Our-shore Drilling
I think Copeland messed up a little bit here. In today’s News Journal, he said he “would not take off the table” the idea of allowing an oil platform to be built off the Delaware coastline. Matt Denn pounces:
“I support limited oil drilling as part of a balanced national energy policy-but oil drilling off the coast of Delaware? We should not only take the idea off the table, we should throw it out of the house and lock the doors.
“Between his opposition to the Bluewater Wind project and his receptiveness to oil drilling off our beaches, Senator Copeland and I could not be further apart on the issues of renewable energy and the environment in Delaware. He has repeatedly sided with the power companies, at the expense of clean, affordable, renewable energy. Rather than doing the oil companies’ bidding and allowing them to drill everywhere, including off our coast, drilling should be limited to those areas that have already been identified.”
Comment by potnetsgal on 7 August 2008 at 2:23 pm:
I’m convinced that this race will not even be close. Matt is no shrinking violet, and won’t allow Copeland to define him.
Comment by Gflat dim on 7 August 2008 at 2:31 pm:
Join the movement to keep Copeland under 10%.
Comment by nemski on 7 August 2008 at 2:33 pm:
I hear Matt likes them tire gauges too.
Comment by Jason330 on 7 August 2008 at 3:24 pm:
more dems like Denn please.
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 3:41 pm:
Nice to see Matt Denn has no problem filling up his gas tank and that he’s okay with his constituents paying more for gas like they pay more for car insurance, health insurance, property insurance….
I think I see a trend.
Comment by pandora on 7 August 2008 at 3:44 pm:
Hmmm… What are they driving, Dave? I may be heartless, but I’m having trouble feeling too sorry for those honkin’ big SUV drivers. It’s not like the writing wasn’t on the wall.
Comment by anon on 7 August 2008 at 4:24 pm:
When will we see Charlie Copeland standing on the boardwalk at Rehoboth and explaining his vision of oil rigs off the Delaware coast?
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 4:34 pm:
He didn’t say he had a vision of oil rigs. He just refuses to rule anything out that might help people. He is in touch with the pain of Delaware families who are hurting paying $4+ for gas right now. His opponent is clearly out of touch on the issue.
Comment by TRUTH TELLER on 7 August 2008 at 4:39 pm:
No off shore drilling until the oil company’s drill on the 64million acres they already have under lease 40 million of which are already off shore.
As McShame has already shown us that repeating a phrase like “THE SURGE HAS WORKED” or “DRILL OFF SHORE” has gotten the public attention the Dem’s should pound the above statement home until it sinks into the public mind. let ask Big oil why they haven’t drilled there yet.
Comment by Tom S on 7 August 2008 at 5:09 pm:
Denn is a snake in the grass
Where was this shared? Was it just in an e-mail or on his blog? I don’t see it up on his sight.
Comment by Delaware's Brilliantest Blogger on 7 August 2008 at 5:22 pm:
dave is back baby.
Dave? how else are they going to get the oil off the coast? Oh wait, Charlie is a DuPont, he has magical powers
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 6:39 pm:
I’m sorry, DV. I only respond to hot people.
Comment by Jason330 on 7 August 2008 at 6:44 pm:
tom-
Press release. Copeland should look into that modern innovation.
Dave-
Copeland wants to splooge crude all over Rehoboth and you know it.
Comment by Joe M on 7 August 2008 at 6:46 pm:
“Copeland wants to splooge crude all over Rehoboth and you know it.”
Well, at least he’s keeping one aspect of DuPont alive.
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 6:47 pm:
Splooge crude?
I can picture you, right now, looking at that statement with immense pride.
Comment by Jason330 on 7 August 2008 at 6:48 pm:
okay that is probably overstating it, but you know full well that he worked with mcdowell to try to kill the wind power deal .
Denn’s. Observation that he and Copeland could not be farther apart on renewable energy is spot on.
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 7:07 pm:
Your take on what happened with BWW is about as accurate as John Carney’s take on what happened.
Comment by Jason330 on 7 August 2008 at 7:10 pm:
Luckily McDowell and Copeland failed. At least we can agree on that.
Comment by Mike Matthews on 7 August 2008 at 7:24 pm:
So Republicans saved the day on BWW like they always do, huh, Dave? I guess we can expect that coming from…a REPUBLICAN!
Comment by liz allen on 7 August 2008 at 7:28 pm:
If drilling offshore comes to Delaware,lets put the “drilling equipment” right in front of McCastles beach house! Or better still put a nuclear power plant along side Castlegate! Mike can figure out what to do with the “waste”.
Lets see how fast he can say “not in my backyard”.
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 7:48 pm:
“So Republicans saved the day on BWW like they always do, huh, Dave? I guess we can expect that coming from…a REPUBLICAN!”
No, it wasn’t Republicans, but it wasn’t John Carney, either. It was bloggers and activists and 6,000 comments from ordinary people creating something that wasn’t going to go away.
When DeLuca realized that, he put the pieces together to make it look like Carney had something to do with it. Smart, really, because Markell & Lee could never prove it really wasn’t Carney.
I can’t be the only one who sees that, can I?
Comment by Mike Matthews on 7 August 2008 at 7:53 pm:
I agree with you it wasn’t Carney, but it certainly wasn’t the party’s golden boy Copeland.
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 7:55 pm:
Who’s claiming it was Copeland?
Comment by Delaware's Brilliantest Blogger on 7 August 2008 at 8:00 pm:
I’m not sure who is more amusing the Troll Mike W. or the Dave. One is smug and arrogant the other is just young and niave
Comment by Mike Matthews on 7 August 2008 at 8:03 pm:
Right, I should have rephrased the comment. Copeland didn’t claim he had anything to do with the final deal, but he certainly was a party to the obstructionist Harris McDowell and the rest of the Delmarva Gang.
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 8:05 pm:
“I’m not sure who is more amusing the Troll Mike W. or the Dave. One is smug and arrogant the other is just young and niave”
I’m sorry. Who let the not hot guy in?
Mike — Some would say that those who were hardest on BWW made the deal better in the end.
Comment by Mike Matthews on 7 August 2008 at 8:09 pm:
Ahh…there’s the spin. I’ve got to give it to you, Burris. You’re damn good.
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 8:16 pm:
Don’t mess with me, you overgrown baby, or I’m calling Sage…
Comment by Delaware's Brilliantest Blogger on 7 August 2008 at 8:25 pm:
yes, he’s a damn good liar that almost believes the shit that comes out of his mouth. but in the end his party nationally and locally is pathetic, yet he still is as big a part of it as he ever was and has done nothing to make it better.
just another sheep
Comment by FSP on 7 August 2008 at 8:27 pm:
I know you’re trying, DV, but you’re not going to get a rise out of me. You’ve been dethroned and you carry less weight around here.
I don’t play AA ball. Where’s Pandora, LG, or any of the other major leaguers?
Comment by Delaware's Brilliantest Blogger on 7 August 2008 at 8:36 pm:
obviously you do, your back to your 2nd rate blog full (or should I say fool) of nut jobs (rsmitty aside)…
Comment by Mike Matthews on 7 August 2008 at 8:37 pm:
Nah, now that Dave is back, the nutjob-to-sane-person ratio is only 2:1.
Comment by mike w. on 7 August 2008 at 9:16 pm:
“yes, he’s a damn good liar that almost believes the shit that comes out of his mouth.”
Perfect description of Obama DTB.
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