Forget eels, this is worse: Exploration on Georges Bank OK'd - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Bass Babe · 08-13-2005, 03:47 PM

Ick, ick, ICK! All this gas and oil garbage lately... I can deal with rising gas prices. I can deal with an increased price of my "basket of goods". I may even be able to deal with drilling in ANWR. But leave my fish alone!

TheSpecialist · 08-14-2005, 09:02 AM

Honestly why do you think this is so bad?? Look down south, and some of the best fishing is around the rigs..

bassmaster · 08-14-2005, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Honestly why do you think this is so bad?? Look down south, and some of the best fishing is around the rigs..

thats what i was thinkin

Nebe · 08-14-2005, 10:28 AM

I go down to texas every once in a while to visit family and there are several oil rigs just off the coast. When you walk down the beach you always have to be carefull of tarballs that wash in to shore from the rigs... if you step on one you cant get it off unless you have turpintine or some sort of solvent with you or in your car0 its friggin nasty stuff.

IMO, wind farms are the solution and would rather see those spinning off in the horizon any day over a nasty oil/ gas well...

Wind & solar is really the only solution to our problems. its clean, its some what reliable, and we dont have to ship it in from the middle east.

the rigs are very good for fishing down in texas, but a wind turbine tower would be just as good

likwid · 08-14-2005, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Honestly why do you think this is so bad?? Look down south, and some of the best fishing is around the rigs..

Stop reading magazines + what Eben said.

Galvaston is a pit.

fishsmith · 08-14-2005, 08:12 PM

self serve was $2.57 a gallon today, somethings got to be done.

Nebe · 08-14-2005, 10:31 PM

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self serve was $2.57 a gallon today, somethings got to be done.

your kidding me right?? you would rather save 2 cents a gallon than have fresh codfish & haddock that you know came from a clean body of water????

some of you guys kill me.

Newboater · 08-15-2005, 08:03 AM

I've always wondered what with the oil crunch what is happening to the oil being taken in Alaska and other U.S. oil fields?

We always say we are dependent on that Arab oil, where does our domestic oil go?

Some time back I heard that oil from the Alaska Oil fields gets sold to Asian countries.

Must be nice to have American Oil sold elsewhere and we pay for mid-east oil instead.

Sarge

MakoMike · 08-15-2005, 08:13 AM

Eben,
We have thos tar balls on the south shore of LI as well, they come from ships not the oil rigs. Looks at what's happeneing with the cape wind farm proposal and the similar Long Isalnd proposal, the NIMBYs are winning. I would love more solar and wind power, but what does that have to do with just finding out how much oil we have in the ground?