Posted on 04/29/2006 5:51:30 PM PDT by I got the rope
Even without the votes the President should be screaming the fact Congress has not and continues not to do its' job.
My family has been in Florida since at least the late 1700's. I love the beaches but why does that have anything to do with drilling for oil? In the very unlikely event of an oil spill that far offshore the damage would be minimal and hey it eventually goes away anyway.
they will spin that to the sheeple as "drilling 40 miles off Cuba" - the sheeple can't figure out that cuba is 90 miles away, so its 50 miles from florida.
But...but...but think of the manatees! (sniffle, sob)
BTW, IIRC a couple of years ago the manatees were having it rough during a harsh winter. They were hanging out in the warm water outflows of the FLP plants. Did my "Save a Manatee, Build a Power Plant" campaign ever take off?
There, I fixed it.
In many cases the impact can be economically devastating to locals; ranging from tourism based businesses through fishermen.
Despite that, we should be in place as many safeguards as possible, insure that contingency plans provide for impact and recovery, and go for it.
This must be a record, only took 37 posts before that old favorite, treason, appeared. You all use that word so often, its lost its meaning.
Even more punishing would be to simplify the permit process for and remove some of the regulations on building new refineries. That'll sock it to them!
The problem the Republicans have now is they can't blame the Socialists(Dems) about not being able to drill offshore, because Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida who ran as a Republican, has stopped the offshore drilling in his State.
The Socialists(Dems) are now in a position to beef about Castro drilling 45 miles off Florida on the Cuba side of the line, and we can't drill off Florida because of Jeb Bush. - tom
where does "off the coast of florida" end? 100 miles is not enough, now florida wants 260 miles of control?
I dunno. China, a country that has said war with the U.S. is inevitable, is apparently going to drill in Gulf waters off of Cuba, while our politicians get their panties in a wad over drilling in the Gulf off of Florida. So China will continue to strengthen while we continue to strangle ourselves. The advantage goes to China. None dare call this treason.
No but if his kids are buying their own gas they will be.
I think that's what this is all about. Record the Donks opposing oil development while gas hit 43.
Jealous?
the margin for a loss on this in the senate - will come from republican votes. so long as that is in play, this goes nowhere politically.
LOL!!!!
George, Jeb, and the oil copanies made a deal in 2001 on Area 181. Domenici and Bingaman are trying to enshrine that deal while Nelson and Martinez are trying to undo it.
You are kidding right...$4 dollars a gallon is realistic for gas this summer.
People will be screaming bloody murder for someone to do something about it...and all before the November elections! LOL. The 'rats are sunk...and maybe the RINOs will finally pull their head out of their fourth point of contact.
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