Bellicose Bumpkin

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.