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Gulf oil spill: Interior secretary says spill ‘very, very rare event’

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Despite the looming catastrophe in the gulf, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the administration is not ready to reverse course on the need for off-shore drilling.

“There are 30,000 wells that have drilled out in the Gulf of Mexico, and so this is a very, very rare event,” he said on ABC’s ‘This Week.’ The oil from those off-shore rigs accounts for 30% of the nation’s domestic oil production, he added. “And so for us to turn off those spigots would have a very, very huge impact on America’s economy right now.”

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-- Geoff Mohan

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