Florida County Commissioner Pushes for GOM Oil Drilling

Tampa Tribune via Rig Zone ^ | March 27, 2008 | Julia Ferrante

[Cyber Liberty]

This is an act of war! Kick these people to the curb!

I would but I'm afraid they'd enjoy it too much....

[Bitsy]

Oil derricks are good for fishing..

The best fishing in the world is by the stanchions of an oil rig - both on top of the water and scuba. My cousin held a world's record for the largest Jew fish speared and he did it by the oil rigs. Also if you are a deer hunter, the deer cross the pipelines that weave through the woods in Louisiana and I assume other places as well. To my knowledge, there has never been a problem with spillage or pollution of the waters. These people are chicken littles with brains and spines to match. I would just like to slap them into reality!

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[River_Wrangler]

Yeah, Florida would be in danger of an oil spill in the Gulf........If the Gulf stream ran a different direction. Well, I guess we can count on Cuba and China to drill safer than the leader in world drilling technology. Maybe it would be better to quit sending fuel to Florida from Louisiana, Texas and other states that utilize our part of the Gulf to produce fuel for Florida.

[hosepipe]

[ Yeah, Florida would be in danger of an oil spill in the Gulf........If the Gulf stream ran a different direction. ]

The Gulf Stream is on the east cosat of Florida the oil is on the west coast..

[thackney]

Once Cuba get the drilling going. Florida can hope their practices are as good as ours. A bad Cuba spill could bring oil to Florida waters. Of course if we allowed our own drilling, we would have oil spill response equipment on hand.

The Gulf Loop is a strong current in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. It can be a short loop (Step 1), or stretched very long (Step 2). When it is long, it often pinches off a spinning body of water called an eddy (Step 3). These eddies drift westward over many weeks (Step 4). They slowly lose energy in the western Gulf. This cycle repeats itself several times a year.

[thackney]

This pictures shows better how the Gulf Stream normally brings water from Cuba past Florida.

[River_Wrangler]

The Gulf Stream is on the east cosat of Florida the oil is on the west coast..

The Gulf Stream comes into the gulf through the Yucatan straights, splits in half with one current turning north just off the Florida coast then looping south of New Orleans and rejoining the main current in an easterly direction. The other half continues through the Florida Straights turning to the north by north east to continue past Nova Scotia. It is in the Gulf...... that may be why it is called the GULF STREAM

The largest find is actually on the southern side of Florida. See post 26

[River_Wrangler]

Actually that map is incorrect. The direction of the counter current flows from east to west and the main current is mid gulf. I have made a livng running boats for almost 40 years. Trust me.;0)

[thackney]

The Gulf Stream comes into the gulf through the Yucatan straights, splits in half with one current turning north just off the Florida coast then looping south of New Orleans and rejoining the main current in an easterly direction

. The direction of the counter current flows from east to west...

Which is it?

As the current flows in between Florida and Cuba, does it normally go to the East or to the West?

[thackney]

Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies
(a research institute of the University of Miami located in the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science)
Surface Currents in the Caribbean Sea
The Florida Current
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/caribbean/florida.html

[subterfuge]

The two happiest days of the environmentalist’s lives were the day the Exxon Valdez crashed and when Chernobyl happened.

They’ve drug out those two canards ever since as “evidence” of what CAN happen. Facts be damned.

[subterfuge]

As far as I know, there haven't been any catastrophic spills from any of those rigs that has ever threatened the coastline.

Ted Kennedy has discharged more hazardous waste from his little sloop than any oil rig ever did.

[Sunnyflorida]

My strategy is to tell all the old farts that live here that they get to share in the profits. Match SS dollar for dollar.