Thursday, April 29, 2010
Oil doesn't come cheap.
Well, the drill baby drill folks such as Sarah Palin have made a point. There's oil out there. Just offshore. Beneath the sea. And now very much in the Gulf of Mexico. By latest measurement, an oil slick as big as the state of West Virginia. And at the rate it's flowing, maybe soon as big as the entire Gulf of Mexico. Something like 5,000 barrels of oil pouring into the sea daily. Because of an accident on an oil rig. Took 11 lives, too. And the environmental damage keeps mounting. But hey, that's the price one has to pay. Oil doesn't come cheap. --Jim Broede
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I'm having a difficult time trying to determine who's public enemy #1. It's a toss up betwen Global BP and Wall Street. They are both capitalist swine. One would wreck the economy. The other would destroy the environment. Oh, I suppose on most days I'd be inclined to put saving the environment over the economy. But it'd be nice to save both, wouldn't it? --Jim
What in the world, would anyone have against becoming less dependent on foreign oil, when we have abundant supplies here? 60% of our oil supply is imported. That is a big price to pay.
I'll tell you about the big price to pay, dear Anonymous. Look to the Gulf of Mexico. Oil slicks floating ashore. Catastrophe. Wildlife habitats ruined. Maybe for decades. Because the oil drillers don't know what they're doing. At the moment they are pouring 5,000 barrels of oil into the sea daily. And it'll take at least 3 months to turn off the flow. We Americans don't know how to drill for oil safely. We are inept. It's time to focus on clean energy. No more oil. That's the way to become less dependent. Not by drilling offshore. --Jim
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