Texas is full of crazy people that live on the extremes of society in the USA and NOT within its reality.
Texas is NOT even in touch with the real world. They don't care about the USA, except, as a market place of its oil.
We don't want these issues anymore and there is no reason for the entire country to have to suffer the political slings and arrows of Texas Oil Lawmen just because it is fun.
Texas sues feds over offshore drilling ban (click title to entry - thank you)
8/12/2010 3:24 PM
By Jessica M. Karmasek
...."The federal government ignored the State of Texas and failed to comply with the law when the Secretary of the Interior unilaterally imposed the Administration's offshore drilling ban," Abbott said in a statement.
"Under federal law, affected states are guaranteed the right to participate in offshore drilling-related policy decisions, but the Obama Administration did not bother to communicate, coordinate or cooperate with Texas. Worse, the Secretary of the Interior failed to consider the economic consequences of his decision, which will cost the Texas economy millions of dollars -- and threatens far too many hard-working Texans' jobs."....
The Federal government does not have to answer to the States in an emergency situation. Did Bush and Cheney call up the States and ask permission to ground jets in the USA for three days after 911? Except for the ones that flew the Bin Laden family home to Saudi Arabia, that is.
NO !
This is no different and just because this is OIL there is suppose to be SPECIAL circumstances?
NO !
The majority of the USA has had enough of the 'dirty' industries of The South and the hardship they cause the rest of us. Eat this Texas!
The environmental groups seeking relief in lawsuits against the Interior Department ALSO need to file against the Gulf States, espeically Texas and Louisiana with the worst track records in the nation !
Environmental group sues Interior Secretary Salazar over oil spill negligence (click here)
By Virginia Chamlee
7/27/10 9:56 AM
The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group based in Arizona, filed suit against Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Monday, alleging the U.S. government negligently assessed effects of a potential oil spill.
In a press release detailing the lawsuit, the center’s oceans director, Miyoko Sakashita, says that the risks of offshore drilling weren’t properly examined in the past: “While Salazar’s conclusion that exploration drilling in the Gulf posed little risk of a large oil spill was dubious at the time it was made, in light of BP’s calamity that position is completely untenable. … The public deserves disclosure and a full analysis of the true impacts of oil drilling off our coasts.”
According the the center, all oil drilling currently taking place in the gulf is reliant upon “assumptions made in 2007 that oil spills would not put endangered species at risk.” In a 2007 Oil-Spill Risk Analysis published by the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service, the liklihood of a spill seriously affecting endangered species was dubbed “extremely low.”
But Sakashita doesn’t place all the blame on the Interior Department. In the June 26 press release, she said that statements made by the president were also incorrect: “Like Obama’s April 2 statement that ‘oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills,’ the administration’s assumption that the largest possible oil spill was 15,000 barrels — less than one day of oil spilled from the ruptured BP well — has been proven absurd by the Gulf oil disaster.”...
