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Brightest Ideas of the Week — August 31, 2008

By Whitney Blake
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Santa Barbara says drill here, drill now

1| Supervisors vote to lift drilling ban.

The Details: Drilling off California’s coast was banned after the 1969 oil spill near Santa Barbara. But a majority of that city’s supervisors sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a letter saying “significant technological improvements on methods of extraction have been made which should appreciably mitigate such spills from happening in the future.”

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