Obama Bans Drilling in Sectors of Arctic, Atlantic Oceans

[mikeyyc]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

Let's keep off-shore drilling around Texas coast where the water is naturally dirty. I don't want oil rigs on pristine Florida coast

You do know that it's 450 miles from Texas to Florida along the exact same coastline, right?

[Casper in Dallas]

Originally Posted by evilnewbie

Yeah, Obama is beginning to look like he has dementia or something... doing things that are surely going to be reversed...

Yes, he is crazy, he will put in place things that when the Repubs undo them they will have to do so very publically meaning the consequences and fallout fall directly on their heads. Yes, he is Crazy, like a Fox.

[Goodnight]

Originally Posted by TigerLily24

Protection = trash to you?

Explains a lot.

Now that's funny!

[odanny]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

I don't like Obama much but I might need to send him a thank you message for this. The amount of oil up there won't solve our energy problem for any significant length of time. A clean environment is more valuable.

Amen. We might as well shift our energies towards natural gas until we develop the technology to get off of fossil fuels, which is always going to be blocked from funding by Republicans, as the entire party is in the back pocket go big oil. Drilling for oil in arctic seas is inherently more risky than doing it in calmer locations. Seas are far more unpredictable and the isolation would curtail any attempts to clean up oil spills. This was a rare bit of good news coming out of Washington D.C., I just hope environmentalists have deep pockets for the legal battles.