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Where Would Jesus Drill?
My thanks to Think Progress for this story:
The other day, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told us that we don't need Nancy Pelosi to save the planet. Jesus has it covered. Here's what she said:
"[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she’s just trying to save the planet. ... We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet — we didn’t need Nancy Pelosi to do that."
It gets better.
Yesterday on CNN, Rep.
Bachmann gushed about how the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is "the
most perfect place on the planet to drill."
What else did Rep. Bachmann have to say?
* The Arctic Refuge is the perfect place to drill because "it is
permanently frozen in darkness three months of the year under ice and
snow for nine months of the year."
Yes. Aside from the frozen darkness and ice and snow, it does sound perfect!
* "[T]his area was specifically set aside for drilling by President Jimmy Carter for drilling."
Except that . . . . . . it wasn't.
President Carter said the law he signed actually blocked "any oil company drilling until Congress votes otherwise. . . The simple fact is, drilling is inherently incompatible with wilderness."
* Bachmann also called past and current drilling on Alaska's North
Slope a "31-year demonstration project of responsible drilling."
Except that . . . . . . it's not.
There's a long trail of oil spills and accidents on the North Slope, including BP's 200,000 gallon spill that went undetected for five days just two years ago.
Of course, Rep. Bachmann might believe that her Lord wants us to
bulldoze new roads into, erect drilling rigs and platforms on, and pump
the oil out of His creation so we can drive around in our cars and warm
up His planet. But does she really believe He'd approve of her
fast-and-loose approach to the truth?
Send Michele Bachmann a message. Click here if you want Congress to vote on clean energy first.
Comments (1)
Excellent post!
It's maddening that people still want to drill deeper and go farther afield to find, what is, sadly a finite resource. They keep talking about ANWR in the context of being necessary to "break the grip of foreign oil", but nothing about the bigger problem, break the grip of oil. period.
While 80% of the oil we use every day is imported, 85% is refined into gasoline, diesel, aviation and marine fuel. It seems to me that if we were to convert over to hydrogen for cars and trucks, possibly airplanes (Virgin Air is tesing jet fuel made from biomass), we could pretty much eliminate the need to import oil. And we'd be using the most abundant element in the universe.
August 15, 2008 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
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