DOER Act INtroduced
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Ninth-District representative Sue Myrick has introduced a bill in the US House called the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (DOER) of 2008. This bill would end the moratorium on drilling off American costs and would allow States to drill for oil and natural gas if they so choose. In short, this bill would increase American petroleum and natural gas supplies to help with high gas prices as well as reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Currently, The United States is the only developed nation in the world that forbids energy production on its Outer Continental Shelf — Cuba is allowing other countries, like China, to drill for oil close to 50 miles off the coast of Florida, while America sits with its hands tied. Currently, two moratoriums leave 85% of the OCS off limits to energy production. The moratoriums prohibit energy development on the OCS in waters from three miles off our coastlines, where State-owned waters end and federal waters begin, to waters beyond 200 miles off the coasts
The DOER Act of 2008 is nearly identical to the bipartisan DOER Act of 2006, which passed in the House in July 2006. It would give states the ability to determine whether or not they want to restrict energy production up to 100 miles off their shores.
Currently, The United States is the only developed nation in the world that forbids energy production on its Outer Continental Shelf — Cuba is allowing other countries, like China, to drill for oil close to 50 miles off the coast of Florida, while America sits with its hands tied. Currently, two moratoriums leave 85% of the OCS off limits to energy production. The moratoriums prohibit energy development on the OCS in waters from three miles off our coastlines, where State-owned waters end and federal waters begin, to waters beyond 200 miles off the coasts
The DOER Act of 2008 is nearly identical to the bipartisan DOER Act of 2006, which passed in the House in July 2006. It would give states the ability to determine whether or not they want to restrict energy production up to 100 miles off their shores.
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