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To: koan who wrote (82071)	7/2/2010 4:51:29 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Allow drilling on shore like Anwar and in shallow water and you won't have this problem. This is all the libs fault. I've taught my kids that liberals are the killers of the little children.

To: koan who wrote (82071)	7/3/2010 6:51:57 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

>It has everything to do with it. The purpose of the moratorium is to figure out what went wrong and try to prevent it in the future so that these fishermen will have their jobs.<< So you are telling me the fishermen want the moratorium lifted? Where did you get that idea? That sounds like a right wing idea. It may well sound like a winger idea but its the reality: Louisiana's unified voice against drilling ban State's biggest industry gets support from all corners, including fishermen GRAND ISLE, La. (MarketWatch) -- The BP oil spill has fouled the waters and devastated the fishing community on this island at the very tip of Louisiana, but it's hard to find anyone here who favors a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil companies and fishing vessels have peacefully co-existed in the Gulf for decades. And even though the spill threatens the livelihoods of most Grand Isle residents, it seems few -- if any -- favor pulling the plug on what is the state's biggest source of revenue. "It will trickle down; the economy will get even worse," said Perry Clement, a local who serves as a deck hand on several fishing boats, and is struggling for income. "It's the delicate balance we have, with the oil and the fishing." Dean Blanchard has lost a lot more, and yet he feels the same way. His Dean Blanchard Seafood Co. is the region's biggest shrimper. This year was supposed to be a bonanza, hauling in $100 million in product, he says. Now, Blanchard may have to start fishing off Costa Rica in order to maintain his business. But he nixes the idea of a moratorium on drilling. "We've been living together a long, long time," Blanchard said of the oil drillers. "They closed the wrong thing down. They should have closed the government down." Indeed, it's hard to find anyone in the state of Louisiana that favors President Barack Obama's plans to put a cap on deepwater drilling in an attempt to deal with safety issues arising from the BP spill. Not even the industry most damaged by it, fishing, is in favor of the ban. While the state's fishermen have provided the nation with a third of its seafood and kept New Orleans' renowned restaurants stocked with plenty of product, Louisiana and its offshore fields lead domestic oil production and the industry is the state's biggest job generator. It's also put many a patron at the table in those restaurants, locals say. Partner, not polluter Fishermen here don't look at the oil industry as a potential polluter. They look at it as a partner. The rigs in the Gulf are not eyesores to them; instead the subsea structures on which they rest act as artificial reefs that are potentially rich with products they can sell. Hundreds of offshore platforms and rigs in the waters off Louisiana provide the state with 30% of its gross domestic product, says Michael Hecht, president of the trade group Greater New Orleans Inc. Each deep-water rig employs roughly 300 people averaging nearly $100,000 a year in income. With roughly four other workers directly supporting each rig worker, that translates to 22,000 jobs that could be lost with the ban. The loss of the large income of these workers is expected to create a huge ripple effect throughout Louisiana. Hecht and other civic leaders, including Louisiana Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, have been pleading with the Obama administration to rethink the moratorium. They say the BP spill is an anomaly, as drillers have been operating in deep water for more than two decades without major problems. This week, U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman, who presides in New Orleans, ordered that the drilling ban be lifted. But the Obama administration has vowed to appeal, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has said he may issue another, modified drilling ban that addresses Feldman's concerns. The plan to keep a lid on deepwater drilling could be fatal for numerous companies and an economy that's just getting revitalized five years after Hurricane Katrina swept through the region and flooded three-fourths of New Orleans. read more............. marketwatch.com