SENATOR BILL NELSON (D-FL) WANTS YOU TO HAVE EXPENSIVE GAS PRICES–THE SAME DEMOCRAT MINDSET THAT EARTH ENERGY IS BAD BAD BAD FOR YOU CONSIDER THE PRICE OF GAS DROPPING DUE TO PRIVATE BUSINESS RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION TO SEEK OUT NEW ENERGY AND IN RETURN THEY PROFIT AND GREATER RETURN YET TO YOU THE CONSUMER GET TO KEEP MORE OF YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY TO SPEND ON IMPORTANT MATTERS INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR THE HIGH PRICE OF GAS AND HIGH TAXES ON GAS–BUT THE SENATOR OF FLORIDA DOES NOT WANT THIS AND WOULD RATHER CURTAIL THE ENGINE OF ENERGY JOB CREATION THAT HAS FUELED THE ONLY GROWTH INDUSTRY SINCE ZERO GROWTH HAS COME FROM THE PRESENT DEMOCRAT POTUS THAT BILL NELSON MODELS HIMSELF AGAINST–THE SENATOR WANTS TO PREVENT THE NATURAL EARTH EXPLORATION 75 MILES OFF ANY COAST OF THE GULF

You may have read recently that the oil industry is once again looking to drill off Florida’s Gulf Coast. In fact, earlier this month a group of senators from Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi filed legislation to lift the current drilling ban and allow oil rigs to move as close as 50 miles off Florida.
We all saw what happened when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded just 49 miles off Louisiana’s coast five years ago.
At some point, folks need to ignore Big Oil's greed and simply do what’s right. In response to this latest threat, I filed legislation last week to not only keep the current drilling ban I passed in 2006, but to extend it for another five years – from 2022 until 2027.
Please take a minute to see what the Sarasota Herald-Tribune editorial board had to say about the issue:

Editorial: Keep oil off our coast
By Editorial Board
Published: May 27, 2015
As an Associated Press article in Tuesday's Herald-Tribune reported, tourism on the northern Gulf Coast is beginning to recover -- five years after the BP oil spill.
It makes you wonder: How would Florida cope with a five-year drought in tourism?
And the answer is: It would be a disaster, in and of itself. Tourism is a $70 billion industry in Florida. More than a million Floridians -- one of every 9 workers -- have jobs tied to the tourism industry, according to the state Department of Economic Opportunity.
The threat of a major oil spill to this state should concern all Florida residents and their elected officials, because some U.S. senators are ready to take that risk.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., has introduced a bill that would repeal a federal moratorium on oil drilling within 125 miles of Florida's Gulf Coast; the no-drilling zone extends out 235 miles at some points.
Cassidy's bill would allow oil rigs just 50 miles off Florida's coast. Several Republican senators from Gulf Coast states -- Louisiana's other senator, David Vitter, two senators from Mississippi and one from Texas -- co-filed the bill.
'Florida is under siege'
Cassidy said drilling closer to Florida could produce an estimated million barrels of oil per day, provide jobs and boost the region's economy.
Unless, of course, there's yet another oil disaster -- one just 50 miles from Florida's west coast. The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in 2010, causing the BP spill, was 49 miles off Louisiana's coast.
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, is outraged -- as he should be. He wrote the 2006 legislation that established the no-drilling zone, which is to remain in place until 2022.
"Florida is under siege," Nelson said last week. "At some point, folks need to ignore Big Oil's greed and simply do what's right."
Besides threatening Florida's tourism industry, Nelson said, oil drilling poses a serious risk to Florida's delicate environment and to U.S. military training areas in the eastern Gulf.
In response to Cassidy's bill, Nelson filed legislation last week that would extend the current moratorium for five years, to 2027.

http://www.billnelson.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/nelson-florida-under-siege