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Jeff Bingaman: “I don't want to argue with the Senator's basic point. I am in general agreement with him, that we ought to be drilling…”

On the recordApril 17, 2002
I don't want to argue with the Senator's basic point. I am in general agreement with him, that we ought to be drilling some places where we are not drilling today. But the chart the Senator has seems to indicate you are not drilling in northwestern Mexico. That is one of the largest gasfields in this country, the San Juan Basin. We are drilling at an amazing rate up there. I support the drilling that goes on there, by and large. I do not know about all the rest of the Rocky Mountain region, if that map is intending to indicate you cannot drill in it. But an awful lot of our State is being drilled in, and appropriately so.
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Jeff Bingaman
Democratic · New Mexico
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing drilling practices in the context of energy policy.

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