This puts even more area of the country off limits to offshore drilling. How the fuck does that help anyone? Leftists aren't going to see this and suddenly vote Trump, and for the rest of us.....how the fuck is this helping us?
Yes, I'm upset, and no, this isn't concern trolling. Look at my posts, look at my numbers. I will crawl across broken glass to vote for Trump, but this is one of a few things he has done I just do not understand or agree with.
Oil and gas are cheap and plentiful now, but what about 5 years from now? 10 years from now?
As far as fishing goes, any fisherman will tell you that the best place to fish offshore is near a rig, as the substructure provides a great place for fish to hang out. I can't argue with the 'despoiling the view' argument, though, and the Deepwater Horizon disaster did make clear that accidents can happen, so there's that. Still, I don't like taking a tool out of the toolbox. What if, 5 years from now, we really NEED whatever oil is there, offshore in those states, and we can't get to it?
Moratoria can be reversed.
If oil gets cheaper, you wind up losing oilfield service companies and rigs shut down anyway, damaging the industry for years and still getting higher prices.
Floridians don’t want oil spilling all over their beaches and fucking up their fisheries; I assume NC folks feel the same about the Outer Banks.
Texas and Louisiana are already in the Mississippi deadzone, so they have less to lose with oil production.