So you can't say, even if there were 50 billion barrels, that you would open that area, that that would be so persuasive that you--and you knew how many billions of dollars we were sending to people that are funding terrorism, you would still say it is too politically indelicate to risk smudging the California beaches like we did the Florida beaches.
Gohmert questions the political implications of drilling off California despite potential oil reserves.
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