The Senate voted 71-25 today to open up eight million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling. The area will provide all of 47 days worth of oil and four months worth of natural gas. Between 1980 and 1999, three million gallons of oil spilled from offshore drilling operations in the Gulf — that’s 150,000 gallons a year.
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