you look at england and england is virtually independent because they ve been drilling in the north sea. i think that s a good thing. we need to be drilling there. we need to be drilling in anwar. we need to be drilling around the country and encouraging our own energy protection. let s get to the op-eds. i m taking it from the los angeles times. oil drilling, a nasty national habit, he calls it. he says this, tina, if the arguments you hear in the coming days for expanded drilling sounds familiar, it s because they ve been repeated for generations. we ve been hearing promises about safer drilling technology since before union oil began drilling in the santa barbara channel. if you don t remember what happened that time, you should. soon after the wells were bored one blew out in january of 1969, causing a massive oil slick that slimed beaches and killed birds, fish and marine mammals. resulting catastrophe helped spark the modern environmental movement. you think the president could