Deepwater Horizon: Does It Spell Doom for Offshore Drilling?
Fair warning: My “relative” optimism places me squarely in the minority on this subject. I believe the reporting and commentary has been either one-sided or incendiary thus far. One thing the crowd that loves to hate the oil, gas and coal that provide them the electricity to fire up their computers and printers so they can write their hate letters about fossil fuels, fuel the autos that take them to the post office, and provide the jet fuel to send their letters to me, need to know: I own a home in the Florida Keys and have been a diver who has seen marine environmental destruction and rebirth over 40 years of diving. Fort Lauderdale used to pump its untreated sewage out to the second and third reefs off the coast, decimating the (out of sight to most, out of mind) precious corals that, along with the mangroves displaced by condos, had protected the beaches from hurricane devastation for thousands of years. Like most old divers, I fought for the marine environment long before it was co
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