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[Tarpon]

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.

[bboop]

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//

[bray]

Make them look like Disney Castles and everyone wins.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Yo-Yo]

"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.

[AlaskaErik]

Amazing how high gas prices have a way of changing people’s minds. Pretty soon we’ll be drilling in ANWR!

[Charles Martel]

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.

[Red_Devil 232]

May be when the tourists don’t show up they will tar and feather Wexler and Wasserman Schultz.

[Mikey_1962]

Drill the Destin Dome now!

[Gator113]

“........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....

[pnh102]

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.

[C19fan]

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.

[brushcop]

"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!

[Salvation]

 

 

Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.

U. S. Senate

U. S. House of Representatives

[jrd]

heck just let them pay twice what the rest of the states are paying. It won;t be long before they'll begging to drill’

[truthguy]

The amount of damage (basically none) to the environment of oil drilling has been greatly exaggerated. Oil Platforms are far out and usually not visible from shore. I have no problems drilling for oil anywhere on the continental shelf. Heck I'd like to see drilling off the Big Sur coast for no other reason than to irritate the jerks that live there.

[SamiGirl]

“...nobody is going to come here if there is drilling,” said Ms. Sharp”

I guess Ms. Sharp ain’t so sharp. And this idiot is running a marketing firm?

[television is just wrong]

drill! now

[meyer]

"... nobody is going to come here if there is drilling," said Ms. Sharp, 39 years old, who runs a marketing firm with her husband.

OK, Ms. Not-so-sharp, answer this quiz.... How is anybody going to get 'there' if they can't afford to fuel their car?

[I still care]

“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”

Nobody is going to come here if they can’t afford the gas, Ms. Sharp.