re: #112 Killgore Trout

That was short and boring.

Well, it wasn’t boring to me.

He still doesn’t seem to understand the full economic impact of his moratorium, or he’s ignoring the information he’s been given.

I’m all for additional safety requirements, new regs, revamping MMS, etc.

But it is not necessary to shut down Gulf operations for six months.

It won’t be six months. It will be years before operations are back up and running to any degree.

It isn’t just the rig workers affected. It’s all the businesses that support the oil industry, and their employees.

This speech was a “kiss Louisiana goodbye” speech. And I’m not sure he even realizes it.

I understand the difficulty of the decisions he’s having to make. But there needs to be some balance.