Florida offshore oil drilling? Reader weight

Yes, for excavation

It’s time to ban offshore drilling forever near Florida | February 13th row

Most Florida voters voted for President Donald Trump. Now they should support his drilling efforts. Trump cannot approve of the Alaska oil drilling ban without approving the removal of the Gulf of Mexico drilling ban. Non-backard attitudes are not fair for the industry or the parties. Drill Baby Drill! That’s what you voted for, so let it happen.

Craig Lewis, Tampa

Oil drilling is prohibited from Florida

It’s time to ban offshore drilling forever near Florida | February 13th row

Good job Floridian. You voted for a president who doesn’t care about Florida’s coastline or economic well-being. When you go to the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic, you feel better at reaching for this event when the ball lands and multiple businesses are closed.

Chuck Fitch, Gulfport

Liberal hypocrisy

It’s time to ban offshore drilling forever near Florida | February 13th row

In a recent guest column for the Tampa Bay Times, US Congressman Kathy Caster and former local chamber CEO Robin Miller have been saying their worst about the idea of ​​drilling oil at a safe distance from Florida coast. I wrote down my confusion. Thinly veiled Trump Roast was not supported by facts or consistent debate – the usual waving hysteria that has come to expect from political parties dealing with energy policies that literally fuel the economy. Just insufficient research like junior high school science projects.

In the latest anti-drill crusades, Casters and Miller were unable to name a single project that poses a real threat to the Florida coastline. It’s not just one. It’s as if they’re more interested in earning political points than providing actual evidence. The logic seems to be: “Because drilling is bad… well, just!”

Don’t worry about the latest US drilling technology making offshore operations safer than ever. No, let’s continue to import oil into giant tankers from the Middle East, as unusual as environmental regulations allow their party to be in a hellish scene.

Perhaps the writers believe that the planet is safer when tankers cross the oceans, burn fuel and risk spills, so we avoid using our resources. can. It’s blatantly ironic.

Larry. D. Clifton, Brooksville

Ah, Canada!

Florida relies on Canadian visitors. Will Trump’s trade war keep them apart? |Line, February 9th

My wife and I are Canadians who have owned a Winter House in Florida for 31 years. For the past 23 years, we have been wintering in the sun for five months each year. We have made many friends in our communities both in Canada and the US.

We are extremely disappointed with your leadership desire to engage in a trade war. The rhetoric that comes out of Washington about Canadians and Canadians is offensive and certainly not appropriate or necessary if we want to continue our relationship. It is insult to suggest that any country can annex another sovereign country on a whim.

We are truly disappointed by the complete lack of anger from our American friends and neighbors, the Florida leadership, and the complete anger from the Republican Party itself.

Should we assume that what is said and done about Canadians is supported by the majority of Americans? We don’t want to reach that conclusion, so we will wait patiently and monitor any indication that our ongoing friendship between the two countries will be appreciated.

Nancy and Larry Kayle, Week Wachee

I-4 expansion

Tampa’s most narrated interchange looks more complicated | January 29th

The expansion of Interstate 4 could be welcomed by many commuters, but it is not a long-term fix for crowds. Many studies have shown that the expansion of busy roads ultimately leads to increased traffic. What actually helps with the problem of massive crowding? Functional mass transport. We build trains rather than lanes.

Kate Munkitrick, St. Petersburg

Not in prejudice

Vance says that the staff at the Doji who resigned after reporting racist posts should be brought back | February 7th

It’s difficult to track concerns about what’s going on in Washington. Still, one clear problem is that as a nation, we are unacceptably to racist, misogynistic, and other antisocial behaviour. Such actions have become increasingly common among people involved in government. It has recently been revealed that members of Elon Musk’s Doge team have created biased internet posts, such as “normalizing Indian Hate.” He resigned but was rehired when the vice president implied that he was just a “child” to be forgiven.

I am a Christian and I strongly believe in forgiveness, but that is not the same as tolerance. If a person is “adult” enough to root important government services, we simply forgive and cannot forget their “youthful” mistakes. How can we know if they truly repented and reformed? How can we blindly manage government sectors that support minorities, especially?

The broader problem is that the media is giving too many latitudes to prejudice and other deplorable people. Newspapers do not call prejudice – it is always a “claim.” This made public figures more openly hated. Kanye West recently declared that Elon Musk’s X. Musk herself “I am a Nazi.” The media is also giving cover-up to their weak logic for hiring politicians and racists like Vice President JD Vance. With national media failing at the moment, we hope that local papers like the Tampa Bay Times can boldly challenge bias and other antisocial behaviour.

Peter Youngblood, St. Petersburg

Go to Goge

Democrats and mainstream media have been expended by Elon Musk and the newly formed government ministry of efficiency, with millions of government spending, like programs for sexual change and Sesame Street in other countries. They complain that they are out of control in their discovery. They complain about Doge and Musk, but I still have one of many liberal cable TV hosts or websites that raise many strange programs that the US is sending money to taxpayer dollars. I haven’t heard of it yet. Keep it, Democrats, and 2026 and 2028 are the same.

Scott Simmer, Lake Land