(What I remember also is the joke about getting the Royal Italian Air Force to fly over and drop several hundred tons of lettuce and a few dozen tons of tomatoes, turning the Channel into a giant Italian salad.)

per TPM:
DCCC Chairman and Congressman Chris Van Hollen discusses and smacks down republican talking points drilling in ANWAR and gasoline prices w/ Wolf Blizter . Transcript of Blitzer/Van Hollen debate/smacldown here

Report released in May 2008 analyses of Crude oil Production in ANWAR (was requested by Senator Stevens)

FLORDIA
Overview of crude oil reserves and supply (scroll to Reserves & Supply)
2002 estimate of barrels of oil under the everglades (40 million)

CALIFORNIA -
overview of oil reserves and supply.
2006 article on offshore drilling
2008 article Mccain wants to drill offshore (calif est supply listed)
1969 Santa Barbara oil spill that led to tighter restirctions and guidelines for drilling offshore.

On the afternoon of January 29, 1969, an environmental nightmare began in Santa Barbara, California. A Union Oil Co. platform stationed six miles off the coast of Summerland suffered a blowout. Oil workers had drilled a well down 3500 feet below the ocean floor. Riggers began to retrieve the pipe in order to replace a drill bit when the “mud” used to maintain pressure became dangerously low. A natural gas blowout occurred. An initial attempt to cap the hole was successful but led to a tremendous buildup of pressure. The expanding mass created five breaks in an east-west fault on the ocean floor, releasing oil and gas from deep beneath the earth.

For eleven days, oil workers struggled to cap the rupture. During that time, 200,000 gallons of crude oil bubbled to the surface and was spread into a 800 square mile slick by winds and swells. Incoming tides brought the thick tar to beaches from Rincon Point to Goleta, marring 35 miles of coastline. Beaches with off-shore kelp forests were spared the worst as kelp fronds kept most of the tar from coming ashore. The slick also moved south, tarring Anacapa Island’s Frenchy’s Cove and beaches on Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and San Miguel Islands

i’ll see what else I can find and post

CSPAN has it up, scroll down to Recent Programs.

Pickens gives his opening statement at about 15 minutes, 54 seconds, Q&A starts around 45 minutes, 40 seconds.

The above statements from Pickens are at 1 hour, 19 minutes.

okay, you get to drill offshore – now what about that long dead horse y’all been floggin’ about how the poor extractionists can’t build anymore refineries because of the prohibitive costs of environmental regulations -

now which is it assholes ?!!??