Discussion: Zinke Claims He Exempted Florida From Drilling Plan Due To 'Coastal Currents'

[system1]

Zinke Claims He Exempted Florida From Drilling Plan Due To 'Coastal Currents' Back to article

[lizzymom]

Amazing, isn’t it, how stuff like this spreads through the information space… Ya just can’t cover up favors for friends anymore, can you?

[cervantes]

Zinke Claims He Exempted Florida From Drilling Plan Due To ‘Coastal Currents’

If “Coastal Currents” is another porn star, please don’t anyone tell me.

[matx]

Let’s see the supportive scientific studies and explain why Deepwater Horizon was not catastrophic for other parts of the Gulf coast aside from Floriduh.

[benthere]

Hinky Zinke! If you can’t convince them with facts, baffle them with bull shit!

[sysprog]

UH HUH…and the entire Pacific Coast has NO currents so just drill, baby, drill? It took you three weeks to come up with this you ratfkin’ POS? Lord.

[tigersharktoo]

And oddly enough, no currents off Santa Barbara, Zinke’s other home.

[keninmn]

Zinke told CNN that he was moved to exempt Florida because the state’s coast is unique.

“The coastal currents are different, the layout of where the geology is,” he said.

But that is science and science is THE DEVIL! So Ryan Zinke is in league with Satan…

[gusfabriani]

If you can convince them with facts, what’s the need in baffling them with bullshit?

[benthere]

Meant “can’t.” Amending. Thanks, good catch!

[susanintheoc]

California’s coast is also important for tourism.

[chelsea530]

Arrrrrgh. Are you kidding me?

I suppose those “coastal currents” stop at the Georgia border, right?

Good grief.

[dickweed]

Currents that would take spill oil to Mar A Lago?

[leftcoaster]

Huh, I guess the Graveyard of the Pacific doesn’t count? Zinke is so full of shit.

Graveyard of the Pacific

[professorpoopypants]

This doesn’t even pass the laugh test.

I’m not expert on coastal currents, but I’m pretty sure Florida isn’t the only part of our shoreline where currents would bring an oil spill to shore. Same as his earlier explanation about tourism…as if Florida was the only place where an oil spill hitting the shore would devastate tourism.

They’re barely even pretending anymore.

[pshah]

Florida’s coastal currents are different.

Apparently, there is this huge, tsunami-like blue wave developing that threatens to engulf Republicans from one coast to the other.

[doginvt]

Wasn’t “Coastal Currents of my mind” a popular song way back when?

I know, that’s stupid but I have lost my mind.

[coprophagoussmile]

If he were really worried about currents he would have exempted North Carolina and our freaky, dangerous coastline. (But we have a Democratic governor.)

Graveyard of the Atlantic

[jloomis3]

Know a lot about costal currents, do you Zinkie?

[tiowally]

“A lot of people don’t know that Florida is one of the only places on Earth where ‘coastal currents’ occur,” he added. “Did you know that? A lot of people don’t know that.”