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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
some of those are on Grand Isle, I spent summers there every summer as kid growing up, grew up swimming in these waters and the beahces are now covered in oil.
I am without words, my family has lived in these areas and made their living from these waters since before this was called the "United States.
There is no way to measure my anger and sadness at this time.
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I spent summers down there every year as a kid. I was planning on renting a camp down there this summer but I guess not now.
We should shut down the state boarders and turn off the oil till the Fed Govt steps up and fixes this and also pays us our fair share of royalties.
What i think is total bullshit is that states like Florida and California don't drill for oil off their coasts but they don't pay extra fees either. They shouldn't have their cake and eat it too. If you don't want to drill fine, then you pay a 10% surcharge to the states that do drill. Why in the hell should we drill and send them our oil/gas and we have to suffer the consequences of drilling (destroying the cost from both erosion and now oil spills) where as Florida and California has none of those risks AND they get the oil for the same price we do. Fuck that. You have a choice. Drill or not. If not, then you pay a 10% surcharge to the state that produced the oil. If we send oil to Florida they pay 10% surcharge that goes back directly to LA to spend on dealing with the coastal erosion, oil spills, etc... for producing it here. Either play or pay or you don't get the oil.