Virginians - Bob McDonnell just proposed offshore oil drilling off the Virginia coast.

[arcadian]

This asshole has got to go. :mad:

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Advances in technology can unleash more natural gas, nuclear, wind, coal, and alternative energy to lower your utility bills.

Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to be the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore.

But this Administration’s policies are delaying offshore production, hindering nuclear energy expansion, and seeking to impose job-killing cap and trade energy taxes.

Now is the time to adopt innovative energy policies that create jobs and lower energy prices.

[DBoon]

1. there's oil off the Virginia coast?

I mean aside from the slippery stuff that politicians like McDonnell produce

[hatrack]

5. Uh, no . . . if there were, there would likely be drill rigs there

But that's never stopped Republicans from rolling out the Bullshit Cart whenever politically expedient . . . . "If them damn Tree-huggerz would just let us drill fer awhl, it'd just BE there!!!!:

[Neurotica]

2. That was one of his campaign "promises"

AAARGH!

[FSogol]

3. The Dept of Interior said no to him today. He's been pouting since

he thinks it will pay for all the roads in Virginia.

[Neurotica]

6. Thank you for the update! I thought I had heard something about this today

but I couldn't find a reference

[FSogol]

8. I was in today's Washington Post, iirc. n/t

[arcadian]

7. That ocean was my backyard growing up.

It's also where my parents were laid to rest. That little rat fuck.

[renegade000]

4. that and he's going to ignore transportation...

and try to privatize everything under the sun...

wish us luck DU...we're going to need it.