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Trump Will Push to Allow Drilling Off Florida Coast
June 10, 2020 at 1:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 103 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/10/trump-will-push-to-allow-drilling-off-florida-coast/
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The Trump administration is preparing to open the door to oil and gas drilling off Floridas coast but will wait until after the November election to avoid blowback in a swing state whose waters both parties have long considered sacrosanct, Politico
reports.
Drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico would fulfill a long-sought goal of energy companies
But even the possibility of drilling is a politically explosive topic for Floridians, who worry that oil spills would devastate their tourism-based economy in a reprise of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Also, jeezus god. Stop this a-hole!
pwb
(11,265 posts)He is just being a dick with more distractions from the high death count.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)He's just grabbing as much profit as he can at this point.
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)Im sure those residents of Florida would love the sight and smell on their beaches of oil, dead fish, dolphins and other sea life.
Why to get people to vote for your re election MF45!
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Heh. Too late. Cat is out of the bag, chumps.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)It it were to spoil his view he wouldn't do it.