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Pictures of the slimed beaches and oiled wildlife it's easy to wonder if we should stop drilling in the gulf of mexico. shutting down drilling in the gulf would be the safe way to go. you have to ask yourself the question what would be the cost. >> we have been drilling in the gulf since the mid 40s there are more than 50,000 well holes punched into the sea bed off the coast. yet, in more than 60 years of gulf drilling, the bp spill is the first major spill to occur in the u.s. coastal waters of the gulf of mexico. >> the gulf of mexico provides 10.6% of the crude we use in america each day. r...

You look at england and england is virtually independent because they've been drilling in the north sea. i think that's a good thing. we need to be drilling there. we need to be drilling in anwar. we need to be drilling around the country and encouraging our own energy protection. >> let's get to the op-eds. i'm taking it from the los angeles times. oil drilling, a nasty national habit, he calls it. he says this, tina, if the arguments you hear in the coming days for expanded drilling sounds familiar, it's because they've been repeated for generations. we've been hearing promises about safer d...