So? What's so big about tourism anyway?
Tourism brings in revenue. No will want to go to the beach if there oil in it or it smells like oil.
Name the big tourism beaches that have been shut down due to this oil spill.
The oil is still traveling, give it time.
And 99% of those people are in Louisiana and WANT the drilling to continue. And quite a few people in the gulf states depend on oil drilling.
The people in Louisiana do not own the Gulf of Mexico nor are the only ones who use it.
Ok, so what you're saying is a company that has never had a blowout, oil leak, etc is punished by BP's behavior.
Logic tells me that if they have not fixed the leak in a timely manner then it is a good idea to cease drilling operations until the can fix leak like that in a timely manner.
I don't think you're very conservative.
Why? Because I do not think it is worth risking the Gulf of Mexico being turned into a cesspool?
It is the point. Louisianans are not the only the only ones who use the gulf nor are oil rig workers the only ones with Jobs win the Gulf states.
You must be joking. You think BP is going to hire the 30,000 people that will be out of work to clean up the oil for the next 3 decades? You can't be this stupid. You MUST be joking.
Someone is going to have hire people to clean up the oil. Do you honestly think that oil is going to be cleaned up overnight? Look up the Exxon Valdez oil spill, its 21 years later and they still haven't finished cleaning it all up and the BP leak is much worse. You must be ****ing stupid if you think that stuff is going to be cleaned up over night.
There sure is. And I'm not saying anyone should stop their touring or fishing.
If oil washes up on the shores why would anyone want to go to the beach, if oil is killing fish how is anyone going to fish? You must be pretty retarded if you think that **** is not going to be affected.
Stopping drilling won't help.
Yes it will. Stopping drilling ensures that another BP type leak will not happen. When they can fix deep off shore oil leaks then I will be more than happy to support deep off shore oil drilling.Has BP fixed the leak yet? **** no they haven't. SO what happens if another deep off shore oil rig has a leak like BO's? Twice the disaster?
It will hurt FAR more than it will help.
The decades of consequences far outweigh oil rig workers jobs and other related jobs.
No, but 50 people died the last time. 400 in the TWA disaster. Only 11 died in this disaster. Are we valuing human jobs over lives?
IN other words that plan crash did not destroy miles of land,cities or destroy the livelihoods of lots of people?
No, I'm bashing Obama because he keeps sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.
40,000 plus oil rigs in the gulf of Mexico and not one of the companies that owns those rigs has a solution to fix the BP leak in a timely manner, most people would find that very troubling. He should stick his nose in this.
Oh I know, I mean let's let Iran help us clean up our own oil. That makes sense. I'd sure like to know what issues you are "very conservative" about. You sound like the biggest lib on this forum.
If Iran is a oil producing nation then perhaps they have experience in fixing deep water leaks. Why turn them down. And what do you mean by our oil? Isn't oil BP's?
I'd sure like to know what issues you are "very conservative" about.
You think deep off shore oil drilling is the one defining issue with conservatives?
You sound like the biggest lib on this forum.
You sound like the biggest nut on the forum.