drill, baby, drill!

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sarah palin's recent battle cry - a little muted of late, for some reason...

[Sean]

Originally Posted by //\/\/

sarah palin's recent battle cry - a little muted of late, for some reason...

Yeah, how's that drilly, oily thing working out for ya'?

I think I'll go to that extreme right wing discussion forum I've been frequenting lately and ask if everyone who's ever chanted "drill baby drill" will be donating their money and time to help clean up the ecological disaster that the policies they support and celebrate have created.

[bas_I_am]

I need a bumper sticker that reads, "Drill Baby. . . whoops!"

[cacophony]

Can't make a petroleum-based omlette without cracking a few eggs. And by eggs I mean fragile coastal ecologies.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by cacophony

Can't make a petroleum-based omlette without cracking a few eggs. And by eggs I mean fragile coastal ecologies.

And more importantly to the "drill baby drill" crowd, how about the local economies that are being devastated, from fishing industries, to fish markets, to tourism, etc.? Doesn't exactly move us towards "prosperity".

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bang on, cacophony:

from palin's farcebook page, from a piece titled 'why we can still believe in domestic drilling'

Originally Posted by sarah herself

How could I still believe in drilling America’s domestic supply of energy after having seen the devastation of the Exxon-Valdez spill? I continue to believe in it because increased domestic oil production will make us a more secure, prosperous, and peaceful nation.

albeit a rather oily one. and not very prosperous where the oil lands. otherwise, a bang-on assessment by the century's great thunker.

read the full insight here

[cacophony]

Originally Posted by //\/\/

read the full insight here

no thanks. i don't gotta stick my head inside a garbage can to know it stinks.

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drilling is ok. next time don't spill it

[//\/\/]

nope - the remedy is to distrust pesky foreigners:

Originally Posted by sarahpalinusa twitter

Gulf: learn from Alaska's lesson w/foreign oil co's: don't naively trust- VERIFY

[Deckard]

In the months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig sank in a ball of fire in the Gulf of Mexico, the company had four close calls on pipelines and facilities it operates in Alaska, according to a letter from two congressmen obtained by ProPublica.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...fety-oil-spill