I have seen the windmills in west Texas and they are hideous. Floridians have been convinced that drilling off shore will destroy their tourism but what if the tourist can’t afford to come there anymore? I wasn’t kidding about the fishing. Fishing around oil platforms is great.
“Floridians have been convinced that drilling off shore will destroy their tourism but what if the tourist can’t afford to come there anymore?”
Floridians need to grow up on this issue. There are few places to drill that won’t pose some small threat to someone. But there is probably no non-essential activity in the US that consumes more gasoline than RVs, motor homes, giant pickups pulling travel trailers and boats, etc., headed to Florida for vacation from all over the eastern US.
Florida’s tourism industry requires enormous amounts of gasoline for the tourists to get there, so that state needs to stop whining and make it’s contribution to the nation’s energy needs, or maybe we need to restrict all those gas guzzling vacation vehicles in the name of conservation.
I'm originally from Louisiana, so I know about the "artificial reef" effect of oil rigs. The fishies love'em.