Gregory Asks Obama's Energy Adviser: Should We Start Drilling in ANWR?

[Credit where due - and from Gregory ?! - this is a sign...]

A rather startling thing happened on Sunday's "Meet the Press": David Gregory asked White House Energy Adviser Carol Browner if in response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, America should start drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

After a lengthy discussion about what went wrong in the Gulf to cause the current crisis, Gregory asked his guest,

"Is the problem that we're drilling in water that's just too deep?"

He continued, "Should you even rethink your own approach to the environment to say,

'Maybe in the Arctic Wildlife Reserve [Refuge], we ought to be drilling there. We ought to be going into shallower waters so that this can be done more safely?'"

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