The 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill was nasty, but we have had 39 years now to improve the drilling methods. Oil platforms are better, oil well heads and valves are better and angle drilling can lessen the need for multiple platforms.
It’s Pelosi and the environmentalists who are stuck in 1969, not the oil industry and certainly, not the rest of American consumers. New drilling will lessen oil prices faster than the wells come on line as the foreign companies who are holding us hostage will see we are no longer chumps.
More people died in the Molasses Flood in Boston than in the 1969 oil spill. As far as oil and water not mixing. More oil leaks into the ocean through cevaces than we drill out.