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We're Running Out of Drilling Puns
Senate votes to expand drilling in Gulf of Mexico |
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02 Aug 2006 |
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| We're Running Out of Drilling Puns Senate votes to expand drilling in Gulf of Mexico Acting boldly to address America's nascent energy crisis, U.S. senators ... passed one more sop to the oil and gas industry and got ready to flee town for the summer recess. Yesterday, by a vote of 71 to 25, the Senate passed a bill that would open 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, while p ... |
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| Topics: Gulf of Mexico, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics) |
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