Cuts Both Ways

Here’s a letter that I sent today to the Baltimore Sun:

Brad Heavner says that
"drilling off our coasts would have no significant impact on gasoline
prices – not in the short term, not in the long term, not ever"
(Letters, August 3).  If so, then Mr. Heavner is mistaken to worry that
such drilling would "increase our dependence on oil and produce more
global warming pollution," for any such impact would also be
insignificant.  An amount of oil that would affect prices only
inconsequentially is an amount of oil that would affect global warming
and Americans’ use of oil only inconsequentially.

And see Ross Kaminsky on this topic.

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