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2010-04-02 Economy

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Posted by Bobby 2010-04-02 09:35|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 One of the "dirty little secrets" the enviros don't want you to know is that the drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have greatly INCREASED the amount of sea life in the area. The drilling platforms function as artificial reefs that provide protection from predators, including man. Fishing from boats is prohibited within a specific distance from the platforms, in order to protect them from inadvertent damage. The Sierra Club (and most "environmental" groups) don't want anything resembling PROGRESS. If the US is to survive as a free and independent country, we're going to have to learn to ignore these people.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-04-02 13:24|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/ 2010-04-02 13:24|| Front Page Top

#2 As Obama offers drilling in the Atlantic (south of Joisey), he forbids drilling in the Pacific, the Gulf around Florida, huge areas in Alaska and most everywhere in the interior 48.

Watch the hands, not the mouth ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-04-02 13:51|| 2010-04-02 13:51|| Front Page Top

#3 "we're going to have to learn to ignore these people"

I prefer to ridicule them, OP. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-02 14:52|| 2010-04-02 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Never gonna happen. "The One" knows that the EPA will block any progress towards offshore drilling, and, in addition, where is the additional (and required) refinery capacity going to come from? Oh, yeah, wait....after Iran becomes vitrious, some of the refineries in the M.E. may have additional capacity....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-04-02 17:22|| 2010-04-02 17:22|| Front Page Top

#5 I just saw where Marathon oil added capacity in a Louisina plant, the first add to refining capacity in 33 years.

or did I dream it?

Posted by Bobby 2010-04-02 17:37|| 2010-04-02 17:37|| Front Page Top

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