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Should the U.S. expand offshore oil drilling?

In July 2022 the Biden administration issued a draft plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. The proposal from the Department of the Interior recommends holding up to 10 lease sales in the Gulf over the next five years, as well as one sale in the Cook Inlet off the coast of south-central Alaska. Under the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the federal government must plan for offshore oil and gas leasing on a five-year basis. The previous plan was finalized under President Barack Obama in 2016, went into effect in 2017, and expired in 2022. Opponents inclu…  

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 @CurvyletterConstitution answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but with considerations for the long-term transition to renewable energy sources and efforts to mitigate climate change

 @96ML3Z7  from Florida  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, and offset all carbon emissions through carbon capture machinery funded by the government

 @8WDT6ZP from Ohio  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but with increased safety and mechanical integrity regulations.

 @8VTX6ZS from Georgia  answered…4yrs4Y

We should remove regulations that force companies to drill in extremely deep water because it leads to more catastrophic consequences when there is an accident.

 @8RM6DZ6Libertarian from Missouri  answered…5yrs5Y

Yes, but not until all other reserves have been depleted.

 @8NYN234 from California  answered…5yrs5Y

No government drilling

 @8CRLN8Y from Connecticut  answered…5yrs5Y

It should instead release all of Nikolai Tesla's work so that the human race can advance

 @8TTL2MVRepublican from Texas  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but require carbon catching technology

 @8TTL2MVRepublican from Texas  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but require carbon catching technology and drastically increase fines & punishment for accidents

 @8TYH38SIndependent from Texas  answered…3yrs3Y

Deregulate the energy sector, and provide more incentives for alternative energy production

 @8TYH38SIndependent from Texas  answered…3yrs3Y

Deregulate the energy sector, and provide incentives for alternative energy production

 @97GBC7R from Missouri  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but with very strict regulations.

 @8YSMXC4 from Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes if that's what companies choose

 @8TC2MFF from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but also incentivize alternative efficient energy production

 @laloftinfrom Georgia  answered…5yrs5Y

No, but maintain our current offshore wells and provide more incentive for alternative energy production

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…11mos11MO

Trump’s Doom vs. Harris’s Hope as America Decides Its Fate

Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris closed out their campaigns in the final hours before Election Day in starkly different moods: The former president, often appearing drained at arenas that were not filled, claimed that the country was on the brink of ruin, while the vice president promised a more united future as energized supporters chanted alongside her, “We’re not going back.”In stop after stop, the presidential rivals essentially offered up two competing versions of reality on Monday and into early Tuesday. Mr. Trump repeatedly raised the specter of unchecked immigration and the dangers of Democratic policies as he spoke to crowds in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before closing with a midnight rally in Michigan.With a comparatively more optimistic message, Ms. Harris crisscrossed Pennsylvania, which holds 19 electoral votes that could decide the race. Stopping in Scranton, Allentown and Pittsburgh before a nighttime rally in Philadelphia, Ms. Harris talked about bolstering the economy and restoring federal abortion rights. She asserted that Americans were “exhausted” and ready to move on from the politics of the past decade.About 30 miles to the southwest, Mr. Trump was in Reading, Pa., broadly portraying undocumented immigrants as mentally ill criminals and calling those accused of crimes “savages” and “animals.”Both leaned on Hispanic supporters as they tried to rally Latino voters. The pro-Harris rapper Fat Joe, who is Puerto Rican, practically shamed his fellow Latinos in Allentown as he asked, “Where’s your pride?” Mr. Trump, still facing fallout from his rally in New York at which a comedian called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” brought Roberto Clemente Jr., the son of the Puerto Rican baseball legend, to the stage at a rally in Pittsburgh.But Mr. Trump, reaching the end of a grueling marathon of a campaign that began in 2022, looked visibly weary, battling fatigue in front of listless crowds, though he was relatively more upbeat and energized in Michigan. Ms. Harris, still appearing fresh after a three-month sprint, appealed for unity and pressed the contrast to her rival without uttering his name.“The measure of a true leader is based not on who you beat down,” she said. “It is based on who you lift up.”Despite the sharply different tones, polls suggest the race remains tight, with the final New York Times/Siena College surveys showing the candidates tied or holding only narrow leads in all of the seven battleground states.

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