House Passes Ban on CA Offshore Drilling
The House passes bill that protects the CA coast from offshore drilling and extends the banned area:
California moved a step closer to permanently protecting its shores from offshore oil drilling Monday when the House approved legislation to ban development in federal waters along all 76 miles of Sonoma County’s coastline and off the southern tip of Mendocino County’s coast.
The measure would more than double the size of two existing National Marine Sanctuaries near San Francisco and Marin - Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank. The newly protected zone would stretch from Bodega Bay to Point Arena and would extend about 50 miles off the coast - 2,093 square nautical miles, an area roughly the size of Delaware.
We can’t get the House to agree to build a fence, how long to build the fence or when to build the fence to PROTECT us, but I’m sure our Republican friends fought tooth and nail against this as offshore drilling is a viable solution to our dependency on foreign oil:
The measure by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, had faced opposition last month from some Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee, who warned that it would cut off access to potential future supplies of oil and gas. But the House passed it Monday on a voice vote without any fanfare.
Ok, maybe not. Not sure what our elected “leaders” expect us to do as they rail against our dependency on foreign oil; they won’t lets us build wind mills, because Ted Kennedy’s view would be blocked, they won’t let us build nuclear plants, and they won’t let us drill for our own oil.
Well, I’m sure but using the Fred Flinstone method to get to work is not a solution either.
– ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx