Keith nuttle wrote:

If you look at a map of the coastal regions, you can see for yourself
where the continental shelf ends. It is widest off of the Maine coast
and off of Florida. The drilling would be essentially banned from North
Carolina to Cape Cod. There appears to be no shelf on the west coast.
(Get the facts, Check Google maps.) The shelf of the coast of Maine
would be extremely dangerous with the ice flows (Remember the Titanic),
so drilling would be difficult and extremely costly.

We do it, or rather the Canadian Government allows it, off the coast of
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.... of course there was the Ocean
Challenger incident, but hell, what's 84 lives in the big scheme of things.

Cheers
Marty