Murzin says we support offshore drilling
State Rep. Dave Murzin (R-Pensacola) voted in committee to support a bill which would make it much easier for oil companies to drill offshore in Florida. The bill, HB 1219, would give the Governor and Cabinet the power to approve offshore drilling as close as three miles from Florida coastlines.
When asked about his vote by Gannett reporter Jim Ash, Rep. Murzin defended his support by saying, “Sure, I voted for it. My constituents support it.”
We do?
Rep. Murzin cites a constituent survey he did in 2006, in which he claims 80% of his constituents supported offshore natural gas drilling.
Do we really want to see oil platforms offshore when we go to Pensacola Beach? How will that impact tourism?
Links
- Tallahassee Democrat: “‘Timing is everything’ in bid to greenlight offshore drilling”
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I’m sure 80% of the people they chose to ask support it……
Murzin, Murzin, Murzin Quit thinking about $$$$ for the oil companies and start thinking about the $$$$ for cleanup and the $$$$$$$$$$$ for detriment to our area. Oh Murzin tell us how clean and beautiful oil rigs are .
We will not see any significant change in fuel prices by doing this that can be worth the risk and cost to us in other ways.
say no to oil ball beaches
http://pbrla.blogspot.com/2009/04/florida-coast-drilling-postponed.html
Good for him. I certainly support it. Put an oil rig in my front yard. That some people look at the process of getting more of our own resources some kind of sin amazes me. Those who think the EPA should run the oil industry don’t agree with Murzin. But that’s nothing new.
Florida should embrace the idea of getting our own oil, with the royalties for the State that would go with it, and the jobs it would create. All that, and Floridians can be proud of the contribution Florida makes to the country in reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
Ross, I’d love to buy in, but I can’t. I don’t believe the baloney.
And the lottery was going to increase money to our school system so that it could be top notch. right
And building a ballpark will bring my attorney daughter home to work.
Ross, Where exactly is your front yard? Please send the address to the Murz.
And the State of Alaska writes checks to all its citizens from monies earned (not confiscated via taxation of the working people)from the mineral rights to the oil and gas that the oil companies produce.
The toughest nut to crack will be determining what the State would do with that portion of the revenue, and the degree of transparency of its use.
unfortunately the definition of transparency for those spending the money is different than those watching it being spent.
Where is the school lottery money that was going to fix Florida education system that is still on life support ?.
Florida’s education money was taken like a shell game.
The lottery was sold to Floridians as a way to get enough money to fund education. Well, it would have been enough, had they not redirected the monies they were already collecting for education to other projects and into other accounts. Floridians were not told that that was what they were going to do. The result being, we’re no better off now in financing education than we were before the lottery was started. All we have to show for it now is a bigger, more expensive government.
Whatever financial track the potential mineral royalty money takes, it must be set in stone and out in the open BEFORE the issue is ever put to a public vote so that the politicos don’t try another shell game.
Nothin with policktions is set in stone and more and more we seeing the public paying shut out from process and input.
I wouldn’t bet one dollar on promises made by the same people that have mismanaged the windfalls and are now crying about shortages.