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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Only marginally clever
	Date:	5/1/2010 4:27:30 PM

What makes this scenario totally different than the Gulf is everyone who buys beachfront property knows there is oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and that the potential exists for a release. Just like they know there are hurricanes. For them to claim NIMBY status post-acquisition is fundamentally wrong. Just like someone who buys a home close to an airport and then complains about the noise or a house on a golf course and then complains about errant golf balls.

Regardless, if for some miraculous reason they found oil in the middle of Lake Martin and they could get it permitted I would not object. I do grant that many would as evidenced by the objection to new development on the lake. Everyone thinks building should have ended right after their house was built, not a moment earlier nor a moment later. I am just not one of those people.

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from the AP news service 8/12/15 - copperline - 5/1/2010 9:55:26 AM

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Silly idea - MartiniMan - 5/1/2010 11:47:02 AM

Clever Scenario - Yankee06 - 5/1/2010 1:33:28 PM

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Only marginally clever - GoneFishin - 5/1/2010 8:20:58 PM

Only marginally clever - MartiniMan - 5/2/2010 8:19:53 AM

from the AP news service 8/12/15 - copperline - 5/2/2010 7:09:12 PM

from the AP news service 8/12/15 - MartiniMan - 5/2/2010 9:17:19 PM

from the AP news service 8/12/15 - Barneget - 5/2/2010 10:22:50 PM

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