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To: Slagle who wrote (64987)	6/14/2005 12:00:40 AM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 74559

More likely the fact that the Mississippi drains a continent and moves immense amount of sediment into the Gulf. The Muddy Mississippi has always been muddy. Some of the Texas river drain a bunch also. Florida is 200 miles wide, so the rivers don't run far. (Except the St. Johns, which goes into the Atlantic. Florida is flat, so the upstream parts often don't have as much velocity to move sediment. Florida is all limestone, sand and tourists, so except for the stray beach hat, most to the solid material is clean. The biological material gets eaten by something, leaving pretty clean sand. I will speculate that one reason offshore Florida was not drilled earlier is there are few onshore oil fields, and they are small - the Jay field near Pensacola, and the one in Collier county. There was also no nearby infrastructure to process the oil. Looking at the map, I would also assume there was a deliberate effort to keep some potenital oil areas in reserve for the future. I think Prudohe Bay in Alaska was in this category at one time. Later, the environmental issues came along... It easier to tell the public that you have to pay high prices for gasoline to have clean beaches than you have to pay high prices for gasoline so your grand kids can have enough jet fuel to defend the country and run the economy. Any way, looking at the map, there is no reason for the oil deposits to stop at the Alabama - Florida line.