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"<a href="http://www.americansolutions.com/">Drill now</a>" for oil off our state coasts may make for cute, well-polled political rhetoric, but it is sadly typical of the oil-industry-funded propaganda that has diverted attention from real energy solutions for decades. This particular campaign is the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/gingrich-mounts-campaign_b_103917.html">brainchild of Newt Gingrich</a>, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives who resigned his office in disgrace, and now John McCain is aping Newt's rhetoric. Here's the reality of the proposal for offshore drilling:
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