I’ve seen this falsehood-as-fact repeated enough times that I thought I’d mention it. In the most recent Gazette, a letter to the editor stated that the BP oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf was the fault of liberals and environmentalists. The rationale for that bizarre statement is that protests of land-based drilling has pushed it out to deep water. This is so frighteningly mis-informed that it simply staggers the mind.
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People are drilling in the Gulf and elsewhere because THAT’S WHERE THE OIL IS. As a self-proclaimed environmentalist I would stop ALL drilling land based and otherwise and mandate a switch to green technologies. Ocean based drilling is no more palatable to me than land based. But all that is beside the point. The fact remains that environmentalists have nothing to do with the Gulf spill. That disaster is all about the oil industry, lack of proper regulation, and an environmentally disastrous form of energy – fossil fuels.
One of the blogs I follow is Representative Dan Bosley’s blog. Mr. Bosley is the chair of the the committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies. He recently had a post about windmills on farms in New York.
This reminded me of an idea I had while back so I posted the idea as a comment on Mr. Bosley’s blog. Here it is:
Mr. Bosley replied:
Now this isn’t horribly different from Pickens’ plan except that it encourages average citizens to pour money directly into the problem.
Like many of us, I would love to use alternative energy – but the one of the best forms – wind – is not available to me. I don’t care if my windmill is in my back yard, on a hill in western Mass, or in the middle of a desert in Arizona. There are potentially millions and millions, maybe billions of private dollars just waiting to be used to solve our energy and environmental problems.
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