| #8 Why should a pair of US Senators have say over what happens 50-200 miles off the coast of the nation? THAT's the area under consideration for drilling. You can see oil platforms (three or four, I don't remember exactly) from Galveston beach, and people still flock there by the thousands. This is just bullshit, and the senators need to be burned for making such stupid statements. The US needs to become oil and gas independent in the immediate future, with expansion of nuclear to replace oil, gas, and coal-fired generating plants to follow in the next decade or two. Those that stand in the way are modern-day Luddites, and need to get the same degree of "respect" - NONE. |
Legislation that would end a quarter-century ban on drilling in most of the Outer Continental Shelf advanced in the House on Wednesday. The measure would allow oil and gas development in restricted offshore waters unless a state prohibited it. The House Resources Committee approved the legislation in 29-9 vote, and its sponsors say it has a good chance of being approved by the full House But the bill's prospects in the Senate are poor as Florida's two senators — as well as others from coastal states — have threatened to filibuster any legislation that would end the drilling moratorium in most coastal waters outside the western Gulf of Mexico.