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With Oil's Rise, Floridians Shift on Drilling
wsj.com ^
| June 23, 2008
| COREY DADE and STEPHEN POWER
Posted on 06/24/2008 4:47:48 PM PDT by kellynla
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:47:48 PM PDT
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kellynla
To: thackney
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:48:10 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
I think most of the rigs are way out of sight. From land, anyway.
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:51:36 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: kellynla
Tourism and the money they supply disappearing didn't help much. Gov Crist sees the lease money as helping the doomed Florida budget.
The Destin Dome has enough natural gas to run Florida's power stations for decades. No one even knows how much is there. The alternative, and far more risky venture is shipping the crude oil in by barge, which is done now.
I never understood why those gigantic bird Cuisinarts are so cute and those hardly visible oil well pump heads are so ugly --- Makes no sense does it.
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:55:08 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
To: kellynla
We have drilling here in CA off the coast, in between Santa Barbara and Ventura. They decorate the platforms like ‘islands’ and you barely notice them. Sheesh, such whining. Don’t they know, their choice is actually between being self-sustaining and being beholden to terrorists? It is not between living in the Garden of Eden or NOT.
//rolling eyes//
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:56:38 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: kellynla
Make them look like Disney Castles and everyone wins.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:57:09 PM PDT
by
bray
(Drill Congress!!!)
To: kellynla
"If it's going to help with gas prices, as long as they put it far enough out that we don't see it." For a person standing at water's edge, the horizon is about 3 miles away. From a 10 story Condo, it's about 14 miles away.
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posted on
06/24/2008 4:59:57 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: kellynla
It's amazing how NIMBY attitudes change abruptly when someone else's problem suddenly becomes yours..... HA!
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:00:50 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Barak and Michelle: The Sheik and The Freak.)
To: kellynla
Amazing how high gas prices have a way of changing people’s minds. Pretty soon we’ll be drilling in ANWR!
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:00:54 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: kellynla
Ms. Jenkins quickly cut in. "Do what you've got to do," the 35-year-old schoolteacher said. "If it's going to help with gas prices, as long as they put it far enough out that we don't see it." Admittedly this is a small sample, but it seems that one out of every two Floridians have discovered that the Earth is round and that oil rigs are typically located over the horizon.
It's a start.
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:01:07 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: kellynla
May be when the tourists don’t show up they will tar and feather Wexler and Wasserman Schultz.
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:01:47 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: kellynla
Drill the Destin Dome now!
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:01:57 PM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(Just a typical white guy: clinging to my guns, my religion, and my antipathy...)
To: kellynla
“........as long as they put it far enough out that we don’t see it.”
Well lady, we were thinking that we would drill for oil in places... where the fricken oil IS.
These hanging chad folks must have very small brains....
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:02:50 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(Drill here, drill now, or face the hangman.)
To: Viking2002
Those drill platforms and well heads make excellet fishing grounds. I am for all drill, off Florida, say starting 10 miles out. Well heads can be made very small and are not really visible from 3 miles a way.
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:05:03 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
To: kellynla
These people are like the jerks who whine about lack of cell phone coverage but oppose new cell phone towers because they are unsightly. Thanks to them, we all suffer.
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:10:33 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
To: kellynla
This is such a big part of our economy and our lifestyle; nobody is going to come here if there is drilling," said Ms. Sharp, 39 years old, who runs a marketing firm with her husband.Uhhh.. Mrs. Sharp given $4+ gas prices and the airlines shrinking and hiking fares nobody will be afford to come to your state. Look at the bright side. At least you will be able to stroll the beaches by yourself and you will no longer have to wait 1 hour to go on a ride at Disney World.
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:11:05 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
We put off our yearly vacation this year. Granted it was to Hawaii and not Florida, but the cost of one wk’s hotel and airfare was outrageous. We said nope, better things to do with our money.
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:14:19 PM PDT
by
sheana
To: kellynla
"If it's going to help with gas prices, as long as they put it far enough out that we don't see it." But it's okay if you cover our beautiful West Texas with wind generators. Get a life California, DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS!
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:27:43 PM PDT
by
brushcop
(We remember SSG Harrison Brown, PVT Andrew Simmons B CO 2/69 3ID KIA Iraq OIF IV)
To: kellynla
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:30:31 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Tarpon
I'm assuming from your moniker that you live in the area. And damn straight, those pilings make for great fishing grounds. I envy you guys - while I'm farting around, looking for bass, gar, and anything else I can find in these muddy waters, you're out there hitting the real deal. Like I should complain. I've lived in Alabama for ten years, I'm three hours from Gulf Shores, and the last time I did any saltwater fishing, it was with a rented rig from a pier in St. Augustine. LOL
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posted on
06/24/2008 5:31:31 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Barak and Michelle: The Sheik and The Freak.)
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