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   dtroutma said, 2 months ago

   Not nearly a big enough dozer- either environmentally, or in the lobbying realm.(world-wide)

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   scottfreitas said, 2 months ago

   Propaganda. No US offshore drilling platform has ever caused an oil slick yet. In fact, American oil companies drill oil more cleanly than do any foreign oil companies.

   Oil spills are always caused by shipping accidents. Boohoo, as if its possible to move liquids around the wordl 24/7 without ever spilling any…

   Watermelons. You make me sick.

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   cjr53 said, 2 months ago

   1969 - Union Oil - Offshore Oil Drilling Platform blowout - Huge oil slick in Santa Barbara Channel, all over the beaches, many sickened and dead members of the wildlife community.

   ScottFreitas, go check you facts again as your post does not look like your comments could be facetious.

   http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jeff/sb69oilspill/69oilspillarticles2.html

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   scottfreitas said, 2 months ago

   oh. scuse me. 1969. when the technology was still brand new…

   30 years later, where’s the oil slicks? Why, from russian drilling rigs,,, and brazilian drilling drills… and chinese drilling rigs…

   None from american drilling rigs. Yet American politicians stop only the US from drilling for oil…

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   believecommonsense said, 2 months ago

   cjr YES! I lived in Santa Barbara Co. at that time. That was a ghastly and tragic spill. It harden the viewpoints of many on the coast … no more drilling beyond what was already there

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   senorbullwinkle said, 2 months ago

   They leak 24-7, just because you dont hear about it, dont mean a thing. The Gulf is the worst, but Santa Barbara leaks usually go out to sea.

   article
   http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/27/jindal-katrina-oil-spill/

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   NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

   When the people get poor enough …they’ll let us start drilling.
   BCS, do your neighbors like the brown-, black-outs California was plagued with?

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   believecommonsense said, 2 months ago

   Puppy, as i recall it was not a big issue where I was at the time (Sacramento), but in the summer Sacto without electricity for air conditioning is like Hades

   actually, they seemed to have managed the energy crisis fairly well

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   cjkinsey said, 2 months ago

   pup, the brown/black outs were now shown to be a creation of enron energy traders, purposefully taking generators offline.

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    NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

    I’ll defer to your assertion, cjkinsey…but, increasing energy as a whole could change the dynamic for the better. In St.Louis we had an energy outage (two years ago?) during one of the hottest spells I can remember…I had to go to a cooling “station” set up in a hospital. I am really SURPRISED there was not more unrest and even violence in the region (We behaved pretty well, actually)…And I wonder if the Electric Co. has bothered to insure that such an outage does not occur again.

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    HUMPHRIES said, 2 months ago

    scottfrietas, cranky today from too many hours in surgery ?

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    dtroutma said, 2 months ago

    Read the sign on the dozer blade again. It’s international, ask the French, Swedes, Norwegians, Brits, Nigerians, Vietnamese, or those from Texas, Louisiana or other places that see thousands of “serious” leaks every year around the world from offshore drilling. There is a pretty big “margin of error” before companies are forced to pay for any damages, or spills are big enough to get into the news media.

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    believecommonsense said, 2 months ago

    cjr is correct about Enron. The CA legislature foolishly bought the lie that deregulating energy would be more efficient, economical, etc. The opposite happened, of course. It was a debacle, and Enron was at the center of it. This was proved in court, BTW. Enron basically broke CA’s bank, with the state having to borrow money to buy electricity at the rates Enron set.

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    cjkinsey said, 2 months ago

    pup, I agree, people have been very understanding/forgiving and civil as they have been taken advantage off. I would entirely agree about increasing energy creation, but I would prefer that it be decentralized. Putting energy creation on each home to its capacity with solar PV or wind, and using the money we have spent on banks, to help people in the US.

    
    
    1. Money to improve the efficiency of each home
    
    
    2. money to buildings to add energy creation systems, (solar Pv and wind)
    
    
    3. Money to the utilities to improve the grid and research into energy storage.