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"Conservative" candidate Simon recently issued his policy regarding oil drilling in California. He says he will stop all future drilling, specifically coastal drilling.

Disregarding for the moment that Simon has been deeply involved in financing this drilling in the past, and disregarding the fact that California presently produces roughly 20% of US domestic oil and yet still has to import oil to its gasoline refineries, ...

How is it anything but daft to propose the curtailment of future oil drilling in California in the wake of 9/11 and the obvious build up to a war with Iraq??

How is this anything but an enviro-wacko leftwing policy that will destroy any hope of American energy independence from Middle-East oil?

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How is this anything but an enviro-wacko leftwing policy that will destroy any hope of American energy independence from Middle-East oil?

One would hope it is one campaign promise he has no intention of keeping.