Rushing to ban offshore drilling after the Gulf spill only pushes oil companies to move to countries with lax environmental laws. Instead, the White House should punish the culprit for this ecological Chernobyl. When the Gulf oil spill is stopped, and the cleanup gets under way, there will be a new, larger debate about the future of offshore drilling. During the 2008 election, I was invited to join Barack Obama's energy and environment team, and I advocated offshore drilling at the time....
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