They don't even have the capacity or resources to DRILL where they have FULL PERMISSION as well as a GUARANTEE of finding oil!!!

...IN AS FAR AS THEIR "Arguments" that DRILLING must be allowed in "Environmentally Protected Areas" (RE: Their FAVORITE Argument): .... <link> ...oil companies already have under lease 68 million acres on federal lands and waters — outside the ban area — that are not being developed.

275187 Sq Km = 68000000 acres

9,826,630 sq km = Total Area of the US

9,826,630 / 275187 = Approx. AREA Equal to about 1/36th of the land mass of America (More then ONE ENTIRE Average Sized STATE?)

(Oh.... then they couldn't use it as a "Political Talking Point" to divert attention AWAY from the fact that the GOP is in fact working for and supporting NEAR CRIMINAL "Price Gouging" by the Big Oil Special Interests!)

It's not ENOUGH that Big Oil ALREADY can refuse to develop known oil reserves that cover an area LARGER then an average STATE (just in Oil Leases on FEDERAL LANDS).... They want it ALL (or as much as they can GET before their "Boy" has to surrender the White House!!!)

Actually, it should be staggering as far as exposing the "Big Lie" that BIG OIL is sitting on KNOWN yet UNDEVELOPED oil leases the land mass of OVER one average sized STATE!!!

As far as I'm concerned (if true; which it HAS even been admitted in the Congressional Testimony of BIG OIL itself).... WHY all this bitch-n-moan about Protected Off-shore and Alaska Reserves IF you can't even develop what you ALREADY HAVE!!!!

PURE unadulterated BULL-SHIT!!! (No Sale!!!)