Those riggs make have made the BEST fish habitat and the fishing is unblievable. By the way Eileen the sun sets in the WEST not the south so you would be watching your sunset over land. Nice try.

How did Ms. Embree get from Kirkwood to the Gulf Coast? Do you think she consumed any fossil fuels? If she is so concerned about our need for more oil, why didn’t she stay home and do her part to conserve?

We have thousands of miles of shorelines and many beaches in Missouri. Just try out the beach below the Arch sometime. You won’t burn near as much fuel traveling there.

Ms. Embree,

Allow me to make a correction: the oil conglomerates are not interested in drilling offshore for oil. They are drilling for profits. Perhaps we could find a young artist who could paint in an oil platform into each of the famous seascapes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, updating them for contemporary American tastes.

A Centrist,

As most Americans live in the northern hemisphere, the sun actually sets in the southwest. Also, you failed to mention that the fish around those riggs (sic) are easier to process in that they are already packed in oil (sic, sic, sic!).

Eileen:

Your Al Bore-like junk science conspiratorial claptrap is mind-numbing.

Airhead, what in the world are you talking about?? Ms. Embree is discussing the natural beauty of the sea, and you call this junk science claptrap?? She never mentioned global warming or CO2 emissions. She never referenced the Endangered Species Act or DDT. She didn’t mention the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge or or even dying coral reefs. She simply is reminiscing about peaceful seashore vacations, and her concerns deserve our respect.

No, Airball, A.Patriot and Centrist. What is truly mind numbing is the vitriolic nature of your knee-jerk, troll like, ignorance displayed on these blogs which, I must say, is getting extremely boring. Most of you keep the discourse of ideas and opinion to a gutter level and most of us who try to get any insight at all from these blogs are unfortunate that we have to wade through the crap you all post here.

Sorry, A Centrist not involved in this one.

I’m amazed at your eyesight, Eileen, you’ll be able to see fifty miles offshore?? You should be a pilot!