COMMENTARY: Energy bill threatens the California coastline [Boxer Alert]

Sonoma West ^ | 2006/02/22 | Senator Barbara Boxer

[ncountylee]

Hey Barbara...I live on the coast and want offshore drilling.

[thackney]

BTTT

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I live on the west coast and support offshore drilling as well.

[jazusamo]

People can come up with the identical argument against drilling in any of our 50 states. Drilling technology is vastly improved and we should be taking advantage of that technology.

[KarlInOhio]

Preventing off-shore drilling is a bigger threat to the US than Dubai World Ports taking over our ports.

[Brett66]

I wonder if eminent domain could trump these NIMBY's that don't care about America's startegic needs.

[ncountylee]

Funny thing that my neighbors all support drilling also and we are right on the sand.

[Wiseghy]

Offshore platforms are pretty at night and the technology is lightyears safer than it ever was before.

Di-fi and Boxer can sit at home in the dark. Since their only answer is conservation, I guess that is their plan. I prefer to have electric power and gas in my hybrid, thank you.

[mugs99]

I wonder if eminent domain could trump these NIMBY's that don't care about America's startegic needs.

No, but the Commerce Clause could.
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[Dawggie]

I look forward to those pretty lights when I walk with my sweetie on the shore. So romantic. Also a good way to get back at those pesky birds which seem to like my truck so much.

[bayourant]

As a Louisina citizen I could say so much right now to this

[singfreedom]

These same asses don't want us to drill in Alaska either, despite the fact most of that state's population also want drilling. Just what is their answer?? Whale oil lamps?

Being a citizen of traditional oil country (husbie is in "the bidness") I think it's about time some other geographical area helps with our national energy needs. There ARE other places, but coastal drilling offers very rich, although expensive to drill, deposits of oil.

Years ago, when we visited San Diego, I had to ask what those funny structures were miles off the coast. I was told, laughingly, that those were their oil wells---camoflaged. Here, I had lived around rigs, pumps, even derricks all my life, and I couldn't even recognize those things as "wells"!! Amazing, we're proud of our oil heritage, that we've powered the county's growth, and the Californians want to cover theirs up.

[timer]

Lois Capps was born Lois Grimsrud, my good friend Tom's big sister. Their father was the pastor at the lutheran church kitty corner across the street in Kalispell, MT. Her grand father was the main guy at the lutheran seminary in Fargo, ND. Her uncle, by marriage, was Kenneth Arnold(remember "flying saucers"). I remember Lois very well, Freda is her and Tom's little sister. O'Reilly once took her to task for a bill to fund lasar removal of tattoos. Our mutual friend, also in that church and HS classmate, is Myron Nordquist, Sen Conrad Burns'(R-MT)private attorney. As dems go, Lois isn't all that bad, her liberalism is more from a christian perspective, not the hollywood-porn crowd. Point : not all dems are bad people, wrong on many issues but their heart is right; I think of them as the "santa claus" party...

[CrawDaddyCA]

As a Louisina citizen I could say so much right now to this

I'll do one better, I'm a Louisiana citizen that works in the oil & gas industry, and I'm on a dive boat in the Gulf of Mexico repairing the pipelines that were damaged by both hurricanes. I'll say what you are too much of a gentlemen to say:

To all of those that don't want offshore drilling: You can sit and freeze in the dark!

[singfreedom]

AMEN.

[pacpam]

Boxer seems to forget the beaches were littered with oil globs before drilling began from the pressures that forced it through ground fissures in the ocean. The beaches are much nicer since the platforms started dotting the landscape. I look out at four and have no problem seeing more.

[somniferum]

Ditto.

I cant understand why my state (MS), which is sitting on (so Ive heard) untapped oil and natural gas reserves refuses to allow drilling off the coast. Those royalties could go a long way towards rebuilding after Katrina, and generate some good paying jobs along the way.

[ncountylee]

I look out at two and have no problem seeing more.

[jazusamo]

I remember the the beaches at Newport Beach and Balboa in the 50's would be covered with oils globs from time to time. At the time we thought it from ships pumping their bilges.