Editor: I can see the Seminole City Council operates on emotion rather than logic with their anti-drilling resolution.
As a resident of Pinellas County for over 50 years – I grew up on St. Pete Beach – I have some questions.
Others I graduated with in 1955 went to work on the oil rigs. I’ve wondered about all the oil spills in the gulf ever since then. Name me one major oil spill from wells since 1955. I must have missed the story. If you check the beaches of Flora-bama where Florida and Alabama meet, there has been no damage from oil even with all of the storms and hurricanes over the last 50 years. There are wells close to this area.
As to the 1993 oil spill, since there are no wells off Tampa Bay, it’s apples and oranges. Heck, we even have oil wells in the Everglades – since the 1950s – I have seen them. Fifty years of hurricanes, yet where is the damage?
There are oil wells in the North Sea where good weather is worse than a storm in the gulf. On a bad day, waves can break over the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. I saw this on the carrier I was on.
Oil wells over the horizon are no threat. Natural gas wells are no threat.
Time to use your brain rather than rely on emotion.
