The organization should be renamed as The National Academies of Political Science.
Why?
Florida Tourist Group Endorses Drilling 30 Miles Offshore
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At the same time, however, new studies show that the environmental effects of a major oil spill are longer lasting than once thought and that even small amounts of petroleum can seriously damage marine life and ecosystems.
The exploration and extraction of oil and natural gas introduces 880,000 gallons of petroleum to North American waters each year. These leaks are concentrated where oil-drilling rigs are at work in the Gulf of Mexico and in waters off southern California, northern Alaska, and eastern Canada.
Worldwide, about 210 million gallons of petroleum enter the sea each year from the extraction, transportation, and consumption of crude oil and the products refined from it, with an additional 180 million gallons coming from natural seepage, the report says.
It isn't how much but where it is concentrated. Mother Nature doesn't dump thousands of gallons in one location along the shore in one incident. I think we would be mistaken to compare our oil discharge to that of Mother Nature.
The report is from The National Academies of Science not the National Review so I guess it could be BS.
I'm not sure what National Review has to do with this, but I still call BS on the assertion that the 'toxins' that seep out of oil rigs kill off marine life. I know from experience this is hooey. If you need visual proof, do the link:
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...start=72&gbv=2&ndsp=18&hl=en&safe=active&sa=N
We could see signs like this in the future:
Is that a picture from the townhomes across from the Tom Thumb in Seagrove? It sure looks like it and they have a lot of peat in that area.
Shell Perdido Oil Platform Creature...See, this is what happens when they drill offshore. Next thing you know they will be walking amongst us. ;-)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OI-S8Ttiyo"]YouTube - Alien, New creature type of squid has been spotted over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OI-S8Ttiyo"]YouTube - Alien, New creature type of squid has been spotted over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans[/ame]
I saw this earlier today. They have developed knees to walk so they can invest in cheap ocean front real estate having the best of both worlds.
United Health Foundation reports Louisiana ranks last for overall health saying the dismal ranking has to do with the large percentage of uninsured residents, the large number of children who live in poverty and high rates of infant deaths, premature deaths, preventable hospitilizations and cancer deaths.
We won't do that though. Remember this summer when gas was at 5.00 a gallon? A majority of Americans were pushing for drilling. If those prices had sustained for a more extended period of time, the drill or not to drill debate would have been over by now. I think this should be broken up into two arguments - while I find the arguments for not drilling for NG off Florida's coast worthy of discussion, the argument for not drilling in a place like ANWR is silly. We have Federal land up there, it's an empty desolate place, and we already drill nearby. The eco-ninnys are worried about some Caraboe?? That's just silly. We need to put our security ahead such pointless concerns.
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