Toro
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Applying your logic...offshore drilling should be eliminated entirely, because a disaster might occur.Sure, just like there is a Flame Forum for flames and trolls.
Conspiracy threads are in the conspiracy Forum
btw, know what the commodity market is?
Commodity Market, wow, I wonder if you know what power the President of the United States has, or the power of a governor like the state of Florida, of course facts such as Bush banning drilling off the Coast of Florida would effect the Commodity Market, would it not. Or in your tiny mind do you know not see the damage that Republicans cause with their failed Energy Policies.
Dante, you are the problem with the USA, blind-faith and willful ignorance, if I am to be nice.
The Bush family are Democrats at best, big government double talkers.
Hannity falsely suggested only liberals oppose coastal oil drilling Research Media Matters for America
Hannity falsely suggested only "liberals" oppose coastal oil drilling
Research May 6, 2005
Fox News host Sean Hannity falsely suggested that only "liberals" have opposed proposals to drill for oil in United States coastal waters. On the May 5 edition of Hannity & Colmes, Hannity declared that a major "problem" with the U.S. energy supply is that "liberals in this country ... won't allow us to drill off the shores of the coast of California or Florida, the Great Lakes, national parks, designated areas, the 48 states, anywhere." In fact, Republican presidents and governors have also opposed coastal drilling: President George H.W. Bushenacted a moratorium banning coastal drilling, President George W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush bothopposed plans to drill off the coast of Florida, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes coastal drilling in California.
Contrary to Hannity's suggestion that only "liberals" oppose coastal drilling, it was a Republican president who first placed the ban on such drilling still in effect today. The presidential moratorium on coastal drilling, which "applies to virtually all the coasts" was "first imposed by President Bush in June 1990," as CNN.com notedwhen then-President Bill Clinton extended the moratorium on June 12, 1998. The moratorium applies to all "new federal unleased areas" [Los Angeles Times 4/25/05].
Further, the current President Bush blocked coastal drilling in Florida. In 2002, Bush reached a deal to "buy out mineral rights in the cypress swamps of the Everglades and off the white-sand beaches of the Gulf of Mexico" on Florida's coast [The Washington Post, 5/30/02]. The Washington Post reported that the deal "could ... provide a political boost" to the reelection hopes of his brother Jeb, who called the move "good public policy";The New York Times also reported that Gov. Bush acknowledged that it was "likely to help his re-election campaign."
Schwarzenegger has steadfastly opposed coastal drilling in California; in an April 4 letter to members of Congress, "California Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman said the state is against 'any effort to lift the congressional moratorium on offshore oil and gas leasing activities'" [Los Angeles Times, 4/25/05].
The Bush administration has flip-flopped on protecting California's coastal areas from drilling. After
Many conservatives don't want offshore drilling in Florida either. The BP disaster is why.
That is wrong.
The primary driver of the economy in Florida is tourism. Oil spills don't mix well with beautiful white sand beaches and azure waters of the Florida coast. Many conservative business people understand and oppose offshore drilling for this reason. I have a property near where the tar came onto the beach. Many small businesses went under due to BP. BP is still personae non grata in parts around here.
Okay then...again according to your logic, all offshore drilling should be terminated.
No.
Conservative business people in FL do a simple cost-benefit analysis and don't want offshore drilling because it's not in their economic interest. Business people do the same thing in LA MS and TX and decide they want offshore drilling because it is in their economic interest.
I hope this lesson in Business 101 helped.