I would also open domestic drilling & re-open the permits for the gulf oil rigs.

The question of whether domestic drilling would actually reduce our oil imports is a good one.

A decline in domestic drilling, experts say, leads to higher spending for imports.

The council recommends lowering the corporate tax rate, expanding domestic drilling and simplifying the regulatory process, among other proposals.

George Bush supports nuclear power and expanded domestic drilling.

The threat of higher prices and potential shortages has led to a showdown over the most ambitious push to expand domestic drilling since the 1970's.

Most experts think it will take higher prices to spur domestic drilling.

He added that if prices rose, domestic drilling would pick up.

As recently as 1985, when high oil prices stimulated domestic drilling, imports supplied less than a third of the nation's oil demand.

The bill turned aside today would have encouraged increased domestic drilling and dropped some regulations that hinder the nuclear energy industry in building new reactors.