Jeb 'outraged' by Kerry comments on drilling off Florida coasts

[JohnLocke]

Governor outraged by Kerry comments on drilling off Florida
Associated Press
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TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Governor Jeb Bush says he's outraged by comments from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry about drilling for oil off the Florida coast.
Kerry is quoted as saying he supports oil drilling off Florida's coast in locations where companies have already been granted drilling permits.
The newspaper, the "Independent Florida Alligator," quotes Kerry as saying that America will be dependent on oil and gas for another 30 years and that will require some drilling.
Bush says that shows Kerry has failed to follow efforts by the federal and state government to purchase leases to prevent drilling.
Kornblau says, and we quote: "What he clearly was referring to yesterday, as anyone there will tell you, was his support for drilling in the western part of the gulf off of Alabama and Louisiana. Governor Bush took a simple, honest mistake by a college newspaper and took it to distort Senator Kerry's environmental record."
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Read the rest here.
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[Darwin2002]

1. F jeb!!

so there

[prodigal_green]

2. Golly, those Bush boys

get their panties in a twist pretty easily. They are always OUTRAGED or mortally offended by something a Democrat says.

[emulatorloo]

6. The Party of False Outrage uses Outrage to fuel their Outrageous agenda

EOM

[RobertSeattle]

3. Bush supports Offshore Drilling

...Off any state where his brother isn't the Governor.

[bucknaked]

4. Yeah, Jeb's poor CONstituents might have to deal with a flashing strobe

anti-collision light off in the distance during their peaceful night at their $4,000,000 beachhouse get-away on the gulf.

oh, "but it's only a sliver of land in Alaska!"

F-ING hypocrites!

I'm saving this article for any of Bush's 'Murikans' that dare bring up ANWAR!

[bluedog]

5. AREA 181 300 miles west of Tampa....drilling......

By ROBERT TRIGAUX, Times Business Columnist
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 3, 2002
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This new neighborhood is a straight shot about 300 miles west of Tampa Bay. It's called Area 181 in the federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. And some behemoth energy exploration companies have just spent more than $340-million to claim a stake there and start drilling for oil and gas soon.

Eleven months ago, Interior Secretary Gale Norton told Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who opposes Gulf drilling near Florida, that the federal government planned to auction 6-million acres of offshore oil and gas sites. She said the L-shape Area 181 that started only 30 miles south of Pensacola, first approved by the Clinton administration, had so much oil and gas that it "can play an important role in our national energy strategy."

Seven months ago, Norton agreed after Florida protests to sharply reduce the auction area in size. She picked a 1.5-million-acre rectangle (one-quarter the size of the full Area 181) that is farthest from Florida. How far away? Just far enough so people standing on the state's beaches would not be able to see any oil or gas rigs.

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Florida and its beach-dependent tourist industry welcome nearby drilling -- and the potential pollution of oil spills -- about as much as an anthrax attack. But the trend is clear. December's lease sale was the first since 1988 in the eastern Gulf, but more are on the way.

more.must read.see who are neighbors are in the GULF......

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/03/03/Columns/Offshore_oil_drilling.shtml

[donsu]

8. I know a guy that worked on a navy ship rented by an oil co.

that worked a grid over the entire Gulf of Mexico, plotting where the oil was. that was about 5 yrs. ago. when they were almost finished the work they brought the ship back to Key West, laid everybody off because the research company was changing it's name. after the name change they finished the grid.

[donsu]

7. don't you remember? Jeb thinks offshore Fl. drilling is OK as long as

it can't be seen from shore. that the rigs are far enough out that tourists can't see them from the shore or their motel rooms. this came out about a yr. ago when there was that hellabaloo about drilling off Fl.

[lpbk2713]

9. I'm "outraged" at having an asshole from Texas as my governor.

Does that make it a tradeoff?