[colorado tanker]

What point do you think you are trying to make??? Of course exploration precedes drilling, that's why Obama killed it.

The administration officially scrapped a plan by Bush's administration that would have OK'd leases off the northeastern Atlantic coast and in the Pacific waters off California, Oregon and Washington, where drilling has been banned for decades.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/6937779.html

Do you need more sources???

[ColdWater]

What point do you think you are trying to make???

Three times a charm?

Actually, CA has a moratorium on offshore drilling.

[ColdWater]

Here is the exact situation in Santa Barbara (emphasis mine):

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August 27, 2008|Maria L. La Ganga, Times Staff Writer A divided Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday in support of offshore drilling, after an impassioned daylong hearing in which this year's record gas prices trumped the memory of a disastrous oil spill.

By a 3-2 vote that broke along geographic lines, supervisors agreed to send a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urging him to change state policy and "allow expanded oil exploration and extraction" off the county's coast.