@H2O MAN,
Yes we should grant the same freedom from government oversight that we did the mortage and banking firms and allowed them to drill anywhere they wish to with any or no safe guards at their whims.
The price of gas would be down to less then 27 cents a gal and those on the coast line could save money by not needing to buy oil for their cars all they would need to do is go down to the ocean with a bucket for free oil.
Those people living in the mid west would not need to do even that thanks to the oil pipe lines run over the source of their water resources all they would need to do in run the oil out of their water/oil faucets.
Damn Obama and those Democrats thinking that anything is as importance as the profits margins of the oil firms less alone the health and safety of the population.