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To: RetiredNow who wrote (73253)	4/30/2010 4:13:52 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Yes, no doubt about it. The Gulf has more vulnerable coastline than where the Valdez spill took place and we still don't know how to stop this new oil spill -- it could last for weeks or even months...The cleanup and recovery could take many, many years. Louisiana accounts for 75 percent of the fishery landings in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. our coastal ecosystems are totally at stake, but so is America’s ocean-based economy, which each year generates more than $230 billion and provides more jobs than the entire farm sector. Ocean-related tourism alone supplies 2 million jobs — jobs that depend on clean, healthy beaches and abundant fish, not oil slicks. The risk of deep water drilling in the Gulf is VERY significant and our nation is about to learn a difficult and expensive lesson (and it may take the Gulf states decades to recover from this new and growing oil spill)...Obama and the Congress will learn that we do NOT have the technology to do deep water drilling safely -- not near our vulnerable coastline.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (73253)	4/30/2010 8:32:18 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I think so. Looks to probably be more oil in the end. Area is really fragile. We are not so fragile-lol. Wild huge Pacific ocean. Alaska is sort of a bad ass-lol. But the gulf coast needs tender care. It is sort of like a cup of tea inhabitied by little crabs and shrimp fishes in very shallow estuaries. Prince william sound is the sides of underwater maountains. Shear cliffs crashing with wild ocean. Our raging pacific ocean is like a huge washing machine. IN the gulf it cannot be washed out. It could kill a lot of stuff. We lost nothing in comparison to what I see coming.