Offshore drilling bill passes house - CONTACT YOUR SENATORS!
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Yes, and now we have plans by the OA to bulldoze hundreds of acres of pristine habitat Mohave desert without an environmental impact study for solar farms. ....and should you really be playing around with a captive dolphin?
Not interested in destroying the desert...don't see how that wrong makes it right to destroy the marine environment anymore than we already have.
Dolphin was over fed but by no means captive...
Floridians please let our senators know how we feel about off shore oil drilling...
Senators :Member Pages : flsenate.gov
Senators :Member Pages : flsenate.gov
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Ummm....less oil is leaked from drill rigs than leaks naturally from the ocean bed!
No matter how hard we try to "think" we are technologically advanced enough to get off of oil, we are not. Nothing yet has meet the power to weight ratio of oil derived fuel.
Finally...as someone that DOES care about the environment...you do know that wind mills/farms kill THOUSANDS of birds a year, right?
DRILL BABY, DRILL! Let the eco nuts who want to stop the drilling move to Saudi Arabia and protest there. I'm sick of my dollars going to fund the wealth of people that hate us and treat women like dirt. Drilling rigs will only help the environment by providing more fish habitats. Not to mention the GOOD PAYING JOBS that the communist president promised and those that will be created to support the entire industry. I'm sending out a part now for use in the drilling industry. I'd like to see us send out thousands of them and maybe we could call back the people that got laid off here yesterday! And thanks to the changelings we no longer live in a democracy. Just look at Queen Nancy and the crap she is pulling.
Redaman
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Maybe somebody else mentioned this, but coming from the oil industry myself, the business part of me says, Offshore Drilling is a good thing... it creates jobs, improves commerce in the communities associated with oil drilling and production, etc...
For those who are against it, I can understand their point too, however, petroleum based products are used to create other products that we use everyday, and not just for your car or truck. Whether we like it or not, oil will never go away (not in our lifetime anyway) and neither will our dependence on it unless we go back to living in a Hunter/Gatherer society... oh wait... THEY used Kerosene!! let's go back 100 years before that.... OH Wait!! They used petroleum based products then too!!
That's my 2 cents.
mase
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Humans are destructive that is a fact. But please don't tell me more birds/animals are killed by wind mills and wind farms than the environment has been destroyed by the thirst for oil...
Use less conserve more. Not drill more.
Maybe somebody else mentioned this, but coming from the oil industry myself, the business part of me says, Offshore Drilling is a good thing... it creates jobs, improves commerce in the communities associated with oil drilling and production, etc...
For those who are against it, I can understand their point too, however, petroleum based products are used to create other products that we use everyday, and not just for your car or truck. Whether we like it or not, oil will never go away (not in our lifetime anyway) and neither will our dependence on it unless we go back to living in a Hunter/Gatherer society... oh wait... THEY used Kerosene!! let's go back 100 years before that.... OH Wait!! They used petroleum based products then too!!
That's my 2 cents.
You are right about our need for petroleum. My job and quality of life depends on it too. However, don't you think we can be more efficient with our use of it. Maybe like use it to power more public transportation?
