Does Offshore Oil Drilling Reduce Pollution?
Christine O’Donnell, who is challenging Joe Biden, repeats a number of the standard fossil fuel industry talking points in her op-ed advocating offshore drilling that appeaared in the News Journal today. But the piece contained a point that I had not seen before: Biden would like us to believe that offshore drilling is an environmental catastrophe. But only 1 percent of the oil pollution in the sea is the result of oil drilling, while 63 percent is the result of natural seepage on the ocean floor. So the earth itself is messier than oil companies. Where did Ms. O’Donnell learn such startling truths?
