Bachmann says she'd consider Everglades drilling

Source: MSNBC

SARASOTA, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Sunday that she would consider oil and natural gas drilling in the Everglades if it can be done without harming the environment.

Bachman said the United States needs to tap into all of its energy resources no matter where they exist if it can be done responsibly.

"The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness. Whether that is in the Everglades, or whether that is in the eastern Gulf region, or whether that's in North Dakota, we need to go where the energy is," she said. "Of course it needs to be done responsibly. If we can't responsibly access energy in the Everglades then we shouldn't do it."

In 2002, the federal government at the urging of President George W. Bush bought back oil and gas drilling rights in the Everglades for $120 million. Bachmann, who wants to get rid of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said she would rely on experts to determine whether drilling can be done without harming the environment.

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I'll be curious to see how this goes over in Florida.

Why doesn't someone smack these ______ up the side of the head when they say this and remind them that all oil drilled in the US goes on the world market??!!!
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I provided a space for the reader to insert a term of contempt and derision as I've used some of the most foul so often they've lost their meanings!

If they can find a way to get the oil, keep it in the US, and put all the environmental damage in Bachman's farm and front yard I'm all for it.

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leave the everglades alone!

Where is Marjorie Stoneman Douglas when we need her?

I lived for years 3 miles from the Everglades, was a member of "Friends of the Everglades" to protect it. Marjory Stoneman Douglas known as "Mother of the Everglades" wrote:

“There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.”

...my new mantra.

And as each RushTurd drops out, I'll just swap out the old name for the next one.

Oh...and she's an idiot.

Anything for a buck.

I'm sure she wouldn't have a problem with that, now would she?

:sarcasm:

"If we create a new department that is focused on conservation and get rid of the EPA, that would send a strong signal about what our priorities are."

Let me guess, a department with no scientists, just corporate appointees and hires who can push along that $$$ agenda.

Sales of "Half-Dome" granite counter tops could also support conservation efforts.

:sarcasm:

"So long as it can be done without harming the environment."

Hyperbole, but you're just as able to do one as the other.

Only an insane greed ravaged mind could think up some shit like that.

Minnesota, and let her hubby drill her. You just KNOW he'd find a disgusting, black, slippery goo deep inside her. Or maybe he could administer a fracking fluid enema and release some of the natural gas that pressures her dimwit brain.

Iowa can reclaim her if they want. I don't care where she goes, as long as it is away.

and I didn't think that was possible!

look what BP has done to the wetlands in LA? I mean the developers have done damage, but the damage BP has wrought is a fekkin crime. I think it should be mandatory that all politicians must take at least two semesters of environmental science and study ecosystems and our place in it.

Maybe they think one day we can all eat that black stuff bubbling up from the wetlands or there's always soylent green.

Well crap, Michelle, does that mean we should put a drilling rig on the national mall if there happens to be some shale gas there?

Build the smart-grid.
Put a solar panel on every street light and traffic light.
Start having Detroit build more cars that run on CNG - or better still, electric CNG hybrids.

They've been there for a while.

would have a fake expert team tell her what she wants, and she'd waste money plus hurt the environment.