Editorial Compilation April 24th, 2009  

It’s pretty unanimous that efforts to open up Florida’s coastline and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil drilling is  opposed by every major newspaper in Florida.  Read the comments here from last year, when the idea was floated while there were upwards of 300 oil lobbyists in Tallahassee.   Thank goodness the Florida Senate refused to take up the issue after it passed in the House.  We must also be vigilant as to what happens at the federal level via the Minerals Managements Service of the Department of the Interior.