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Drilling reprieve

It started out as a sweeping proposal to open coastal waters all around the United States to exploration and exploitation for oil. No doubt in just that order. Only now this administration is having second and much better thoughts after the people and politicians of Florida voiced what sounded like a near-unanimous reaction to this administration's not-so-bright idea. Which was not only No, but Hell No.

For it would have been the first time in some three decades that the federal government had put a For Lease sign on its

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