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...Floridians have spoken loud and clear, and their voices have been heard by President Bush," Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday after Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced the administration would ask Congress to let oil companies drill on about 1.5 million more acres in the Gulf of Mexico. That's just a quarter of the roughly 6 million acres that the Clinton administration first proposed opening for leasing in 1997 and that the Bush/Cheney energy plan had earmarked for drilling...
...compromise was made (and somehow you don't expect Norton to be overruled later in the week) to appease the state GOPers whom Bush offended late last month when he came to Florida to strike an environmental pose at the Everglades National Park with a bunch of Democrats. It may even break the supply-side stranglehold Florida put on the House when it engineered a 247 to 164 vote last month to bar exploration in the eastern gulf until April...
...that everybody's happy - not even close. Most environmental groups would prefer not to drill at all, and Florida Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson, quickly dubbed the plan "the proverbial camel's nose under the tent." (Norton did say the plan would call for a reconsideration of its limits in six years.) And the energy industry and its friends in Congress are just plain appalled at Bush's lack of backbone...
...trouble, the White House gets to offer energy producers about 44 percent of the oil deposits and 47 percent of the natural gas deposits that the larger site had, on one-fourth the acreage. Enough natural gas, said Norton, to serve one million American families for 15 years, and enough oil to power the cars of one million families for nearly six years...
Ashberry is currently a professor of languages and literature at Bard College. He delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard during the 1989-1990 academic year...