If you have never heard of this you are dumber than a dog turd.
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Your factual comments contributed to the thread but your off handed emotional comment was totally unnecessary. What do you expect to accomplish by making crude and insulting comments like this?
Instead of calling you dumber than dog shit, I could have called you a low information voter.
20 years ago they said people would become better informed if they used the internet and that was true for some people but not for all people because some people accumulated in certain places for chit chat and collective misinformation.
You have been on the internet at least 17 years and have never taken the time to learn about offshore drilling.
You are pitifully and poorly informed to the point that you are dumber than a dog turd.
Which means that it is easy for the politicians to fool you.
Offshore drilling is the exception and not the rule because most states don't allow offshore drilling because they don't make a dime of royalty but a spill from offshore drilling can destroy that state's coastal economy.