facts. good one. a four year old article. timely as usual and about as relevant.

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Nearly three-fourths of the 40 million acres of public land currently leased for oil and gas development in the continental United States outside Alaska isn’t producing any oil or gas



maybe there isn't any oil or gas present? or it's not cost effective to drill for it? the article certainly doesn't give any answers other than showing their true colors on the issue by using these objective statements -

"Bush administration pushes to open more environmentally sensitive public lands", "pushing to lease", "aggressive leasing of public land pushed by the Bush administration", "land grab" "the full force of the draconian Bush energy policy".

what a joke. so what have the dems done about this since they took over congress two years ago? anything?

and then this drops

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How much exploration has occurred on the nearly 30 million acres of non-producing public land leases is difficult to say. BLM officials could provide no details on the number of exploratory wells drilled on those leases



so the entire article is pointless. well not really, we'll fire up the old associated press computer shoot out a few models till we get what we want for the article and the facts speak for themselves. sure.

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An Associated Press computer analysis

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