Support for seismic testing

March 10, 2015

Responding to Ron Littlepage’s column “Thanks to Obama, our coast is in danger,” Vets4Energy, a national organization of military veterans, believes the nation is more secure if we are less dependent on foreign oil.

To become energy independent, we have to develop more of our own energy resources.

Renewable energy sources also need to be developed, but they can’t yet replace fossil fuels in powering our country. A total of 65 percent of the nation’s energy comes from fossil fuels.

Florida consumes 28 million gallons of gas each day, third most in the country.

Seismic testing off the Atlantic Coast could have impacts on marine life, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, which states that with required mitigation measures, “the most likely impacts would be short-term behavior responses; no deaths or life-threatening injuries would be expected.”

This is in significant contrast with Littlepage’s information.

Maj. Gen. William Hodgkins USAF (Ret.), Florida co-chair, Vets4Energy.

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