What they CAN do, is drill a little deeper, into the magma layer just below the fractures in the crust fault that runs past them in the sea, and use this heat source to generate HUGE amounts of geothermal-driven electrical generators. Just inject the sea water into the white-hot magma, and use the superheated steam to power up generator turbines.
Or you could just use the oil. Like they do in Norway. Produce so much, we could export it.
“Opponents, however, deride today’s vote”
Like they deride everything else connected to oil. “It’ll take ten years, no, TWENTY years for new oil to be available.” If they have their way, it will be never.