[bestintxas]

You are still missing the point. It does not take 7 or 20 years to get production.

The Offshore California Basins are already explored by and large. Drilling a well, sending in a floater to produce like the Brazilians are doing will take a few months, not years like the Dems would have you believe for all offshore production.

[thackney]

No, drilling a new production well in a known field with existing infrastructure won't take but a couple years at most.

But the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, ANWR, and most of the area we want to explore and are currently off-limits do not fall in this category. There are far more petroleum and natural gas resources that fall into the last catagory than the first.