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Obama's loss is a victory for common sense

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Walter Geiger
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Wednesday, June 23. 2010
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Tuesday's ruling by a federal judge in New Orleans against President Obama's six-month moratorium on deep-water oil-drilling in the Gulf of Mexico was a victory for common sense and, if upheld, would preclude the disastrous economic fallout for our neighbors in the Gulf region that the moratorium would bring.

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#1 Anonymous on 06/23/10 at 08:10 AM
It is obvious the industry does not have the required technology to handle disasters when drilling at these depths. It’s just another situation where jobs and big money trump the common sense required to keep our environment unpolluted. Jobs come and go but once you poison the environment its gone for good.
#2 Anonymous on 06/23/10 at 10:51 AM
This is good, thumbs up for common sense. I know the oil explosion and resulting spill is catastrophic, but stop the knee jerk reactions already.

If someone is killed on the highway, do you ban further road construction?

The difference in a liberal and a conservative can be summed up as follows;

If a conservative does not like to eat meat, then he doesn't eat meat.

If a liberal does not like to eat meat, then nobody can eat meat.
#2.1 Anonymous on 06/23/10 at 11:56 AM
You’re dead wrong. If a liberal doesn’t eat meat they have enough sense and compassion to let others know that this choice is going to lead to heart disease, premature death, a drain of the health care industry and they also insure the suppliers don’t flood the media with false claims in how it’s good for you. The tobacco industry…..does that ring a bell? An informed public is a healthy one.
#3 G on 06/23/10 at 01:09 PM
It’s difficult to comprehend that we can send people almost 239,000 miles in the most hostile environment of space, land them on an orbiting moon, then bring them safely back home by penetrating an atmosphere that burns up almost anything that enters it, but we can’t plug a hole a mile away.

Sure the pressure may be 70,000 PSI but that doesn’t stop a device from being strategically placed in the line and inflated then pumping the hole full of space age cement. If we can build a pipeline across Alaska, why can’t we build a 1 mile pipeline to the surface?

Things just don’t add up.
#4 Anonymous on 06/23/10 at 01:17 PM
If at first you don't succeed, try again: Hours after a New Orleans judge struck down the Obama administration's moratorium on off-shore drilling, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that he will issue a new order reinstating the temporary ban. Salazar said in a statement that the new order will make clear why a six-month moratorium is essential and include additional evidence that safety conditions are inadequate in deepwater wells. "Based on this ever-growing evidence," he said, "I will issue a new order in the coming days that eliminates any doubt that a moratorium is needed, appropriate, and within our authorities." From "The Daily Beast"
#5 Anonymous on 06/23/10 at 02:08 PM
The oil spill is disastrous. Common sense would dictate that we find other sources of energy. Why do we stubbornly fight FOR continued dependence on oil?
#2, your logic needs revisiting..
#6 Anonymous on 06/23/10 at 02:28 PM
Same kind of crap with gun laws. They just punish the law abiding.
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