Dixie - In Memoriam
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I realize this is going to raise some eyebrows and generate a flurry of pinhead response, but it's something that needs to be said, so here goes...
The blown oil well in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew 40k barrels of oil per day into the Gulf, with no indication of when they may get it stopped. The problem is, the leak is a mile down under the ocean, where it's impossible to reach through conventional methods.
Now, this is a disaster that is unprecedented in terms of environmental and economic damage, and it will take decades for the Gulf Coast to recover. Priceless wetlands are sure to be lost, birds and marine life will die and suffer for years because of this. And the Liberal mush-brains will writhe and moan about the need for more regulations and restrictions on the oil industry... we can count on that!
But it's important to remember the reason this catastrophe is so impossible to deal with. The rig was located some 50 miles offshore, in water a mile deep. Why do we have oil rigs 50 miles out into the ocean? Well, because, when people go visit the lovely beaches of Mississippi and Louisiana, they certainly don't want to see those eyesore rigs on the horizon! Environmentalists insisted that if we drill in the Gulf, it has to be far enough out that no one can visually see them from the coast. It is because we allowed this regulated restriction, that we have an impossible problem on our hands now.
If the rig explosion happened on dry land, it could have been capped almost immediately, with very minimal ecological damage. If the rig had been located on the northern slope of Alaska, it could have been capped by the end of the day, and again, with very little (if any) ecological damage. Even in the worst case scenario, in Alaska, the damage would have been to a few seals and otters, not the entire economic livelihood of thousands of fishermen and shrimpers, and not to our pristine wetlands in the bayou. We also look to the fact that other forms of energy production have been hindered by these same environmentalists. We haven't built a nuclear power plant in 30 years.
So when we are all running around pointing the fingers of blame at BP, Big Oil, or even the Federal Government for failing to have a plan to deal with this, we must remember that at least a portion of the blame goes to the environmentalists, who refuse to allow much safer drilling elsewhere. If not for their activism, we probably wouldn't ever have an oil rig 50 miles out at sea in the Gulf of Mexico in the first place.
The blown oil well in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew 40k barrels of oil per day into the Gulf, with no indication of when they may get it stopped. The problem is, the leak is a mile down under the ocean, where it's impossible to reach through conventional methods.
Now, this is a disaster that is unprecedented in terms of environmental and economic damage, and it will take decades for the Gulf Coast to recover. Priceless wetlands are sure to be lost, birds and marine life will die and suffer for years because of this. And the Liberal mush-brains will writhe and moan about the need for more regulations and restrictions on the oil industry... we can count on that!
But it's important to remember the reason this catastrophe is so impossible to deal with. The rig was located some 50 miles offshore, in water a mile deep. Why do we have oil rigs 50 miles out into the ocean? Well, because, when people go visit the lovely beaches of Mississippi and Louisiana, they certainly don't want to see those eyesore rigs on the horizon! Environmentalists insisted that if we drill in the Gulf, it has to be far enough out that no one can visually see them from the coast. It is because we allowed this regulated restriction, that we have an impossible problem on our hands now.
If the rig explosion happened on dry land, it could have been capped almost immediately, with very minimal ecological damage. If the rig had been located on the northern slope of Alaska, it could have been capped by the end of the day, and again, with very little (if any) ecological damage. Even in the worst case scenario, in Alaska, the damage would have been to a few seals and otters, not the entire economic livelihood of thousands of fishermen and shrimpers, and not to our pristine wetlands in the bayou. We also look to the fact that other forms of energy production have been hindered by these same environmentalists. We haven't built a nuclear power plant in 30 years.
So when we are all running around pointing the fingers of blame at BP, Big Oil, or even the Federal Government for failing to have a plan to deal with this, we must remember that at least a portion of the blame goes to the environmentalists, who refuse to allow much safer drilling elsewhere. If not for their activism, we probably wouldn't ever have an oil rig 50 miles out at sea in the Gulf of Mexico in the first place.
