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US Offers Up 37 Million Acres for Offshore Drilling in Gulf of Mexico

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Drill, baby, sigh. Well, Obama evidently wasn't kidding about making bipartisan compromises in his energy policy. According to a breaking report from Reuters, the US Interior Department has just "issued the final leasing terms" for almost 37 million offshore acres in the Gulf of Mexico. Which means over a billion barrels of crude oil and trillions of cubic sq feet of gas will be extracted from new drilling operations. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger