Alan Lowenthal actually said...

The State of North Carolina is positioned to realize significant benefits from future Atlantic oil and natural gas development.

But we obviously were not safe.

If you represent Louisiana, you want to open up your coast line, you want to put it at risk, I say stay off of my California coastline.

Climate change is real, it is happening, and we need to act now to stop it, not to go the other way and to open up our coastline.