1) The big name "Drillers" from Palin to Steele haven't said a word. Palin did however take time to point out that she too was part of an oil spill from the Exxon, and so she sympathizes with the families of the oil rig. Thanks Sarah! now how about some action. Don't just say "I went through that too" and then continue to advocate policies with disastrous consequences (isn't the definition of insanity "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time... I knew she was insane). How about you actually advocate policies that don't cost billions in clean up costs and even more in irreversible natural loses.
2) Everyone is up in arms about the impending environmental disaster ... except 83% of fox news online viewers who when asked whether this disaster should result in a scaling back of oil drilling in the gulf responded "No, off shore drilling is necessary to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Drill, Baby, Drill." It seems impossible to argue with that logic ... unless you have an ounce of basic intelligence. First of all, drilling off the coast will only fractionally decrease our dependence on foreign oil reserves. In fact, if we were able to immediately draw out all of the oil off the coast it would last about 5 years. Thats not reality. Reality is that working at full capacity, the best we could hope for is that we would meet less than 1% of world demand. Since we only just opened up the coastal oil fields, and rigs cost $2 Billion and ten years to build, you do the math. even our kids wont see our oil production at full capacity.
Now the question is, are we really willing to sacrifice our environment for a fraction of 1% of the market? apparently the answer to these selfish neo-con thugs is yes. And in 300 years when all the oil on earth runs out (assuming we survive that long) they can look forward to cleaning up the giant mess they made. but if they have their way we wont survive that long. we'll barely make it to 2050, at which time we wont have much of a planet left. Thanks neo-cons.
3) where is the righteous indignation about "oil rig safety" that accompanied the disaster in the West Virginia Mine collapse? Everyone is more interested in making this about Obama's energy policy (Fox News, HuffPo). So, coal mine collapses, it's a labor issue, but if an oil rig explodes it's an issue of energy policy? And where is the coverage of the 11 people who died on the oil rig? I couldn't turn on the TV a week ago without hearing about the miners who died in WV, but I actually had to dig to find any mention of the oil rig crew.
Lesson learned? 1) GOP leaders are hypocrites. 2) Fox news viewers are selfish and more interested in driving their cars than perpetuating our planet past 2050. 3) The media grabs onto the first story line that causes controversy and pushes it till it's dead (or till all the people are dead).
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