"That particular flyway is a huge migration zone and regardless of what you've witnessed in Big Spring, it's a dumb idea."
No, it would be a bad idea if was a MIGRATION ROUTE (a relatively narrow band of 20-30 miles). A FLYWAY, in contrast, is hundreds of miles wide. There is no ROUTE nearby.
Any duck hunter could tell you this.
"Allowing offshore drilling again would answer most of our energy problems."
While I agree we need more drilling, that's not a issue in Texas. Unlike Florida, we drill.
That said, we don't generate (much) electricty with oil, so no that will not help our energy problems.
In Texas (which has its own electrical grid known as ERCOT), there is an ELECTRICTY shortage in the Houston-to-Dallas corridor. (Indeed, they had rolling blackouts in Houston a few weeks ago.) More juice has to be generated locally.
We need to build nukes in Texas and stop this piddle power windmill crap. Yes, they will kill some birds (see this link for dead eagles around windmills and the awful visual pollution-which really spoils the view on I20 100 miles west of Fort Worth.)
http://www.matsuvalleynews.com/wind1.html
There are numerous technical reasons why windmills are the WRONG way to generate power. This March 2006 paper by the Center for Science and Public Policy discusses this in detail
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20060331_wind.pdf
SUMMARY: wind farms for power generation can only provide negligible electricity to grid supply systems, make no significant reduction in pollution, cause significant environmental damage, increase the costs of electricity and create risks of power failures
The TXU President recently said a nuke would take ten years so they want to build six coal plants in Texas 'cuz quicker to get on line. What a load of 16th century bull. Transport thousands of coal cars around the country and pollute the air in Texas. Way to go.
Several utilities in US are planning to build nukes over the next ten years. Why not Texas?