“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.
Hey, I live in Tampa Florida which have some of the finest beaches in the area but I’m all for DRILLING! I’m tired of the USA being held over (pardon my pun) barrel when the price of oil & gas goes up over some screaming headlines “terrorists attacked Nigeria’s pipelines, Iran says it will block sealanes, Texas fineries on fire etc..”
I would like to be reassure that we do have access to our oil and less dependency on foreign oil while we research alternative energy resources.
By the way I email my Floridian Senator Nelson that I wanted to drill off the shores of Florida which will bring paying jobs and if you continue to vote no to drilling you have lost my vote. His response he towed the Dem’s line no drilling. I email him back and well you lost my vote. Yes I voted for him in the last election because the alternative was Katherine Harris. My mistake and now I’m living with it! Yikes!