Im sure the enviro nuts will press to protect star fish that might be disturbed by such drilling.
The reserves are out there. Oil platforms can drill, process and move on to other sites quite effiently...when allowed into areas speculated to contain oil.
Recap, when even the founder of Greenpeace agrees we need nuclear power and alternate energies, you know that even the kookiest folks out there are starting to get it.
But we suffer from NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). Up here in Maine, we have enviro-kooks upset where we might place energy producing windmalls...worried we'll ruin the scenery.
