Alabama businesses could benefit if more of Gulf of Mexico opened to oil and gas drilling | al.com

Alabama businesses could benefit if more of Gulf of Mexico opened to oil and gas drilling | al.com: "Local business leaders are promoting Mobile as the logical supply base for exploration in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, including the area that President Barack Obama proposed opening Wednesday.

'We want to position ourselves to be the first in line,' said Steve Russell with the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce.

The area included in Obama's sweeping plan begins 125 miles south of the Florida Panhandle, and runs eastward in a lopsided triangle."