Like Alaska, the coastal waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific, just to name a few.
Well if that oil was off limits before the BP spill,
there's not a snowball's chance of drilling it AFTER the spill.
It doesn't matter whether it's actually there or not.
BP screwed the pooch.
That oil is going to remain off limits for at least another generation, maybe two or three.
I probably won't even be alive another 20~25 years from now, so there's no sense wasting my time ranting about oil that they won't let us drill in my lifetime anyway.
But like explaining that Obama has fully 1/3 more people to do the census than is required to man and staff the entire United States Navy worldwide, a good illustration goes a long way.
Ask the person that sees no harm in promoting Green Energy with this sort of bill if he is in favor of allowing the Federal Government to increase taxes by introducing a new tax that will generate 68% of the tax taken by the entire Income Tax. When he says that seems like a terrible amount to tax us, explain to him that that is the best estimate of the taxes to be generated by Cap and Trade and he will pay it in every utility bill cost, every product cost that uses energy or transportation to get it built and delivered and in every gallon of gas he buys and in the electricity he uses to charge his electric car.
With good illustration we can explain the complex.