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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (215906)	1/8/2002 9:56:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Disney is the exception rather then the rule." >>> I don't think so. The opposition in Florida to offshore drilling was nearly unanimous from the real estate and tourism industries, and as I pointed out, so was the flow of campaign contributions. Same with North Carolina and Virginia, existing economic interests opposed the federal push to license sectors for drilling. I happen to support domestic drilling, but there is no disputing that there are existing economic interests that are threatened. It's not 'wild eyed ecologists' that the oil industry needs to win over (although that's often the bugaboo they trot before the public)... it's other industries and the people that they employ, and the money that they generate. It's a straight-up capitalist dog fight. The local economic interests of Texas are not the same as the local interests elsewhere.