texracr
Joined: 7-21-2006
City: Space City, USA
Posts: 7788
Worth the risk?
7/14/2008 5:33 PM
Debate on offshore drilling heats up


From his perch at the southern tip of Louisiana, port director Ted Falgout sees green: the color of money that comes from the nation's busiest haven of offshore drilling.
"It's OK to have an ugly spot in your backyard," Falgout says, "if that spot has oil coming out of it."

From her vantage point in Santa Barbara, Calif., a city known for beautiful beaches and wealthy residents, Mayor Marty Blum recalls black: the color of more than 3 million gallons of oil that flowed from a drilling rig blowout in 1969 and covered 35 miles of coastline with a thick layer of goo.

"The people of Santa Barbara don't want any more oil drilling. That's just pretty plain," she says. "But everybody's got a price, and at a certain price per gallon, we're all going to want more drilling."




Do you remember the technology of your car in 1969? The airliner you flew in? TV sets? Computers that monitored everything? (Hint:there weren't any)

Then why do these maroons.......excuse me......."concerned environmentalists" think that everything about oil drilling is exactly the same as it was 40 years ago? How many oil spills that weren't contained immediately have there been off of Louisiana in the past 20 years........even with hurricanes?

I would like to see these "concerned environmentalists" who complain about drilling put their money where their mouth is......and go without petrochemical products in their daily lives. (including gasoline, diesel fuel....and anything which gets it's energy from a fossil fuel)

'Couple of days oughta' do it.
Eldora Three
Joined: 8-18-2007
Posts: 1970
Worth the risk?
7/14/2008 6:50 PM
When I was in charge of the Getty Oil Marine Terminal in Gaviota., about 30 miles north of Santa Barbara, in the late 70s and through 1981 we continually had training in the ocean on preventing and containing oil spills. You have some of the wealthiest elites living in Santa Barbara and their biggest complaint then was the oil platforms were blocking their view of the Anacapa Islands.