A Floridians: Alendo-okonda schmourists… Bola, mwana, kubowola!

Ma dolphin ndi mapelican omwe amasambira kuchokera pamchenga woyera wa bafuta wa chisumbu cha Caladesi m’mphepete mwa nyanja chakumadzulo kwa Florida amathandiza kukopa alendo pafupifupi 80 miliyoni ndi $57 biliyoni ku “Sunlight State” chaka chilichonse.

Makilomita pafupifupi 50 kuchokera ku Gulf of Mexico, makampani opanga magetsi akuti mphotho yokulirapo ikudikirira kuchotsedwa pansi panyanja: mafuta ndi gasi wachilengedwe omwe atha kusiya US kuchoka ku kudalira kwake kotsika mtengo kuzinthu zochokera kumayiko omwe mwina sangakhale ochezeka kapena osakhazikika.

Pambuyo potsutsa kubowola m'mphepete mwa nyanja kwa kotala la zana ngati chiwopsezo pagombe lawo lopindulitsa, ambiri aku Floridians tsopano akukonda, zisankho zikuwonetsa. Mafuta a madola anayi a galoni afika m'thumba la ovota ndi maganizo awo, monga momwe boma la US likunenera kuti kubowola kunyanja kungakhale ndi zotsatira zosafunika pamtengo wa mafuta.

Pamalo opangira mafuta a Hess kumtunda pafupi ndi Caladesi, a Gerald Walker akuti anali kudana ndi kuchotsa mafuta ku Florida, mpaka mitengo itakwera. “Kubowola? Pa $3.64 galoni, ndimalipeza,” akutero wowerengera ndalama wazaka 60.

"Bora, mwana, kubowola!" ndi kulira kwa chipani cha Republican, ndipo woyembekezera kukhala pulezidenti wa Senator John McCain wa ku Arizona akuyamba kulimbana nawo, ngakhale m'chigawo cha m'mphepete mwa nyanjachi. Kuchulukirachulukira kwa a Floridians omwe ali naye limodzi atauzidwa kuti amalimbikitsa kubowola kuti achepetse mitengo, akutero Brad Coker wa Mason-Dixon Polling and Research Inc. Mason-Dixon's ndi amodzi mwa masankho angapo omwe achitika m'chilimwechi omwe adawonetsa osachepera 6. mu 10 Floridians tsopano amathandizira kubowola.

Chitetezo cha Dziko

Coker anati: “Yasanduka nkhani yokhudza chitetezo cha dziko chifukwa cha nkhondo za ku Middle East ndiponso kunyada kumene kunachitika ku Russia.

McCain, wazaka 72, anali ndi 7 peresenti patsogolo pa mdani wake wa Democratic, Senator Barack Obama, 47, wa ku Illinois, mu kafukufuku wa Florida wotulutsidwa Sept. 11 ndi Quinnipiac University Polling Institute ku Hamden, Connecticut.

Mu chisankho cha 2004, Purezidenti George W. Bush adagonjetsa Senator John Kerry wa Massachusetts ndi 5 peresenti ku Florida. Ovota ku Pinellas County, kwawo kwa Caladesi ndi pafupi ndi St. Petersburg, anagawanitsa 50-50 pakati pa amuna awiriwa.

US imawotcha migolo pafupifupi 21 miliyoni yamafuta patsiku. Pafupifupi 60 peresenti amatumizidwa kunja, makamaka kuchokera ku Africa, Persian Gulf ndi Latin America. Ena mwa ogulitsa amadana poyera; Venezuela idathamangitsa kazembe waku US sabata yatha. Makampani amafuta m'maiko ena, kuphatikiza Saudi Arabia ndi Nigeria, akhala akuchitiridwa nkhanza.

'Easy Solution'

McCain “akupereka lonjezo lakuti vuto la mphamvu za magetsi ndi vuto losavuta lomwe lili ndi yankho losavuta,” akutero Paul Roberts, wolemba buku lakuti “Mapeto a Mafuta.” "Lingaliro ndikuti tikuletsedwa kuchita zomwe tikuyenera kuchita ndi OPEC, omasuka, owongolera."

Atsogoleri amsonkhano wa demokalase, poyankha kukakamizidwa ndi anthu komanso drumbeat yaku Republican, akuganizira zabilu sabata ino zomwe zingatsegule madera okulirapo pobowola mafuta ndi gasi ngati gawo la mphamvu zambiri.

