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Line 1: − [[Image:Petroleum_field_at_Moreni.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Oil drilling rigs (c. 1920)]]+ − − − For decades there has been a federal [[moratorium]] on new offshore oil drilling for much of the continental United States. In September 2008, under pressure by high oil prices and the status of drilling as a Presidential campaign issue, [[Congress]] refrained from renewing the ban and allowed it to sunset. − − == References == − *[http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2008/2008-09-30-091.asp Congress Allows Offshore Oil Drilling Ban to Expire] − − [[Category:Industry]] − [[Category:Geology]]
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'''Conservapedia''' is a horribly biased wiki that refuses to give more than one sentence to anything, indef-blocks vandals after only one edit, and is just plain unfair and mean. I'm a conservative and I find this place highly embarrassing.
'''Oil drilling''' is the [[commerce|commercial]] activity of [[drill]]ing for, and exploiting [[subterranean]] [[petroleum]] or [[hydrocarbon]] [[resource]]s.