California Democrats seek to make offshore drilling ban permanent

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 2/17/06 | AP

[hedgetrimmer]

Then the whole state of California will become a 'sanctuary' like the Monterey Bay. In spectacular mission creep, proponents of stopping offshore drilling took the federal act banning it and turned it into a make work project for the environazis. They are shutting down almost all use of the Monterey bay and are instituting plans to protect the ocean by eliminating farming and logging operations in the watershed basins that drain into the bay. The sanctuary is so out of hand it now stretches from the Farallon Islands to Santa Barbara. We do NOT want to go here, believe me.

[sergeantdave]

Letting eco-fascists run our energy policy is like giving the malthusians control over the viagra supply.

[Carry_Okie]

It sucks, doesn't it?

[aligncare]

I lived in California for 23 years...I'm afraid I'm jaded. Californians are either brain dead (for electing so many socialists) or there is some serious hanging chad problem with the elections.

Think of it. The greatest nation in the world with many natural resources...and the idiots don't want to utilize them? The world sure has changed from when I went to school and learned that natural resources were a good thing to be exploited.

[ncountylee]

I live on the beach in S. CA and couldn't disagree more. I admit that I would like a 20 mile exclusion (view) but only if drilling methods can still extract from this zone.

[DugwayDuke]

"I admit that I would like a 20 mile exclusion (view) but only if drilling methods can still extract from this zone."

Quite frankly, I couldn't imagine a pretty view than a producing oil rig.

[ncountylee]

Quite frankly, I couldn't imagine a pretty view than a producing oil rig.

on clear days, I can see 2 now (Huntington Beach) and they aren't offensive at all.

[CyberAnt]

And .. the group fighting this is the rich liberals who do not want to see oil rigs out on the ocean.

Guess where the oil is ..?? 200 MILES OUT TO SEA. Has anybody ever known of any person who can see 200 miles ..??

So their argument is stupid - and it's just an excuse to keep us from having our own oil .. and it's because the dems WANT THE ISSUE OF NO ENERGY AND THE HIGH COST OF OIL - instead of the solution of drilling for our own oil.

[Clemenza]

Because the Dems and most (though not all) Calipornia voters believe energy comes from the energy fairy, and that high prices are merely the result of the greedy Bush family.

[CyberAnt]

I won't argue with ya - I think yer analysis is spot on!!