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2008-06-20 Home Front Economy

Drilling Off Florida Coast Offers Benefits, Risks

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Hate to break it to them, but drilling is already going on a bit over 50 miles off key west. Except its not us, its the Cubans and thier forieng partners drilling, who, I might note, are immune to US environmental regualtions and US courts.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-20 01:09|| 2008-06-20 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 This just in: Life eventually fatal.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-06-20 01:45|| 2008-06-20 01:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Driving to work offers benefits and risks too.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-20 02:27|| 2008-06-20 02:27|| Front Page Top

#4 If they [government] can tax it, it will come.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-20 09:14|| 2008-06-20 09:14|| Front Page Top

#5 florida will have it affects..but frickin chicoms and cuba will be drilling....

Posted by dan 2008-06-20 09:32|| 2008-06-20 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 A major risk to the environmentalists is that people will notice that all the off shore drilling in the Gulf has produced very little pollution - even though the platforms have been pounded by some cat 5 hurricanes.

Posted by mhw 2008-06-20 09:56|| 2008-06-20 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 And the oil rigs themselves act like artifical coral reefs - sea life flourishes around the rigs.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-06-20 10:26|| 2008-06-20 10:26|| Front Page Top

#8 There won't be a tourist industry if nobody travels. As said, the drilling is already in process but the US is a couple years behind already.

The only consideration in my mind is that if people trying to escape from cuba can just get within a mile and call "Alli Alli Otsenfree" as an area controlled by the US, thus being Florida and granted citizenship.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-06-20 12:10|| 2008-06-20 12:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Alli Alli Otsenfree

You mean of ourse alle, alle ist frei.
The cry of the green grocey at sundown.

Fear not, there will be no drilling or exploring off the coast of Florida. Thousands and thousands of little tiny jobs depend on it.

Posted by HalfEmpty 2008-06-20 20:20|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-06-20 20:20|| Front Page Top

#10 IRAN-DAILY > UNDERWATER OIL BREWING BORDER BATTLE. SHELL OIL's new innovative PERDIDO Platform versus Mexico vv GULF OF MEXICO. Many Mexicans fear Perdido will suck out crude oil from their fields into Shell's = USA's, + affect on PEMEX.

ALso from IRAN-DAILY > THE NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR [Asia] CONSORTIUM DISCUSSED; + EXPOSURE OF PERSIAN GULF FREE TRADE ZONE [FTZ's] ON THE AGENDA, as envisioned for Iran's MINISTRY OF COMMERCE's PAN-PERSIAN GULF "VISION 2025" PLAN [Iran + Littoral Gulf nations].

*IRANIAN. WS > THE ENERGY NON-CRISIS; + FREEREPUBLIC > THE DEFEAT OF THE TRANS-TEXAS CORRIDOR [TTC] - DON'T BET ON IT!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-20 23:05|| 2008-06-20 23:05|| Front Page Top

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