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	More Oil and Gas Elsewhere, Some Say But supporters of the drilling moratorium argue there's four times that amount of oil and gas available in offshore waters open to energy companies, mainly in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and off parts of Alaska. The country uses about 21 million barrels of oil a day. "We should not be opening all of our coasts to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step to conserve oil," said Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., who wanted to put into the bill a requirement to increase automobile fuel economy but was prevented from doing so. But Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., argued that developing more U.S. energy resources - especially more natural gas - is needed to ease supply shortages that have seen natural gas prices soar and America rely increasingly on oil imports. "This is not about oil companies," insisted Peterson. "This is about America competing. ... We're the only society that has said we're going to lock up our resources."


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