Crist, Barbour collide on deepwater drilling freeze

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http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/102859-crist-barbour-collide-on-deepwater-drilling-freeze

The governors of two states threatened by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill offered starkly different views Sunday about whether the six-month federal ban on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling should be scrapped.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) – echoing Gulf Coast politicians including Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) – said the ban will harm the regional and national economy.

“I don’t think we should have a moratorium,” Barbour said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” He said it is important to discover what caused the massive BP oil spill, but defended the overall safety history of the offshore industry and insisted that “it is very reasonable to continue to drill.”

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But Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (I) said the ban must remain in place.

“We need this moratorium. If this spew in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico doesn’t tell us that we need to be more cautious and more careful about doing this in the future, I don’t know what else would,” he said on the CBS program.



Govs: Media Over-Hyping Extent of Spill Damage
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/13/ftn/main6577858.shtml


video
Barbour: 'Continue To Drill'
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6577860n

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1. of course, Barbour and Landrieu are completely bought by BigOil & their backers so

they don't care who gets SCrude, as long as they got theirs.

And BTW to these idiots: the "moratorium" only is on 33 wells out of 5106, according to Rolling Stone's article.

I like how Crist is referring to it as the "spew" and not the "spill." Spew is my word for it, too.

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2. Crist has...had a tourist industry. The others are oil industry.