Offshore drilling unlikely in Maryland waters

Despite the chants of “drill, baby, drill” from thousands of Marylanders upset at surging gasoline prices, the prospects of Maryland becoming an offshore oil producer like states along the western Gulf coast is remote.

While the new plan wouldn’t allow for exploration until at least the latter half of this decade, Maryland’s top statewide elected officials have made it clear they don’t support the prospect of oil exploration off our Atlantic coast.

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