Perhaps Kerry has yet another Secret Plan re American energy and oil dependency...
Posted on 03/10/2005 2:13:25 PM PST by snowsislander
Television ads urging Florida Sen. Mel Martinez to vote against oil and gas drilling in Alaska are scheduled to begin airing today in the Orlando and Tallahassee areas.
The campaign, paid for by several environmental groups, asks viewers to call the offices of the freshman Republican senator from Orlando and urge him to oppose opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration.
The theme: Alaska is a ''slippery slope'' that could lead to drilling off the west coast of Florida and other parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
''If you can do it in the Arctic, you can do it anywhere,'' said Charles Lee, vice president of Audubon of Florida, which is funding the ads with the National Wildlife Federation, Florida Wildlife Federation, Florida Conservation Alliance and a former Alaska resident.
The Bush administration has been pushing plans to open up Alaska and sections of the Gulf of Mexico for years, arguing that untapped oil reserves are essential to reduce dependence on foreign imports. But federal officials have pledged not to drill directly off Florida's coast.
In response to questions about the ad, Martinez's Washington office released a statement that he opposes drilling off Florida but is still studying the Arctic issue.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore drilling ''are two separate and distinct issues -- apples and oranges,'' Martinez said. ``The effort to try and link them together simply weakens our own argument that offshore drilling must never happen off our coasts.''
His vote could be pivotal in a sharply divided Senate.
Vinay Jain, a spokesman for the National Wildlife Federation, said the ads will run for a week on cable and local networks.
Time to write and tell him he has to vote yes !!!!!
(I will be writing a letter, by the way.)
What the hell is a "local" network?? These leftists are going to lose BIG TIME. I want to take note of who they are...and when ANWR DRILLING passes, I'm going to call them up and laugh. LOL.
JEB dont want it and brother wont push it.....simple as that unfortunately......
Perhaps Kerry has yet another Secret Plan re Amercian energy and oil dependency...
Governor Bush is indeed opposed. If his case is built around his responsibility for administering Florida (and I imagine that it is), that is certainly a position that I can respect, although not one that I agree with myself.
Perhaps Kerry has yet another Secret Plan re American energy and oil dependency...
Senator Kerry's election would have been a disaster of the first water. From appeasement to energy policy, from Social Security to tax increases, he would simply have been the wrong man for the job in any year. His election would have however delighted the Communist party, which not only endorsed him, but worked hard on his election effort. And now they are gnashing their teeth at President Bush's proposed reform of their pet socialist scheme, Social Security.
Liberal Special Interests pressing buttons in Florida to prevent people in Alaska from getting their oil...sort of sums up everything that is wrong with the system right there!
Hey, if they don't want offshore drilling, commence the drilling from a site ONSHORE, and send the drill angle laterally. It it works in ANWR, it would work in Hernando County, Florida.
The entire drilling and pumping machinery could be built within a simulated high-rise facade, and would blend right in with condo developments on either side.
Or establish a drilling base from some uninhabited island in the Gulf of Mexico, like the Dry Tortugas. The objection on the part of Jeb Bush is that the residents do not want to see any unsightly oil rigs on the horizon from the upper levels of the high-rises along the Gulf Coast.
But why drill for petroleum at all? Just mine the bottom of the continental shelf for Methane Hydrate, extract natural gas from that substance, compress it to LNG, and haul tanker load after tanker load out of the depths for delivery to the natural gas pipeline system already in place in most parts of the US. Enough billions of cubic feet of natural gas would displace a vast quantity of the crude and refined petroleum products we now import.
The entire drilling and pumping machinery could be built within a simulated high-rise facade, and would blend right in with condo developments on either side.
Or establish a drilling base from some uninhabited island in the Gulf of Mexico, like the Dry Tortugas. The objection on the part of Jeb Bush is that the residents do not want to see any unsightly oil rigs on the horizon from the upper levels of the high-rises along the Gulf Coast.
But why drill for petroleum at all? Just mine the bottom of the continental shelf for Methane Hydrate, extract natural gas from that substance, compress it to LNG, and haul tanker load after tanker load out of the depths for delivery to the natural gas pipeline system already in place in most parts of the US. Enough billions of cubic feet of natural gas would displace a vast quantity of the crude and refined petroleum products we now import.
Indeed. There are other ways Florida could go without having to put platforms within eyeshot. I myself say open all avenues up, but as you point out, Florida could easily have a win-win by going other routes for extraction of its resources.
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