if it brings the prices back to normal, or ensures that the prices wont shoot back up, i say drill anywhere, face the facts, we here inside the US have atleast 200 years of oil reserves, in the ground, with technology being so advanced dont you think we will within the next 200 yrs find a different form of fueling this country? charge a SMALL tax on the domestic oil the tax goes to help fund the scientist developing these fuels. the reason RO stated the incident 30 yrs ago, is because thats the last time we have had a major spill. it is totally safe and wont harm our beaches, i will be fishing around those rigs, great fishing.

String, it isn’t that easy.  Once these people start encroaching on the military’s areas it’s just a matter of time until they find a way to take them away as well.  Look at Eglin as a prime example. While I could care less about the beaches I do see how easily we gave away the wetlands around West bay and I figure it’s only a matter of time until someone finds a way to sell their souls to big oil as well and give the Gulf to them.  People that think only in terms of dollar signs have no morals as to what, or who, they destroy.

No offshore drilling off our beaches as it could ruin the beaches forever as it has in Long Beach,California, that once had pristine beaches 30 years ago and now they have black sand and water unfit to swim in from long term sepage. The oil companies have thousands of leases already that they don’t even use. This is just a ploy for them to tie up and steal everything. They have more oil in Anwar than the entire Gulf. They need to drill there,first! They just want the whole nation and take it if they could. They are greedy. I say, drill on the leases they already have, then Anwar.
Where is all of our oil from Iraq? We should be receiving war reprations from them from all the money we’ve spent. You can get gasoline for 28 cents a gallon over there and they don’t even have a refinery but ship it here to be refined,yet why do they get it so cheap? It’s because we are being ripped off by Big Oil and everyone knows it.
More solar,wind,natural gas, and conservation is needed.Not the Gulf.

We need the off shore drilling, out in the Gulf, When the state of Florida start looking at the drill sites, they can place the military area’s off limits. As for Panama city they can start looking at he business that could come from the oil company and the jobs that it will have for the people of Bay County.