What really gets me is that BP is a British corporation, and Transoceanic Ltd, the company that owns the rigs, is a Swiss corporation. The oil that is harvested from near our shores is not earmarked for the US, it is put on the international oil market, for our companies to bid on just like everyone else in the world. But it is OUR country and OUR ecology that pays the biggest price. If you're going to possibly endanger our shores and natural resources, at least give us a good deal on the oil. The Gulf of Mexico should be off limits to other countries except those whose shores are affected. We should extend our territorial waters.
So, Obama, and Florida politicians, still want to push for drilling off the coast of Florida?
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