Our President Barack Obama has recently stated that he will start drilling for oil off the the east coast and by states such as Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. I am to lazy to find a link right now, but I think he's either doing this to satisfy the Republicans and/or not to have to depend on foreign oil, I see it as an intresting tatic which should be small in scale at the start, and if it works, should gradually and safely build in scale.