Bush to ask Congress to lift ban on offshore drilling
un-Touch'd krew
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From: My own level of hell
Nobama
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Sound like a liberal. "What?! you don't agree with me?! You hate progress!"
No, I am all for progress as i said, find new energy sources, knowing that it will take a while for what we find to become usefull for the general public. |But lets not stab our foot while were on our way there, it will just slow us down and make the whole thing more painfull.
No, I am all for progress as i said, find new energy sources, knowing that it will take a while for what we find to become usefull for the general public. |But lets not stab our foot while were on our way there, it will just slow us down and make the whole thing more painfull.
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Both sides have valid arguments here, but I say drill. They've been doing it in Texas for many years without many problems, why not do the same elsewhere.
I got this in an email today...
I got this in an email today...
While Congress keeps refusing to allow oil exploration off the east coast, off the west coast, off the Florida coast, The drills are a drillin' and the pumps are a pumpin' off the Texas coast.* Why is that?* Two reasons:
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1.* Texans have never had a problem with oil drilling.* They have always known and prove every day that the oil industry and wildlife can co-exist.* In fact, the drilling rigs actually create habitat.* They are artificial reefs teaming with fish and the entire ocean food chain.* So for the past seventy years or more, while the hippies, ecology nuts, tree huggers, and environmentalists, all have shut down oil exploration off every other coast, Texas rigs have been blowin' and goin.'*
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2.* The U.S. Congress has no authority over the territorial waters off the Texas coast.* Congress can control the waters off all the other state coasts, but not Texas.* One of several conditions of statehood, back in 1846, was that Texas maintained control if its territorial waters.* So thanks to our far sighted Texas ancestors, the oil rigs have been bringing up the goods*without interruption*for decades.
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1.* Texans have never had a problem with oil drilling.* They have always known and prove every day that the oil industry and wildlife can co-exist.* In fact, the drilling rigs actually create habitat.* They are artificial reefs teaming with fish and the entire ocean food chain.* So for the past seventy years or more, while the hippies, ecology nuts, tree huggers, and environmentalists, all have shut down oil exploration off every other coast, Texas rigs have been blowin' and goin.'*
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2.* The U.S. Congress has no authority over the territorial waters off the Texas coast.* Congress can control the waters off all the other state coasts, but not Texas.* One of several conditions of statehood, back in 1846, was that Texas maintained control if its territorial waters.* So thanks to our far sighted Texas ancestors, the oil rigs have been bringing up the goods*without interruption*for decades.
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Nobama
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State mandate should over rule federal at every point. So that, if you don't like it, you can find somewhere that thinks like you. The original confederation of states was like this. And i think that's how it should be.
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From: Texas
We need standardization to some degree.
ZOMG Pew Pew Laserbeams
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Alright, look at Texas' ocean shelf, also remember that it maintains relatively inactive water compared to the Atlantic and Pacific. Shallow shelf = easy drilling, less chances of screwing things up.
