What is your position on drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico? POLL!

Bradenton Herald ^ | 03/09/2006 | escott

[ruffisthudpucker]

What is your position on drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico?

http://forums.bradenton.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=kr-bradflanews&msg=8.1&ctx=0

[Tarpon]

Yes, the rigs make great fishing holes.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Is there a good reason not to?

[Erik Latranyi]

Ha. 26 to 9 so far!

Show the enviro-weenies we mean business!

[kittymyrib]

So that Florida can reap billions of oil dollars instead of losing billions when tourists can't afford the gas to keep that industry alive? So that Florica can stop being an energy parasite, living off the fuel provided by TX and LA on the other side of the Gulf for the past 100 years?

[dhuffman@awod.com]

A poll is the truest form of direct democracy and democracy is the rule of fools by fools - as Floriduh has well shown. The democrats and republicans form America's cacocracy - they're not different.

[Young Werther]

Bend over and spread 'em!

ANWAR think ANWAR!

BTW it would be cheaper and easier to convert the obsolete coal fired electrical generating plants to gasification and liquification plants one we've:

CHANGED THE LIGHTBULBS!

[nuf said]

We need to use nuclear energy. We have figured out that something called atoms exist and that by splitting them we can harness near limitless energy! Why go ruining some of the best beaches in the world just because the oil companies want more of a monopoly on energy? Have you ever been to a beach where oil rigs are offshore? Little tar balls are hidden, embedded in the sand and make their presence known when you step or lay on them, yuk! Then you need a stinky solvent to wash it off.

Besides, nuke power doesnt cause greenhouse gasses so even the environmentalists should love it!!!

[L98Fiero]

"Besides, nuke power doesnt cause greenhouse gasses so even the environmentalists should love it!!!"

You would think so, wouldn't you? In order to do that, they would have to admit Conservatives were right about nuclear energy for the last 40 years and they were wrong. I don't see that happening, unfortunately.

[cripplecreek]

We need energy diversity.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

Bogus poll. They have split the "Yes" responses into two scenarios to dillute the results. "NO" can win this vote with less than 50%. Once the enviroweenies get onto this, they only have a single choice.

[Free_SJersey]

Drill in the Gulf, drill in Alaska, drill on the continental shelf off N.J. Put rigs around Martha's Vineyard. Heck, put one in my backyard. If there's oil, get it.

2H2O=2H2 + O2 = 2H2O looks pretty on paper, but the reality is the the efficiency of scale is not there. Unless someone comes up with a magic wand to produce H2 without huge inputs of energy (that come from where?) it never will. Plow the field, plant the seed, prevent blights and bugs, harvest the corn (or sorghum, beets, sugar cane,etc), make a mash and ferment, distill ethanol and find a way to utilize mountains of waste, without huge subsidies, won't ever be economical.

[Allegra]

What is your position on drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico?

Drill it, baby!

We were drilling it there in the 70s and early 80s and Houston was riding high.

Works for me. ;-)

[Sam Cree]

Go for it! Immediately!

[zipp_city]

I think I would tie it to a bill to require windmills in The North East

[Free_SJersey]

Put an oil rig in my yard but don't put another fission plant anywhere. There is no viable way to handle the glowing pools of waste we have now laying around at existing plants, without producing more.

Now fusion, well, I'll take one of those please, if they can ever make it happen without mega-joule inputs and questionable containment.

[Smokin' Joe]

I figured this had to be Florida, because otherwise, we already do.

[Smokin' Joe]

Iirc, rig crews and personnel are not permitted to fish from the rigs. That keeps me onshore.

[Recon Dad]

TORA, TORA, TORA........SO SORRY I MEANT DRILL, DRILL, ETC..

[Smokin' Joe]

Little tarballs were washing up at Santa Barbara long before there were oil rigs. If anything, depleting the reservoirs feeding the submarine oil seep (natural seep) slows the rate of seepage.

More oil gets in the oceans from natural seeps than oil rigs and production platforms, and no oil company wants to lose money over the side.