Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume

[demoleft]

Source: ap

NEW ORLEANS – At the same time they are venting their fury on BP over the Gulf of Mexico spill and its calamitous environmental effects, Louisiana politicians are rushing to the defense of the oil-and-gas industry and pleading with Washington to bring back offshore drilling — now.
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They contend that drilling is safe overall and that the moratorium is a knee-jerk reaction, akin to grounding every airplane in America because of a single crash. They worry, too, that the moratorium comes at a time when another major Louisiana industry — fishing — has been brought to a standstill by the mess in the Gulf.

"Mr. President, you were looking for someone's butt to kick. You're kicking ours," Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph said in pleading for the moratorium to end.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100610/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill

[Devil_Fish]

1. what are they stupid? It was a British Company profiting off of this oil.

does any of the proceeds go to Louisiana? Why bother drilling when there is plenty of oil to be had in the Gulf of Oil, no drilling needed. I'm sure BP wouldn't mind if you grabbed some. Millions of barrels out there...

[Demobrat]

4. Well the people who work on the oil rigs

need their jobs. It's not the oil they care about, it's their paychecks.

[Devil_Fish]

10. There is plenty of work cleaning up the fucking mess. there short on clean up workers.

They seem to only be able to clean the beach when the president flys over.

[bowens43]

19. too bad....they need to look elsewhere for work.

these things need to be shut down permanently. As we have seen it only takes one failure to create the worst man made disaster in history. If a few thousand people lose their jobs it is a very small price to pay.

[dipsydoodle]

5. BP is registered in the UK

but is an Anglo American company with almost identical share holdings so you can cut the spin crap about British. It ceased to be British Petroleum when they merged with Amoco.

[Devil_Fish]

13. What ever. Does Louisiana see any of that profit? if so then it is still in their best interest to

clean the mess up istead of drill baby drill.

[disndat]

20. I don't think anyone is blaming the Brits

We are blaming the Bush/Cheney regime and all the crooked politicians on both sides of the pond.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. How many Americans are employed in the oil industry in Louisiana?

And on the Gulf Coast in general? Refineries, rig maintenance and service, etc etc? thousands. Of course some of the proceeds go to Louisiana; there are taxes paid on income earned by Louisiana residents, and it makes up the salaries of a lot of people who spend that money in the Louisiana economy. You apparently don't have a firm grasp on how the whole economy thing works. (Also, BP is 39% American-owned.)

[Devil_Fish]

12. all thouse workers are needed cleaning up the oil. Seems they have so few clean up workers that they

can only clean up the beaches that the president is personally flying over.

[wordpix]

2. typical anti-environmental, stupid response: it's polluted, so we can pollute some more

Fuckheads :banghead:

[Bobbieo]

6. They may change theirs mind when they run out of drinking water!

[fascisthunter]

3. sick fuckers

[Karenina]

7. Homo Sapiens are too stupid to survive.

May the 2 planets joke become reality and Mother Earth take the milleneia she will need to heal herself.

[xchrom]

9. I guess what I think they want are jobs.

Long term, well paying jobs.

Considering what's happened there I can't blame them.

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[The abyss]

14. Actually shallow/off-shore drilling is safer in these regions.

The natural oil seeps off Louisiana aren’t there because of someone poking a straw into mama earth.

The quality of the deep-water wells isn’t much better in this region than it is in the coastal layers. It ain’t California where the further you go into the sub-duction zone the sweeter it becomes.

They drill further out because they are required to drill a minimum number of miles from the coast.

Oil, like gold, is unfortunately where you find it. And, like gold, where you are allowed to play the game.

Unfortunatly – we pay the profit and development.

[liberation]

16. I think "safer" does not mean what you think it means...

Given that the second largest accidental oil spill in history happened at the other end of that Gulf in very shallow waters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill

Do some of you just make this up as you go?

[Skink]

15. Yet Louisiana isn't prepared for this kind of spill either.

[wordpix]

17. idiots! According to Rolling Stone article, only 33/5,106 wells are under moratorium

This is all politics and no substance. LA pols want to deflect low public opinion of their rubber stamping of this dirty industry onto Obama.

[bowens43]

18. YOu don;t have to be an bumbling idiot to be elected in Louisiana

but sure helps.......

[killbotfactory]

21. Make BP pay the wages of the workers in the oil industry effected by the moratorium.

Although the entire industry and corrupt politicians are complicit in gutting our regulatory powers.