who signed the offshore drilling ban?

It doesn’t matter what we say to you, because there is no debating people like you.

Trolls.

I was talking about environmental damage and you know that. You also know that the link you cited from the Minerals and Mining Service indicated there were no shoreline or wildlife impacts from the spills.

Nitro,

The American people want off shore drilling and they know that liberal Democrats in Congress refuse to allow the kind of offshore drilling that would allow Americans to tap into 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Keep up the name calling too please, because Sean will start zapping your comments next. And you call me the partisan???

Your half truths, lies, mischaracterizations and spin are only fooling people YOU agree with. Maybe you should go to a ditto-head website and post your partisan crap sandwich.

You are a troll.

Then again, I don’t read your favorite paper, “The Planet Denial Daily.”

Since you’re such a fan of the MMS, their 2006 estimate shows that there are about 86 billion barrels of oil in the outer continental shelf and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. http://www.mms.gov/revaldiv/RedNatAssessment.htm

And your party is the one blocking our ability to tap into those resources.

I just googled “hurricane katrina oil spill damage” and on the first page, was this:

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According to the US coastguard, 37 shallow oil platforms are missing from the Gulf and another 20 have been badly damaged, including four deep-sea ones. The department of the interior’s oil minerals management service (MMA) said that 70% of the Gulf of Mexico’s oil output and 54% of its gas were still closed off because of Katrina.
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Now, as I live on terra firma, I don’t have to look any further to find out the obvious: 37 missing oil platforms caused damage.

There’s been plenty of damage done; among other stuff I read the Times Picayune on a regular basis since I have family down there.

You, residing on Planet Denial, need stuff spelled out in detail, which you still will ignore since you don’t live in the reality-based community.

When your party gets spanked in just a few weeks, remember that it’s true believers, just like you, that directly contributed to it.

MMS also is releasing the following tally of hurricane-related oil/condensate/chemical spills in Federal offshore OCS waters as reported to MMS and the National Response Center. Six spills of 1,000 barrels or greater were reported; the largest of these was 3,625 barrels of condensate reported by the Gulf South Pipeline Company in the Eugene Island Block 51 area. A total of 146 spills of 1 barrel or greater have been reported in the Federal OCS waters; 37 of these were 50 barrels or greater. No shoreline or wildlife impacts were noted from these spills.

I did not say we didn’t have any oil spills. I said we didn’t have any damage, an accident like the Valdez, from the major hurricanes that went through the Gulf. As the MMS reports, No shoreline or wildlife impacts were noted from the spills.

I would point out that oil has been seeping naturally from the ocean floor off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA to the tune of thousands of gallons a day, which has injured birds and other animals. This is in contrast to the derricks in the Gulf which caused no harm to wildlife or the shores.

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/02/local/me-oil2