Bout time. We have oil off the coast of Florida and the Chinese have been slant drilling for it for years.
We have oil in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of California.
We need to be oil independent and this is the first step.
Glad we finally have a President with the brains to make it so.
This really isn't anything Trump did. This approval was quietly done by Obama before Trump took office so the report is giving Trump credit for something he didn't do. What's more significant is the five year extension of banning drilling in the Arctic and other oil rich areas that obama added at the same time. If Trump can reverse that and the drilling bans off the Pacific coast we can drive the price of energy way down and free up consumer spending and then really unleash economic potential here.
That energy independence thing is mainly a ruse. The prices are contingent upon
global supplies.