Will an increase in off shore drilling

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by KneeJerk

I have never been to a beach where there were offshore oil rigs within twenty miles that wasn't littered with tar. It sticks to your feet and your beach towel, then it sticks to the floor mats in your car, and if you haven't realized it by the time you get back to the hotel, it will stick to the carpets in your room. Disgusting.

Cali?

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by Levin

Landpoke, ask yourself: could Whitman have written this on your industrial beach?


On the Beach at Night, Alone.
by Walt Whitman

ON the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining—I think a thought of the clef of the universes, and of
the future.

A VAST SIMILITUDE interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets, comets, asteroids,
All the substances of the same, and all that is spiritual upon the same,
All distances of place, however wide,
All distances of time—all inanimate forms,
All Souls—all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes—the fishes, the brutes,
All men and women—me also;
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages;
All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this globe, or any globe;
All lives and deaths—all of the past, present, future;
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d, and shall forever span them, and
compactly hold them, and enclose them.

I don't see how a platform 20 miles off shore would prevent him from writing that.

[MikeWaters]

My family went to Galveston sometime after an oil spill. My brother came out of the water after accidentally tanging with an oil patch in the water. It was like someone poured motor oil on him.

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

My family went to Galveston sometime after an oil spill. My brother came out of the water after accidentally tanging with an oil patch in the water. It was like someone poured motor oil on him.

Did he die?

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by landpoke

Did he die?

Nope. But it made him gay.

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Nope. But it made him gay.

If that's the price that has to be paid for cheap energy then I'm willing to pay it.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Nope. But it made him gay.

I seriously started typing this, but stopped because I felt that was just too damn mean.

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

My family went to Galveston sometime after an oil spill. My brother came out of the water after accidentally tanging with an oil patch in the water. It was like someone poured motor oil on him.

By the way, I'll now have the lyrics to Glen Campbell's hit song
"Galveston" stuck in my head for the next week. Thanks.

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin'
I still see her dark eyes glowin'
She was 21 when I left Galveston

[TripletDaddy]

Some of the most popular surf breaks in SoCal:

1. Huntington Beach.....a few blocks from small pumps
2. San Onofre: literally right next to 2 large nuclear reactors on the sand
3. South Bay: in the shadow if the El Segundo Chevron refinery

I dont go to the beach to sit on the sand and look out onto the horizon with my binoculars. If there is a pump 5 miles offshore, what do I care?

People will not stop going to the beach because there is an oil rig nearby.

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by KneeJerk

Yes. Carpenteria, near the Channel Islands and Santa Barbara.

Those are well documented natural seeps and have nothing to do with the rigs offshore. In fact there have been studies that show pretty convincingly that drilling activity actually helps control and lessen such seeps.