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Access to federal waters may be the real goal of legislative proponents

The Texas oil men behind the proposal to drill off Florida's Gulf Coast beaches are neither stupid nor dreamy-eyed optimists. So the information in a draft report presented Monday to a Florida House committee surely came as no surprise.
The report, by a commission the Legislature created five years ago to study Florida's long-term future, largely shoots down many of the drilling proponents' READ MORE

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