rigzone.com — State lawmakers gave initial approval Tuesday to a bill that could allow offshore drillers a chance to set up rigs within sight of Florida's Gulf of Mexico beaches. A surprise introduction of legislation by Dean Cannon, R- Winter Park, slated to be House leader next year, calls for lifting the state's decades-old ban on rigs and giving the...
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madtechnologistApr 23, 2009
Drill, baby, drill!
bluto36Apr 23, 2009
finally some good news. when do we start building nuke plants and letting Dams go at full capacity?
Closed AccountApr 23, 2009
As a Florida resident, the hypocrisy of "no rigs off my coast" has frustrated me for YEARS. I'm glad someone, finally, is doing something.
woofthisApr 24, 2009
As a Florida resident, I can also tell you the FL House is also about to pass a $1 per pack cigarette tax. The offshore drilling will go no where..trust me. The RINO governor Charlie Crist can shove FL up his ass.
these3remainApr 24, 2009
Dug for "Al Gorleone"!
these3remainApr 24, 2009
"Drill baby drill, and Palin 2012!" Well, you've got it half right. As much as I respect Gov. Palin, I don't think she is a viable candidate because the msm has trashed her beyond the point of redemption. If you thought it was ugly as VP, you ain't seen nothin' if she were to get the nod in 2012.
striker101Apr 24, 2009
From whom do you figure on "taking that money" this time?
existingApr 24, 2009
Good point on the light bulbs (or is it lightbulbs?). And I think all of us want to be, and are, good stewards. We just don't like the idea of forced 'stewardship' that provides nothing more than power to the government (and their minions), useless laws that many times hurt more than help - while taxing and regulating the people into oblivion.Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned conservation (instead of what we've wound up with, which is the socialist's version of religion - environmentalism)?
ereneeApr 24, 2009
Better try to beat Cuba and China to the punch, I mean oil.