Bill Nelson has gone too far with oil, gas production rhetoric -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com: "Sen. Bill Nelson has gone too far this time with his off-the-wall rhetoric about offshore oil and gas drilling. Recently in Tallahassee, he said pursuing energy independence by allowing drilling off the Florida coast would convert our world-class beaches into 'industrial waste zones.'
How ridiculous and inflammatory. Oil and gas production has been occurring safely for decades in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, and I don't think you can call Gulf Shores, Ala., or any of the other beaches between there and Padre Island, Texas, 'industrial waste zones.'"