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Florida tourism agency now backs drilling
Washington Times ^ | November 28th | sean lengell

Posted on 12/02/2008 4:09:02 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing

A Florida tourism group has dropped its long-standing opposition to offshore oil and gas drilling, saying that a cheap national fuel supply would trigger a boom for the Sunshine State's No. 1 industry.

When gasoline prices skyrocketed to more than $4 per gallon this summer tourist spots such as Florida suffered, as would-be vacationers stayed home. So in response, the Florida Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus (FACVB) has adopted a new policy that encourages a "comprehensive, long-term energy policy" that includes increased oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida's coast.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: business; economy; energy; energyindependence; energyprices; facvb; gasprices; income; nationalsecurity; offshoreoil; oil; oildrilling; seeatsea; vision
Helps bolster energy independence, good for gas prices, good for jobs, good for florida, good for america.
1 posted on 12/02/2008 4:09:02 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
How Far Can You See at Sea?( offshore oil drilling )

“OIL AND GAS SEEPAGE FROM OCEAN FLOOR REDUCED BY OIL PRODUCTION”

2 posted on 12/02/2008 4:11:33 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (There is no "rich". There is only "the hiring class".)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

I knew that fuel prices would bite tourism in the a**


3 posted on 12/02/2008 4:11:50 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

They even support it up to 30 miles, which is the logical limit.

Slant drilling should be able to take care of the rest of the distance.


4 posted on 12/02/2008 4:14:59 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (There is no "rich". There is only "the hiring class".)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Personally, I think that presented in the right way, offshore drilling could be made into a tourist attraction in it’s own right.

Sell tours of the drilling platform, and people would pay big bucks.


5 posted on 12/02/2008 4:18:51 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Leave the fairytails’’ at disney world and get yer head out Fla.


6 posted on 12/02/2008 4:22:33 AM PST by Waco (understand the meaning of illegal???)
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...offshore drilling could be made into a tourist attraction...

Some years ago during a slowdown in North Sea drilling I had to go to a semi-submersible anchored in a firth. When I went ashore and called for a hotel room part of the sales pitch was the lovely view of the rigs. I always wondered how many were impressed by that presentation.

7 posted on 12/02/2008 4:29:34 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Slant drilling should be able to take care of the rest of the distance.

You know of some wonder technology the oil patch hasn't heard of?

Not 30 miles, not even half of that.

8 posted on 12/02/2008 4:53:14 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Horizontal drilling has not yet reached 8 miles, but with the development of a new rig BP should reach slightly past that far with the drilling of the Liberty Field offshore North Coast Alaska.


9 posted on 12/02/2008 5:01:54 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: FreePaul
When I owned a beach house near Freeport Texas, we kept a telescope on a tripod so guests could look at the platforms offshore. We liked having them in the view.
10 posted on 12/02/2008 5:03:54 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
When gasoline prices skyrocketed to more than $4 per gallon this summer tourist spots such as Florida suffered, as would-be vacationers stayed home.

Reality smacks them up the side of the head and they wake up. It's what reasonabley intelligent people have been saying forever.

How many orange crops will have to be lost before they realize global warming is a hoax?

11 posted on 12/02/2008 5:05:43 AM PST by CPOSharky (Coming up: Four years of Jimmuh Cartah on crack.)
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To: FreePaul

Growing up in New England, I always wondered why so many tourist dollars were spent by people traveling to see the color of leaves change (it happened every year in my backyard...and I had to rake them up).

On my initial visit to Santa Barbara, or somewhere on the west coast, I was impressed by the lighted off shore rigs that I saw during my off shore night flights’ approach.

Similar, perhaps, to leaf peepers, visitors to New York City’s skyscrapers or tar pits?

There are many impressive sights to be seen in this country, both natural and man made.

I’m NOT impressed by the hypocritical “ethics” of those who abide by them only when it doesn’t affect them or eventually their income.

Perhaps, the ‘tourist’ industry should “contribute” a percentage of their income to the oil rigs?

Y’know, spreading the wealth around, or as retribution?


12 posted on 12/02/2008 5:15:07 AM PST by This_far
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Drilling rigs are GREAT FISHING REEFS, They should have built more decades ago. We’d have solved two problems at the same time..............


13 posted on 12/02/2008 5:16:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: thackney
...we kept a telescope on a tripod so guests could look at the platforms offshore.

And the nude beach goers had nothing to do with it?.............

14 posted on 12/02/2008 5:17:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: Red Badger

The vast majority of those visiting the beach would cause you to close the blinds in case of nudity.


15 posted on 12/02/2008 5:26:08 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Red Badger

Woohoo. Great (even better) fishing off Tarpon Springs in the future!


16 posted on 12/02/2008 5:28:22 AM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: thackney

We get a few Europeans here every year that don’t know that you can’t sunbathe in the nude or topless in Florida. The sheriff’s department just tells them to put their clothes back on.........


17 posted on 12/02/2008 5:31:43 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

It’s all about the money.


18 posted on 12/02/2008 5:33:17 AM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Florida is bad for tourists because they get taxed very highly (hotel, car rental, and so forth) for just visiting the place!


19 posted on 12/02/2008 5:35:28 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I'd say that with prices as low as they are today, it would probably be in everyone's best interests to wait and not drill immediately.
20 posted on 12/02/2008 6:04:40 PM PST by curiosity
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