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Originally Posted by Why
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.
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Pretty sure California doesn't drill for oil.
Sure the oil companies pay the state they are operating out of, but that is not my point. If Florida and California say "no we don't want oil rigs off of our cost" then fine. Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Alaska etc.. can all say the same thing then right??? Why is it that some states get fucked having to deal with this shit and the others say " oh no, not us... but btw, send that oil you get over to us we need it". Fuck that. You either drill or compensate the state drilling if you choose not to drill. The "not in my back yard" people have been getting away with too much for to long. Either pay extra for it, or produce it yourself, or stop using it.
People don't realize all these oil wells need pipe lines. When they put pipe lines in the cut right through the marsh. There are tons of pipe lines down here that helped make coastal erosion a lot worse. Which happens then is we have less land to break up the surge from hurricanes. So now our levees take the brunt and there is nothing to knock it down before that. What little buffer (marsh) we have left is now soaking in oil. So to all the people that said " don't rebuilt back that city" after Katrina. That's nice, about 30% of the oil produced in the US comes from Louisiana, the oil companies killed our coast line and make us much more vulnerable to flooding from hurricanes, but as long as the rest of the country gets their oil from us they don't give a shit what happens to the people who lives here.
