A divided Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday in support of offshore drilling, after an impassioned daylong hearing in which this year's record gas prices trumped the memory of a disastrous oil spill.
A divided Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday in
support of offshore drilling, after an impassioned daylong hearing in
which this year's record gas prices trumped the memory of a disastrous
oil spill.
By a 3-2 vote that broke along geographic lines, supervisors agreed to
send a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urging him to change state
policy and "allow expanded oil exploration and extraction" off the
county's coast.
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