Posted on 08/08/2008 6:57:26 AM PDT by kellynla
There are many things I want independence from -- incoming e-mail, the section of my wedding vows about monogamy, this bogus corporation I created to lower my taxes but now takes up all of my time, Sam Zell -- but foreign oil is not one of them. Foreign oil is my favorite kind of oil. It means other nations clog their beaches with ugly rigs, do dangerous work and suffer environmental disasters and I still get to cruise Sunset Boulevard in my yellow Mini Cooper convertible. Oil exploration is an industry America should look to expand right after alchemy research and pyramid building.
Yet Barack Obama and John McCain, in speeches and ads, have spent this week arguing about who is most serious about achieving independence from foreign energy. Both are willing to drill offshore even though that won't produce more gasoline until long after we all own electric cars. And both want to relieve gas prices by tapping the government's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, despite the fact that there's no emergency and higher prices are the only thing that has been effective at getting Americans to curb consumption of foreign oil. The only smart thing I heard was Obama's advice to fully inflate your tires, though he overlooked the fact that gas stations no longer have free air pumps, or even decent pay ones. I'm surprised he didn't tell us to save gas by not getting lost with the aid of free Amoco maps.
If the candidates wanted to be independent from all oil, I'd embrace that green goal. But they only hate foreign oil. As if foreign oil was inherently different from good, God-fearing, strong-work-ethic American oil, the kind that is ignited by freedom and burns terrorism and France.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Unless his Mini Cooper runs on water, he’s a hypocrite. Yes, it gets decent gas mileage but it still uses GAS.
What a creep.
Good Lord! What a moron! Does he have any concept of how this is draining the life blood of our economy, enriching our enemies and giving them oceans of money with which to bribe our public officials?
The sheer arrogant ignorance of some libs is astounding.
Hey Joel, most oil spills occur from ships transporting foreign oil to us....ya dope!
If someone knows this bozo, please try to give him an economics lesson. Start with the Balance of Payments chapter, then try discussing the impact of input prices on consumer prices. After that done, shoot him.
“The stupidity of this clown is just amazing!”
He drank the whole purchase of the Kool Aid mix didn’t he.
He must have been horribly bloated when he wrote this.
>and I still get to cruise Sunset Boulevard in my yellow Mini Cooper convertible. <
I live in Hollywood, and once I see this idiot’s pansy-ass Cooper, I’ll try to run it down with my gas-guzzling NRA stickered Jeep. (j/k...not really)
The only smart thing (in the excerpt-I haven't read the rest) this idiot adds to the discussion...
Why did Russia invade Georgia?
Couldn’t be Russia’s attempt to dominate the ‘foreign oil’ market, could it?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2523131/Russia-invades-South-Ossetia-as-conflict-with-Georgia-escalates.html
Experts Warn Russia Seeks Influence Over Vast Caspian Oil Reserves
By Brian Padden
Washington
24 December 2007
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-12/2007-12-24-voa38.cfm
Typical liberal -- wants taxes raised but cheats on paying his full share.
ya might want to email those articles to Joel, jstein@latimescolumnists.com ...I don’t know where this clown studied economics & political science(if he did) but he needs to go back and get a refund!
“Oil exploration is an industry America should look to expand right after alchemy research and pyramid building.”
IDIOT.
This is the classic NIMBY mindset. No sacrifice, let others do the “dirty work”. When he’s reading by candle light, this fool can thank California’s idiocy regarding this subject on a host of fronts.
“Hey Joel, most oil spills occur from ships transporting foreign oil to us....ya dope!”
Nope, Natural seepage.
What’s so bad about American oil? Other than it runs counter to the Democrats’ environmental whackiness?
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