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COMMENTS: Chevron Strikes PR Gusher
ABC anchor Charles Gibson took us on a helicopter trip 160 miles offshore over the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico to publicize his primetime documentary Over the Barrel. This particular segment concerned efforts to increase domestic production of oil. Just as his colleague David Muir had done last summer, Gibson offered free publicity to Chevron's deep sea drilling. The platform Gibson visited floats over a seabed wellhead 7,000 feet down and pumps oil from deposits another 25,000 feet below that. Yet Gibson concluded by quoting the caution from veteran oilman T Boone Pickens: "No amount of drilling will be enough to make us independent of foreign oil."
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