What can be done with hundreds of miles of oilfront hotel rooms

[rzemanfl]

and condos? What replaces seafood in seafood restaurants? What does the country do with millions of additional unemployed people in the Southeast? Can the rest of the country absorb the unused boats, jet-skis, fishing tackle, sunblock, swimsuits and such? How fucked up is it that I am asking these questions?

I can't even get my head around this slow-motion disaster anymore.

On the upside, you can fish without a license in Florida the next two weekends. Pretty soon I expect they will remove all size and possession limits....

[lunatica]

1. It's really depressing isn't it?

When you start thinking of the ramifications of this gusher it just gets worse and worse all around. The hotels will go bankrupt and each and every employee will be without a job. Restaurants will lose so much business and not be able to cook fish that they'll close and all the employees will lose jobs. All those boats taking people out to fish will stay docked. The real estate business will die even without the fallout of oily hurricanes.

It's a very depressing future. Not might be. Is.

[lib2DaBone]

6. The same people who sent our jobs to China...

.. are now back to devastate our fishing and tourist industry.

American taxpayers now getting their final BOHICA (bend over here it comes again).

One of these days.. people will tire of this treatment.

[rzemanfl]

9. Yes it is. I don't plan to stay in Florida when it gets bad. I can

retire up North and just walk away from the house, which will be worthless. I worry about the state's ability to pay my pension though.

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[msongs]

7. of course u mean by their hands like a trapeze act, not in THAT other way, right? nt

[JBoy]

3. Hotels will start touting how FAR they are from the beach.

[kestrel91316]

4. Housing for the newly jobless and homeless former fishermen??

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Duh - Offices for oil company executives

As soon as the Gulf is ruined, they will move in and start drilling for oil. That's the only thing the Gulf will be good for.

[Urban Prairie]

8. The hotels could be used to host monthly CPAC conventions

Limbaugh said the crude/gas from the spill/leak was a "natural" thing after all, and the RWers could help him prove it by eating only Gulf-caught seafood.

[depakid]

10. The clean up workers have to stay somewhere.

[Kablooie]

11. I wonder if coastal cities will be able to remain if there are toxic fumes.

[Scuba]

12. Well, the Republicans are going to have their next convention in Tampa...

... hope they're not wading in oil.