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House sets stage for continued foreign oil dependence

House Votes to Keep Offshore Drilling Ban

And after all that breast-beating about gas prices, too. Sooner or later coastal states are gonna figure out that aesthetics mean little when folks can't afford to drive there for their vacations. And just out of view, the most likely source of a spill is gonna be those Chinese and Indian oil rigs. Someone is going to get that oil - why can't it be us?

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