Lieutenant Governor wa Florida Jeff Kottkamp, ​​waku Republican, akuti atsogoleri a boma "akudziwa bwino lomwe kukongola kwa dziko lathu" ndipo sakhulupirira kuti kubowola kungawononge izi. "Ziyenera kukhala ukadaulo wotetezedwa kwambiri kuteteza magombe athu, ndipo ndikuganiza kuti ndizotheka," akutero.

Kum'maŵa kwa Gulf of Mexico n'kumene kuli gasi wochuluka kuposa mafuta osakanizidwa. David Mica, mkulu wa bungwe la Florida Petroleum Council, ananena kuti zitsime zomwe zinalipo zomwe zinalipo chifukwa cha kuletsa kukumba kubowola kuyambira chapakati pa zaka za m’ma 1980 zikhoza kugwiritsiridwa ntchito “m’zaka zosakwana ziŵiri mosasamala kanthu za chilengedwe” pogwiritsa ntchito luso lamakono. mgwirizano wamakampani amafuta.

Malipiro Osatsimikizika

M'madera akumphepete mwa nyanja ku Pinellas County, malingaliro oboola akadali okayikitsa. Pamene Congress idayamba kukambirana za nkhaniyi sabata yatha, Tourism Development Council yakomweko idalemba kalata yotsutsa. Mameya a madera, mahotela, malo odyera ndi asayansi apanyanja ati chiwopsezo cha kuwonongeka kwa magombe kapena kuwononga chilengedwe ndi chachikulu kwambiri kuti chisapezeke phindu.

“Dziko la United States lili ndi 3 peresenti ya nkhokwe za mafuta padziko lonse ndipo limagwiritsa ntchito 25 peresenti ya mafuta opangidwa padziko lonse,” akutero Bill Nelson, Senator wa ku Florida wa Democratic US. "Chotero nzeru zimakuuzani kuti sitingathe kuthetsa vutoli."

Lingaliro limeneli silinayimitse a McCain kuyang'ana kwambiri nkhawa za ovota pazachuma chomwe chikuwoneka kuti chikulepheretsa kupezeka kwamafuta. Nkhani yake ya Seputembala 4 ku Republican National Convention inachititsa phokoso lalikulu lachivomerezo pamene analonjeza “kuleka kutumiza $700 biliyoni pachaka kumaiko amene sakutikonda kwenikweni.” Anati US "ikumba zitsime zatsopano kumtunda, ndipo tizibowola tsopano."

Misika Yadziko Lonse

Ochirikiza kubowola kokulirapo “sali kulakwa kwenikweni kunena kuti tizibowola; kumatithandiza kudalira mafuta akunja ndipo kumatanthauza kuti ndalama zochepa zimachokera m’dzikoli,” anatero Phyllis Martin, katswiri wofufuza zinthu pa Dipatimenti ya Zamagetsi ku United States. "Koma akulakwitsa kunena kuti izi zidzakhudza kwambiri mitengo," zomwe zimakhazikitsidwa ndi misika yapadziko lonse.

Kupempha kwa McCain kuti abowole kwatsimikiziridwa ndi anthu ambiri omwe akufuna kudzavota ndipo kwakhudzanso ovota chifukwa chofuna kuvota - ngakhale kuti kafukufuku wa boma akusonyeza kuti ngakhale kubowola kwakukulu kungachepetse mtengo mwina ndi magawo awiri pa magawo awiri mwa magawo khumi pa zaka 18 pambuyo pake. kubowola kumayamba.

Ngakhale patakhala chifuniro cha ndale, sizingatheke nthawi yomweyo. "Pali malingaliro olakwika kuti tili ndi mafuta ndi gasi onsewa m'mphepete mwa nyanja yathu, ndipo makampani amafuta akudikirira pamzere kuti athamangire ikatsegulidwa," akutero Martin. “Zimenezo si zoona. Pafupifupi makina onse opangira mafuta akubowola kale. "

Kubwerera ku Caladesi Island, Darren Wilder, 43, wogwira ntchito m'mphepete mwa nyanja omwe amateteza mphepo yamkuntho yomwe inabweretsedwa ndi mphepo yamkuntho Ike, akuti palibe amene akufuna kuwona zida zamafuta m'chizimezime kapena kutaya zomwe zingawononge starfish ndi heron zomwe zimakhala m'mphepete mwa nyanja.

Komabe, chifukwa chodalira mafuta kukhala kofunika kwa zaka zambiri, “ndikuganiza kuti ubwino wobowola ukhoza kuposa woipa,” iye akutero.