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Wow! A real boost to the economy without government spending. Think Obumbler and his Greenie buddies will allow it? Maybe everyday Americans will fight back and put people in office who will help the economy.
I wonder what the business owners along the gulf coast feel about this? Maybe ask some of the people in Valdez Alaska too? I just make this comment for balance, and clearly the OP's original post does not approach the subject matter with any objectivity. We could just appoint the ceo of Exxon Mobile to head up the epa and solve all our problems.
I wonder what the business owners along the gulf coast feel about this? Maybe ask some of the people in Valdez Alaska too? I just make this comment for balance, and clearly the OP's original post does not approach the subject matter with any objectivity. We could just appoint the ceo of Exxon Mobile to head up the epa and solve all our problems.
Most of them are usually pro-drilling. The exception is tourism and fishing. Oil rigs are kind of ugly and don't help tourism. Fishing doesn't care about the local economy since they're wholesale operations that ship across the US. California is full of greenies, but it's full of even more people who live where the oil is actually being extracted who are very pro oil.
The oil rigs would be so far offshore here that they would have no negative affect on tourism. As far as fishing, they only help as the platforms would become fish attractants, so tourism would actually improve.
If this were to happen, what are the tell tale signs this will go down, and how far in advance will everyone including ordinary citizens know? Or is this just going to go down behind closed doors, and only the politicians, and oil companies, banks, and friends will be able to profit off of this?
Wow! A real boost to the economy without government spending. Think Obumbler and his Greenie buddies will allow it? Maybe everyday Americans will fight back and put people in office who will help the economy.
Would be interesting to see which of the energy companies will start sniffing around. Odds are this is a large project only economical for the oil majors.
First and foremost, we need better safety procedures and redundancies. I am leery of any offshore after BP, because they had a single point of failure. At the time that occurred, they did a comparison of offshore rigs off of Denmark/Norway and those companies used redundant safety valves. Talk to me about that and I support offshore drilling.
No please don't start with BS that this would double prices at the pump by adding a second safety valve. And yes I am willing to pay an extra .10-.20 cents for additional safety procedures.
Hardly enough start up capital to finance the next war.
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