At today's Republican debate in Dearborn, Mich., several candidates were asked whether Florida and California's coasts should be open to oil and gas drilling. Both states enjoy protections now. Each candidate stuck to what he's said -- or how he's voted -- before.

The Buzz's favorite answer came from Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who said residents of states that rebuff drilling shouldn't be allowed to use the oil drilled off other states, like Louisiana.

And the audience applauded.

(Buzz wonders, does that mean Colorado shouldn't get any oranges?)

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: "You don't draw the line anywhere. What you do is, you work with people to try to advance all of these technologies.

"You can't do everything. You can't do long-term damage to our environment. That would be a mistake. That would be an overreaction. You have to make sound judgments, and you have to advance these new technologies."

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas: "I think that you go in every place that you can to find resources."

Rep. Tom Tancredo: "You bet. I would agree to exploration off the coasts. I mean, it's -- how fair is it, today, that, Louisiana is producing all the oil that California and other (states) are consuming, and they refuse to allow the exploration of oil off the coasts?

"I'd say, you know, if you won't allow it, you can't use it, the stuff that we're getting from Louisiana... So, yes, you better drill every place you can here."

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz: "I wouldn't drill off the coast of Florida unless the people of Florida wanted to. And I wouldn't drill off the coast of California unless the people of California wanted to. And I wouldn't drill in the Grand Canyon unless the people in Arizona wanted to."

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee wasn't directly asked, but he volunteered that, "We're in a race. We're in a race for our lives against people who want to kill us. And a lot of the reasons that we are entangled in the Middle East is because our money buys their oil, that money ends up coming back to us in the way of Islamo-fascism terrorists.

"We've got to come to the place where everything is on the table: nuclear, biofuels, ethanol, wind, solar - any and everything this country can produce."

Two contenders, former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, weren't asked. In the past, Thompson has said he wouldn't "take anything off the table" in terms of energy production. And Romney, in an interview with the St. Petersburg Times in March, was a tad vague.

"More drilling? Absolutely," Romney said. "Where you drill, that is something that states and communities and the federal government will have to come to a meeting of the minds on."