Zinke Claims He Exempted Florida From Drilling Plan Due To 'Coastal Currents'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Caitlin MacNeal | January 24, 2018 11:28 am
About three weeks after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced that he would exempt Florida from the Trump administrations plan to expand offshore drilling, Zinke on Tuesday offered a new explanation for his decision.
Zinkes announcement exempting Florida was seen as a political move since top Republicans are pushing Gov. Rick Scott to run for Senate in 2018.
Zinke told CNN that he was moved to exempt Florida because the states coast is unique. The coastal currents are different, the layout of where the geology is, he said.
He also claimed that he met with Gov. Scott quickly, and not with the governors of other states, about the issue because Scott and every member representing Florida contacted him.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ryan-zinke-florida-drilling-coastal-currents
pangaia
(24,324 posts)question everything
(47,486 posts)coming straight at him.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)lkinwi
(1,477 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,734 posts)Exempting Florida was just a suckup to Fearless Leader.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Somebody spent too much time in Montana!
DBoon
(22,367 posts)If offshore drilling is allowed
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)When we win the House!
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)gets to be an easy habit, and your gullibles will believe anything
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Florida's currents and geography won't be proven to be any more special or different than CA or SC. He basically just destroyed the WH's defense
And a boon for the expert witnesses they can hire to prove just that.
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Jill Wine-Banks is a US treasure. I love her witch broach worn during interviews after the infamous "witch hunt" claim by IT.
LeftInTX
(25,374 posts)Can't even swim at Vandenberg AFB.
Is the current at Pensacola different from the current at Mobile?
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)It also has to break around all the oil rigs that are already out there.
Here's the problem: If you look at the Wiki page for oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, you learn that people have already tried exploring for oil around Florida. So far they have drilled 59 wells around Florida and all of them have been dry holes. If they would have come clean with the people and told them there's no oil around Florida - and we have looked HARD for it - so just drilling more and more dry holes is going to raise the price of gas for no good reason, people would accept that. This shit about currents sounds like they're trying to come up with a reason to keep the president's paying customers from having to look at oil rigs while they're sipping their cocktails at sunset.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)and thinks others are too.
VaBchTgerLily
(231 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)And because they don't want to hurt dolphins.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Surrounded by water. In other states its land surrounded by oil.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)'The Layout of the Study of the Inorganic Aspects of the Earth' doesn't really make a whole lotta sense as a sentence ...
lark
(23,105 posts)He's doing this to fuck CA,NY,MA,MD,DE,RI because they didn't vote for russia/repugs and exempting FL because russia hacked our votes in South FL so drumpf would win. They know oil drilling would be a game changer here and they;d lose bigly and FL has too many electoral votes for them to stomach losing. Guarantee you, if FL votes Dem in 2018, drilling will be started here asap as punishment. That's the way their evil (lack of) brains work.
diane in sf
(3,914 posts)Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)The layout of where the geology is...
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)marble falls
(57,104 posts)deposits of money in his pocket. Whats a couple bribe .... er ... favors between friends?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)of cash.