President Bush Symbolically Lifts Ban on Offshore Drilling

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By Eliza Strickland
Jul 15, 2008 1:53 AMNov 5, 2019 5:11 AM
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In a largely symbolic but intensely political move, President Bush today lifted the presidential ban on drilling for oil in U.S. coastal waters. The action will have no immediate effect due to a separate congressional ban on offshore drilling that was passed in 1981, but the president urged Congress to revoke that law as well, arguing that the United States needs to increase domestic production of oil to bring down energy prices.

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