Posted on 08/29/2008 10:20:29 PM PDT by FocusNexus
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to support increased oil production off its coast, a move supporters hope will add to growing pressure to lift bans on offshore drilling.
The 3-2 vote, which was expected, has little practical significance because offshore drilling is banned by both state and federal moratoriums. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, opposes new drilling.
Drilling opponents note that the Board of Supervisors represents the entire county, including the conservative, pro-oil northern region. They say the majority of residents of the city of Santa Barbara itself remain against new drilling.
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Santa Barbara is a liberal city.
A big oil spill happened in 1969 off the coast near Santa Barbara, back in the days when offshore drilling was allowed. Perhaps memories of that have faded, combined with a realization that oil drilling does not mean that oil spills are inevitable.
You have to start at the spot of the foul.
Schwartzenegger ought to man up and support drilling offshore.
Not without his wife's permission!
“Schwartzenegger ought to man up and support drilling offshore.”
Considering that Santa Barbara votes for drilling, you never know, maybe he will change his mind also.
The vote was 3-2, but still astounding considering, as someone mentioned, it is a southern California coastal town that has a liberal Mayor and city council. It is a bit more balanced though than let's say The People's Republic of Santa Barbara (the area I just moved from).
SchwartzenKennedy’s manhood came from a steroid syringe and Hollywood scripts...
He’s as much an image myth as is Obama.
The steroids also shrank his manhood - he’s ball less, and a total puppet of his wife and the leftist Democrat legislature in Kalifornicate....
He was a BIG mistake.....
oops I mean The People’s Republic of Santa Monica. lol. A little Freudian slip I guess—lol.
Looks like climate change is affecting minds.
/sarc
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