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Oil Drilling: First the Arctic - Now offshore Florida?
Target: Governor BushSponsored by: Care2
The U.S. Department of the Interior is considering changing "administrative" boundaries for states in the Gulf of Mexico and as a result weakening Florida's protections against offshore oil drilling. With the new boundaries, drilling as close as 125 miles off the coast of Florida would be possible!
A spokesman for Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), called the move "a thinly veiled act" by which the Bush administration "appears to be moving rapidly to open a huge portion of the eastern Gulf of Mexico off Florida to oil drilling."
Each drilling platform could legally dump 90,000 tons of heavy metals, muds, and toxic chemicals into our waters. This pollution would cause health and reproductive problems for fish and other marine life.
Opening our shores to drilling would only put our beaches and coastal waters at great environmental risk for a small, short-term supply of gas. We can do better! If our cars and trucks got an average of a couple more miles per gallon, we'd save more oil than exists off the entire coast of Florida!
Sign the petition below to tell Gov. Bush and our leaders in Congress to stop the rush to drill and start pushing sensible choices like better gas mileage and clean energy!
A spokesman for Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), called the move "a thinly veiled act" by which the Bush administration "appears to be moving rapidly to open a huge portion of the eastern Gulf of Mexico off Florida to oil drilling."
Each drilling platform could legally dump 90,000 tons of heavy metals, muds, and toxic chemicals into our waters. This pollution would cause health and reproductive problems for fish and other marine life.
Opening our shores to drilling would only put our beaches and coastal waters at great environmental risk for a small, short-term supply of gas. We can do better! If our cars and trucks got an average of a couple more miles per gallon, we'd save more oil than exists off the entire coast of Florida!
Sign the petition below to tell Gov. Bush and our leaders in Congress to stop the rush to drill and start pushing sensible choices like better gas mileage and clean energy!
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We signed the “Oil Drilling: First the Arctic - Now offshore Florida?” petition!
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The risk to the enviornment is too great. We need to conserve and invest in alternative energy research.
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As a Florida resident and voting Republican I firmly oppose drilling in Florida waters.
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Maybe you and your brother should do your job and stop screwing up the world!
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More oil is not the solution. We should be spending money on researching environmentally safer alternatives.
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Everyone wrote it best before me. The enviroment cannot be sold to oil for the health of wildlife and people. If you drill it will show your blatant greed and stupidity. If you look into other energy solutions you will still make money. From tourists for clean beaches and from investing in cleaner fuels.
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Please please do not allow offshore oil drilling anywhere! I would rather pay $5.00/gallon and higher for gasoline than destroy the Artic, ocean, or anywhere else on earth. This crusade to drill for oil must stop. The American people have made it perfectly clear that they value the environment and want clean energy policies. Please respect their wishes.
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The oil goes to the market not to the USA. The pollution would go to OUR beaches. The Money would go to the CEO's.
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Florida has a host of enviromental problems without adding oil rigs to the list. Do not do this. Why would you want to jeopordize your tourism for a few days of SUV fuel? Hurricanes show disdain for oil rigs, and I don't think you want that, nor do most Floridians.
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As a former resident of Florida I beg you not to forsake your opposition to past attempts at off shore drilling in Florida.
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We should be concetrating on weening for patroleum. Florida is a sportsman paridise and this fact brings in billions to our state. Lets not even concider any thing that may jeopardize this.
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I am opposed to the drilling due to the negative impact it will have on our beaches and pollution. We need alternative fuels, lower speed limits.
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Because we should be using the alternative energy resources that we already have, on with the new and out with the old way of thinking. In the long run it will be better for the earth and your greedy pocket. I would also like keep the ocean sacred, and not take anymore away from the environment.
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No way! Ecology before the oil economy!!!
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It will cause more damage to our environment & harm wild life as well.
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Oil is not the solution. We have to invest in alternatives. If you put oil rigs off the coast of Florida, you will lose the tourist economy and the risk ruining our beautiful pristine beaches.