Florida Tourist Group Endorses Drilling 30 Miles Offshore

[scooterbug44]

Yes, let's destroy our environment so they can build new oil refineries with fewer controls. :roll:

OR we could keep environmental regulations and look for alternatives to keep "future oil shocks" from affecting our economy so much.

If only someone had a plan for doing this ........................ paging T. Boone!!!

 

[Matt J]

That makes perfect sense. Relax the environmental regulations to the point that we destroy the environment and ourselves. Then we won't run out of oil.

Let me guess, Exxon and BP booked Disney World for a convention?

 

[traderx]

Yes, let's destroy our environment so they can build new oil refineries with fewer controls. :roll:

OR we could keep environmental regulations and look for alternatives to keep "future oil shocks" from affecting our economy so much.

If only someone had a plan for doing this ........................ paging T. Boone!!!

Doesn't T. Boone support more drilling as part of a total approach to energy independence?

 

[scooterbug44]

Yes, he thinks we should drill and utilize our domestic resources, but he has also repeated stated "we can't drill our way out of this problem."

Natural gas and other alternative fuels are the only long term solution.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Would rigs 20 miles offshore really be an environmental catastrophe?
For what it is worth, there are rigs closer than that off of Louisiana's coast and I don't remember seeing gobs of black goop on the beach at Grande Isle when I went fishing there in the 1980s and 1990s. There was plenty of junk that looked like it probably had been pitched off the platforms-bottles, cups, etc, however, that stuff could have been thrown into the Mississippi River by somebody in St Louis.

The only place I ever have gotten something that resembled oil on my feet on a beach was in Ft Lauderdale where there are no rigs;it was called 'tar', God only knows where it came from but when we got back to our grandparent's house they washed it off our feet with gasoline!

I am not saying it is the right thing to do, only that there is probably ample hyperbole when the environmental impact is described by those opposed to drilling. I know for a fact the fish love those platforms!

 

[30ashopper]

Yes, he thinks we should drill and utilize our domestic resources, but he has also repeated stated "we can't drill our way out of this problem."

Natural gas and other alternative fuels are the only long term solution.

Pensacola sits off one of the largest untapped natural gas reserves in the country. (It's called the "Destin Dome".)

 

[scooterbug44]

Is natural gas washing up on shore a big problem?

 

[30ashopper]

Interesting note, we've already had extensive exploratory drilling off our coast - the little black dots indicate wells drilled:

 

[traderx]

?The technology of the drilling industry may have improved, but offshore drilling is a dirty business, and it still leads to oil spills due to failed equipment, aberrant weather, or human error on a frequent basis,? Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said in July 19?s Houston Chronicle.

Feinstein is correct. U.S. offshore oil drilling is not perfectly tidy. It?s only 99.999 percent clean. Indeed, since 1980 ? as MMS figures indicate ? 101,997 barrels spilled from among the 11.855 billion barrels of American oil extracted offshore. This is a 0.001 percent pollution rate. While offshore drilling is not 100-percent spotless, this record should satisfy all but the terminally fastidious.

Ironically, in terms of oil contamination, Mother Nature is 95 times dirtier than man. Some 620,500 barrels of oil ooze organically from North America?s ocean floors each year. Compare this to the average 6,555 barrels that oil companies have spilled annually since 1998, according to MMS.

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YTA1MTBlMjdhMjM4NWU4NDczN2IxM2RkNGExNWRjMDM=

 

[Beach Runner]

.. we could avoid future oil shocks that drive the economy into a recession?

Several economists I've heard say that the economic problems are not just in the U.S. and not merely due to our lack of sustainability with respect to oil. Rather, there is a global recession going on. For example, manufacturing, most notably the automotive industry, is suffering in other countries as is true in the U.S.