Republican Fervor Ebbs for Offshore Drilling

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3. Not surprising. Only hard-cores are completely beyond responsibility

and rationality. Destructive effects of climate change and of unchained rapacious greed have become increasingly obvious even to people still voting if not all caring to identify Republican any more.

Add in, of course, that coastal properties tend to be owned by their states' wealthier people, who are affected by rising seas and now threatened with oil platforms. Self interest's a good thing when it aligns with responsibility to all.