Hands Across the Sand Protest - Surfrider Foundation - Miami Beach
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Uploaded by crsurf20 on Feb 15, 2010
The Surfrider Foundation Miami Chapter partnered with local schools, churchs, community and environmental groups to hold a protest against oil drilling off the Florida Coast. Called "Hands Across the Sand", thousands of protestors from all over the state wore black to symbolize an oil spill and joined hands in support of clean renewable energy. Florida has a $65 billion tourist industry that would be ruined by the potential of an oil spill. For more information go to: wwwsurfridermiami.org or www.handsacrossthesand.org
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please also see Hands Across Malibu
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So You Still want Oil ? Well come and get IT!!! ~ Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick - Worse Than BP Admits
This is what happens when you allow the Greedy to Rule!
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If we don't drill, China and other countries will drill our resources off our coasts and charge us extremely high prices for playing the fool.
They have already shown an interest in doing so.
They won't be concerned about our " environment " and whether they are following our enviromental rules.
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Great images- particularly all the folks on the beach. Awesome!
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@crsurf20 Another reason oil and petroleum is not chaep and plentiful is that treehugger organizations have prevented the construction of new oil refineries in the United States. Thats why we have to sell our oil to foreign countries and let them refine it and then buy it back from them. Did you know that the newest oil refinery in the United States was built in 1974. If we had the refining capacity, we could be energy independent.
SERPO
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@crsurf20 , Dude, there is billions of barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico waiting for us to get. It can be produced with little or no impact on the environment. School yourself, friend. I have worked in the oil industry off and on for the past ten years and my father worked in it for over 40. Don't believe all the hysteria you hear about the oil industry.
SERPO
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sup smart ones.. .nice shoes... did you know that offshore oil helped make them? oh love your sunglasses... oh.. are they plastic? oil made them too
you people dont get it... oil is everywhere... if its not wood or metal.. its oil or gas... even the wood and metal rely on them for transport and for production
andestwisted 1 year ago
If we reduced our need for it by switching to clean renewable energy, then we could still produce enough oil for our plastics (4% worldwide and 10% in the U.S.) and get it with the smallest risk to our environment. Eventually we will figure out something to replace plastic, and also find cleaner burning fuels to run our transportation needs. But it won't happen while Big Oil bribes their way into our national energy policy.
crsurf20 1 year ago 2
Oclone- China does not set the price for oil. It is OPEC and the international market. If we can ween ourselves off the oil teat by a little conservation and a lot of investment in wind and solar, less demand would push the market to lower their prices. After the spill in the Gulf, you still think drilling offshore for oil is the right answer?
crsurf20 1 year ago
Regarding your 1st comment, it's the 'little' environmental impact that worries Floridians, one spill can destroy an entire ecosystem and ruin a tourist and fishing industry in that part of the state. And in your 2nd comment, you didn't acknowledge that the refineries we have now are NOT at full capacity and could refine more, but the oil companies know they can make more profit going overseas (or Venezuela or Mexico) to refine it. And NO ONE wants a polluting refinery in their U.S. backyard.
crsurf20 1 year ago
SERPO - We are dependent on cheap oil, and it just happens to be cheaper to produce it in foreign oil because there is more of it and it comes from underground vs. underwater. Most oil including the millions of gallons that we EXPORT, goes overseas to refineries and is sold back to us at a market price. The 'few days' worth of oil off FL's coast would not change this price in 30 years of drilling. If we drilled, it only profits Chevron, Exxon, and BP who invest it in OPEC nations and China.
crsurf20 1 year ago
Yea, this was a quick edit job on less than professional equipment on no budget. The 'going down the line' section is in doubletime so that didn't help either.
crsurf20 2 years ago