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Old 10-22-2013, 05:40 PM
 
Location: North of South, South of North
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I am absolutely opposed to any rig visible from the shoreline and strongly opposed to oil rigs off our coast in general. After the BP debacle I have zero trust in big oil to take the proper safeguards to prevent major environmental damage.
What if they only open it to "small oil" instead of "big oil" ?
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Old 10-22-2013, 05:49 PM
 
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Old 10-22-2013, 06:04 PM
 
Location: Spring Hill Florida
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No way. The risk to our beaches and sea life is too great.


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I think it would be a disaster for the Florida tourist industry to start having to deal with oil rig of the west coast Florida.

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Old 10-22-2013, 06:04 PM
 
Location: North of South, South of North
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Opposed to this.
Being on the fence, I would probably vote against it for the tourism fear factor.

As they can drill sideways, I think I would rather have the rigs on land and then drill out.
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Old 10-22-2013, 06:07 PM
 
Location: Spring Hill Florida
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The BP mess is still not cleaned up. Any chance of an accident is too much of a chance.

The ocean floor may release oil but its not released at the volume of the BP spill at one time.



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I am mixed on it. In reality it should not be an issue at all. The likelihood of an accident is extremely small and even if there were to be one, these things are easily cleaned up nowadays. The gulf floor naturally releases more oil every single year than the latest BP oil disaster did. The ocean has a natural way to clean a lot of the oil itself and what makes it to the coastline is cleaned quickly. These little tar balls you hear about happen all the time and they are a natural process.

HOWEVER, "perception" is reality for many people and if there were to be an accident the perception for a lot of people would be that the coastline is ruined and they would stay away, resulting in serious short term economic consequences.

It's a tough call.
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Old 10-22-2013, 07:37 PM
 
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I am absolutely opposed to any rig visible from the shoreline and strongly opposed to oil rigs off our coast in general. After the BP debacle I have zero trust in big oil to take the proper safeguards to prevent major environmental damage.
Agreed. We were just out in CA and you can see oil rig after oil rig from the beach. So so ugly.
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Old 10-22-2013, 07:56 PM
 
Location: North of South, South of North
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The ocean floor may release oil but its not released at the volume of the BP spill at one time.
This is true. The ocean floor releases the oil more slowly over the course of the year. An oil disaster is flowing out at a greater rate in a shorter time.

Even with the flow rate of the BP oil disaster, a lot of that oil was eaten away by natural forces and the amount of oil making it to land was far less than feared. But fear can have devastating consequences on a tourism industry and even the seafood industry.....whether real or imagined.
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Old 10-22-2013, 08:31 PM
 
Location: The woods of Central Florida
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Old 10-23-2013, 03:43 AM
 
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NO, NO, NO...Not here...the article said that because the guy writing it got paid to say that to make you think there is "support"! Only a dumbass would support the destruction of the most beautiful beaches anywhere!
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Old 10-23-2013, 03:56 AM
 
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Agreed. We were just out in CA and you can see oil rig after oil rig from the beach. So so ugly.
Their beaches were ugly before the oil rigs were in...our beaches are beautiful, and need to stay that way, if we loose tourism too, considering that no big industries come here, what are going to do??? we cannot afford to loose our tourism. Too bad these politicians are completely SENILE! I think it is time to put a cap on the age for these people, and start electing some young folks in those offices. Old no longer means "experienced", it means "greedy", and "lunatic"!

I wrote a blog post somewhat related to this here:
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The FACT that we're doing NOTHING to protect our environment is shameful.

The FACT that we continually looking for oil, rather than use electricity is shameful considering the year is 2013, and we're not counting backwards to return to the horse and buggy.

Personally I think it is really embarrassing that such a small country like Japan has the fastest trains, and we have people living far away from work, and cannot accommodate them with a form of transportation that doesn't create more pollution.

Excuse me, but why was it possible to have a suspended train in Miami, and it's not possible anywhere else in Florida? I used to use that train all the time...I am not kidding. It was extremely convenient, and I am still wondering why nowhere else in Florida such train exists!??? and we want oil rigs to add more lanes and pollute the hell out of our cities?? why?
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