{"id":135783,"date":"2018-01-09T20:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T03:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135783"},"modified":"2018-01-10T00:12:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T07:12:25","slug":"everyone-gets-offshore-oil-drilling-except-seems-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/everyone-gets-offshore-oil-drilling-except-seems-florida.html","title":{"rendered":"Everyone gets offshore oil drilling … except, it seems, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Trump’s Interior Secretary Zinke announced that pretty much everywhere<\/i> would now be open to offshore oil drilling (and it was also announced that a bunch of regulations put in place around offshore drilling in the aftermath of the BP oil disaster a few years back), there was a lot of outrage from (among others) lots of different states that happen to have coastlines that they would rather not seen covered with spilled out (or coastal views they would just as soon have filled with offshore derricks [1]).<\/p>\n

Well, worry not, because it’s easy to get out of offshore oil development: just ask!<\/p>\n

Zinke announced today that, no, there won’t be any exploration off the coast of Florida. All Gov. Rick Scott had to do was ask.<\/p>\n

Oh, and be a loyal Trump supporter.<\/p>\n

Oh, and be running for the US Senate and wanting to avoid having Floridans, including even maybe some Republicans, being pissed off about offshore drilling.<\/p>\n

Of course, the excuse looks to be “Florida is unique and its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver.” Because I’m sure no other<\/i> coastal states are “unique,” or that their coasts are reliant on tourism, or fisheries, or other things that big oil spills might damage.<\/p>\n

California? Virginia? Maine? Washington? Alaska? Ugly coastlines, no tourists, drill, baby, drill.<\/p>\n

It’s good<\/i> to be a political ally of the the majority party, whether it’s getting access to all that precious oil and gas for your bottom line, or sealing it off so that you get votes for a Senate run.<\/p>\n

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\n[1] Insert ironic comment here about how Donald Trump pitched a hissy-fit over wind farms offshore from his Scottish golf course.<\/p>\n


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\nThe Trump Administration Will Not Allow Drilling Off the Florida Coast<\/a><\/span>
\nFlorida’s GOP Governor opposed the idea<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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After Trump’s Interior Secretary Zinke announced that pretty much everywhere would now be open to offshore oil drilling (and it was also announced that a bunch of regulations put in place around offshore drilling in the aftermath of the BP oil disaster a few years back), there was a lot of outrage from (among others) … Continue reading “Everyone gets offshore oil drilling … except, it seems, Florida”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,131,63,374,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-135783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-energy","category-environment","category-money-politics","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/unnamed-42.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132400,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/drill-baby-drill-not.html","url_meta":{"origin":135783,"position":0},"title":"Drill, Baby, Drill … Not","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Dec-16 3:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Obama will use a little-used provision in federal law to remove substantial Arctic and Atlantic coastal areas from oil exploration and drilling. 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