Well, be sure just to keep riding you bicycle so we wont need that oil, and you cant use any plastic, and how about this list of about 150 items.
So do you swear to stop using all those items for the polar bears?
What you actually said was "That would be a square just over 432 miles long on each side. I don't think this small piece of land will stop oil exploration."
Since the 187,000 is a strip running down the coast - it would impact a much larger area off shore where the drilling would be banned.
Don't be embarrassed though - liberals usually work off of feelings rather than facts or information - so your error is natural.
Let's say you own a 1,500 square foot house that is 50'x30'. Let's say that the government decides that you can't use 160 square feet of this house. That's just a small portion of your 1,500 square foot home, right?! You'd be ok with that, right? Let's also say that the 160 square feet just happened to be around the perimeter of your house, making it so that you couldn't enter or exit your house. You'd be ok with that, right?!