[thackney]

The vast majority of the outer continental shelf is already open to oil exploration:

What a flat out lie!!!

Eighty-five percent of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), out to 200 miles off the lower 48 states, is off limits to development. These inaccessible lands contain an estimated 18 billion barrels of oil and 76 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the U.S. Minerals Management Service

http://www.api.org/Newsroom/upload/RED_CAVANEY_SPEECH_TO_USEA_ENERGY_SUPPLY_FORUM.pdf

[kellynla]

Since you are more knowledgeable on this issue than I,
I wish you would write the L.A. Times and rebut Feinstein’s argument.

letters@lattimes.com

[DaveyB]

The vast majority of the outer continental shelf is already open to oil exploration:

She didn't say they were open to production; just exploration. That way we know where the oil resides that we prohibited from pumping. Some days I think SanFranNan is working for OPEC.