There is a bill in Congress to open up drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. This has been opposed in Virginia and North Carolina, but it is still alive and well in South Carolina. This is a slap in the face to Myrtle Beach. As usual, our leaders and politicians in Washington and Columbia do not seem to care what happens here on the Grand Strand. They might care, however, if our tourist and real estate economy goes through an oil spill. Can you imagine what would happen if oil washes up on our beautiful beaches? The proponents of drilling will surely say that it can’t happen.

Those who stood to gain from oil and gas exploration were certainly saying nothing bad could happen also when a blowout from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico poured 30,000 barrels of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico for 10 months. This was in 1979, but the ocean floor and coast in the gulf are still spoiled to this day.

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