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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (138649)	8/2/2008 3:59:41 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

RE:"When the oil washes ashore in FL killing the tourism business and the culprit wipes out the FL budget fighting it in court for 20 years, Jim will change his tune." The safety of drilling has improved greatly in the last 40 years. There are hundreds of platforms in the GOM now. They routinely get hit by hurricanes. When's the last time you heard of a big oil spill hitting Texas or Louisiana from a rig? Do you know where the line of no-drilling is now in the GOM? When is the last time you visited the 2,000 out of 19,000,000 acres the want to drill on a mud flat in ANWR?