mdavid writes:
Three of the projects were approved with waivers exempting them from detailed studies of their environmental impact -- the same waiver the MMS granted to BP for the ill-fated well that's been fouling the Gulf with crude for two months.
"Environmental impact"? This is a joke. What is needed is engineering analysis. This spill occurred due to an engineering mistake - the last thing we need is a bunch of environmental "experts" who don't have a clue about anything weighing in and putting valuable resources into political bribes and favors these environmental regulations are all about. Yes, the regulations that effect engineering are absolutely needed. The rest is all bunk - I know, I've been involved with drilling for over a decade and know all about how this game is played. It's a shakedown by the environmental lobby who offer zip to help. Of course, the public is ignorant and believes the media, which also knows zip.
Obama said he was ``closing the loophole that has allowed some oil companies to bypass some critical environmental reviews.'
He has no choice. Want to wreck the economy more than he already has? Stop deepwater drilling and find out. Oil is one of the few things America still makes, and we still don't make enough oil and have to import today...and we are in massive debt due to progressive government spending. Somebody needs to make the money for all the new taxes. Obama is screwed - he has to drill. It's sort of fun to watch big talkers like Obama squirm when reality bites.
"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do" -- Wendell Berry.
I remember reading Berry's classic story of him using a backhoe...and elsewhere how he "needs" a car to "be of service" to other people...etc, etc, etc. Bottom line: everyone is yapping about how terrible the gulf spill is. Sure, it's bad. But they also opin how it's all the other guy's fault. That's what Berry is all about in this quote - it's the pols, never the user. Well, if you fly, or drive, go ahead and look in the mirror. We are the cause. There is simply no way to avoid environmental "impact" when living on the earth and consuming. Oil actually has one of the lowest footprints of any energy source. The only real way to make a lower "impact" is to use less. Something all these self-described environmentalists don't seem to want to do (see: Gore).
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