Fallout from Gulf Oil Spill
It has been nearly seven weeks since the BP oil rig platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers on April 20. And while remedial actions to stop the oil flow out of this well have succeeded only partially and definitely not timely, one clear result so far has been that all future offshore oil exploration has been effectively stopped. Nobody can at this time truly estimate the total fallout of this disaster in terms of expenses and damage to wildlife and the fishing industry in some Southern States and it will take a lot more time to get a handle on these numbers. But in and off itself, the disaster has been able to rally the liberal environmentalists around the country to demand an immediate stop to all further drilling plans and they appear to have succeeded.
There goes the idea of developing and starting an effective energy plan to become (somewhat) energy independent and reducing our dependency on foreign oil sources. One cannot wonder if the environmentalist anti-drill groups are not secretly jubilating behind closed doors as they see this disaster as a timely aid in their objectives. Their charter, while not written on paper, is obviously a severe reversal of our current lifestyles, not only in the USA but worldwide. If they could rule the world, they would all have us back on bicycles or walking on foot or being transported by horse buggies. We wonder if they would not also eliminate railroads, buses and other major mass transportation systems.
It is really too bad that we cannot transport these self-proclaimed environment protectors and fanatics by way of ‘time tunnel’ back into the middle ages, let’s say the early fifteen hundreds. When one hears them talk, they appear to think of that long ago era as the “golden years” of mankind. But we here at Common Sense University strongly believe that they are all hypocrites. Their true dream is that we all would have to give up all the benefits of our modern age while they could hang on to them. Do you really think that they would give up their computers, blackberries, cell phones and so on freely? Of course not because they would have done so already since all these modern conveniences require some sort of energy, electricity, batteries etc and that is all bad according to them.
Just look at one their icons: Former Vice-President Al Gore wrote a book about twenty years ago wherein he proposed to eliminate the combustion engines in cars. This unabashed, arrogant hypocrite has been trying to warn us all against the greatest global disaster of all, called global warming and yet, he and his wife just bought a huge nine million dollar mansion just south of Santa Barbara, California. Add this to the fact that he flies around the world in private jets, rides on land in luxurious limousines and enjoys one of the most energy consuming lifestyles most of us cannot even dream of. This is one of the most identifiable images of unabashed liberalism, their motto is: Do as I say and not as I do!
We here bemoan the oil spill disaster for its true reason and that is simply the damage that it is causing to the waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the beach properties of the Southern States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, even Texas and possibly Florida. The damage to wildlife will be enormous and the effect on the fishing industry cannot even be measured at this time. We also hope that this ‘accidental disaster’ will result in tighter safety measures for current as well as future offshore oil drilling ventures but to stop it altogether is an overreaction by environmentalists and politicians and that is very unfortunate.
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