows for drilling in limited areas in the Gulf Coast and for lease sales off the coast of Alaska later on. With our economic growth still moving at a snail’s pace, opening up more areas for drilling would provide a lot job opportunities as well as bring in more government revenue, and it didn’t take long for the House to take up and pass their own version of some offshore-drilling expansion legislation."

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