Bush Lifts Offshore Drilling Ban

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Bush Lifts Offshore Drilling Ban

July 16, 2008 | ISSUE 44•29

To give the appearance of combating high oil prices, President Bush lifted a long-standing executive order prohibiting offshore drilling. What do you think?

How does that lower oil prices? Would it be like a farmers' market, where I drive down to the Gulf Coast and buy barrels of crude direct?

Gretchen McEneaney
Systems Analyst
Of course—he's thinking 'legacy'.

Brian Piper
Computer Salesperson
Is there a ban on printing more money? If so he should lift that too and fix the economy while he's at it.

Don O'Connor
Painter

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