Let’s Get Serious

Here may be the most cogent summary yet of facts relating to energy independence or some semblance thereof for America:

Simply Stupid

You cannot read this and conclude anything else but that our elected representatives are ignorant, feeble-minded, duplicitous panderers who should be quickly basted in several $140 dollar a barrel vats of oil, then tarred with some fine American asphalt and conclusively feathered with bags full of down from foie gras fattened geese before being ridden out of town on a redwood rail carved from old-growth forest trees which had previously housed spotted owls and the last population of some sort of venomous tree toad. Please someone, do it.

We can no longer entertain restrictions imposed arbitrarily, often in contradiction of honest scientific research, with regard to impacts of energy production on the environment. We should have been doing these things a decade ago. We are guilty of failing to do them recently, particularly when a supposedly beholden Republican Party in thrall to “Big Oil” held the White House and both chambers of the legislature. There is simply no excuse.

Further delay now, in the face of clear market trends, is inexcusable. The argument that if we start today it will take ten years to see meaningful production is ludicrous. If we don’t start today we will NEVER see any production. We should have started yesterday. We need to start today. We can’t wait until tomorrow.

And for John McCain to somehow link shale oil production in Colorado and Wyoming with some sort of desecration of national parks like Yellowstone or Glacier is disingenuous at the least and abysmally ignorant at worst.