High oil prices got you down?! Drill off the California coast!
I'm wondering when that idea will be floated. Here's what it will probably sound like:
We need the oil. High oil prices are bad for the economy. Environmental nuts are making you, Mr. Average consumer, pay too much to protect their elite multi-million dollar views. They want us out of Iraq? Well then they should allow us to drill off the coast of California. People in Texas and Oklahoma look at the oil rigs and they don't complain, they know it is necessary and part of the American way. Joe 12 pack in Texas can't say "Boo hoo, remove the oil rig in my view, or I'll sue." Why should some liberal Hollywood elites get perfect views? What is more important, our ability to get to work and drive our kids to school or their "right" to view the ocean?
My Friends, in the bible God gave us dominion over the earth. To quote Genesis 1:26, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” If you believe in some secular environmentalist view and not the bible, you will oppose drilling off the coast of California. But most people believe that it is better to block Barbra Streisand's Malibu, Calif., view of the ocean than to deny the bible. Look out for environmental activist judges to embrace Alec Baldwin and Luna Moonchild Butterfly and not God.Okay, once there was a spill outside the liberal elite conclave of Santa Barbara. That was 35 years ago! The technology has advanced! The protections will be massive so it won't happen again. If these people were patriots they would demand that the government drill here! Can you imagine someone in the heartland saying, "My view and a few seagulls are more important than the country's energy needs?"
What's the big deal? People can still go to the beach after the oil rigs go up.
http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/feature/2005/8795.html
Copyright 2005 UC Regents / Davidson Library
Photographed from the air Jan. 29, 1969, oil bubbles to the ocean's surface from cracks in the sea floor around Platform A. Following the rig's blowout, upward of three million barrels of oil leaked uncontrollably for 10 days, resulting in a slick that covered 800 square miles
(Frankly sometimes I scare myself when I think of these things. Good thing only 14 people read my blog. If Karl Rove and the rightwing nut ball hosts read this blog I might encourage them to do exactly this! If any of you readers hear stuff like this or read stuff like this, let me know. Maybe this view is already out there!)
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Then there's all that lovely oil and literally about a trillion tons of methane ice at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
They leave that alone for a couple of reasons: one, all those rich and retired Floridians are the base of the Bu$h family support right now.
The other thing has to do with the connection between methane ice- produced largely by bacterial action- and non fossil oil.
A lot of the geology types call it "abiotic" because it obviously isn't fossil, but "abiotic" may still be produced by specialized archebacteria.
They keep this quiet for a very good reason: if anaerobic bacteria produce methane and fix it into longer hydrocarbon chain, a biotech company might get the idea of growing the bugs to make the hydrocarbon.
On an industrial scale.
Which would pretty much deal Halliburton and all of Saudi Arabia right out of the picture.
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