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Originally Posted by will76
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.
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correction. California does drill off its coast, been to Ventura or Santa Barbara lately? plenty of rigs out there off the coast of CA.(dont know what they are pumping, could be NG)
i think the oil companies pay states that allow drilling, fees as a tax for allowing them to profit from the states natural resources, what your state does with those proceeds is a whole another buisiness. i think alaskans get kickbacks for their oil fields.
better then goldmines which just have to pay $1 per year per acre lease to the BLM and get to rape $8B in gold out of a hill.