Posted on 06/18/2010 11:49:15 AM PDT by nhwingut
The most idiotic juvenile uniformed overreaction… To be exact.
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I once heard him say, “If I had my say, you’d walk from Mississippi to Mexico without touching water. A rig every ten feet.”
Better said: Idiocy from an idiotic Jack Squat administration about to implode on itself.....
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/18/trace.adkins.new.album/
spent his 20s as an oil rigger off the coast of his native Louisiana. Even in the wake of the deaths of 11 men in the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, even in the wake of the oil spill that’s gumming up the Gulf of Mexico, he defends offshore drilling.
“Until we find another alternative, that’s what we gotta do,” he says during a break in the filming of his new music video.
He recently spoke with CNN about his career and the Gulf Coast oil disaster.
CNN: You’re 48, yet your career seems to be on the upswing.
Trace Adkins: Well, because we keep working hard. I don’t ever take anything for granted. Until I decide that I don’t want to do this anymore, I’m going to approach every day like it’s the last day of my career.
CNN: The beginning was a bit of a rough ride. How’d that all turn around?
Adkins: Maturity, age, wisdom and a good woman — all those things. And a lot of kids. (He has five daughters)
CNN: What is it that really turned the corner for you?
Adkins: Well, when I quit drinking, really — if you want to get down to brass tacks, that’s when things started to get a lot better for me. When I quit using, things got better. Simple as that.
CNN: Sounds like a nice incentive to not revisit that lifestyle.
Adkins: I’m not saying that I wouldn’t ever, but I won’t do it again unless my accountant tells me I can. (Chuckles)
CNN: Back in the day, you were an oil rigger.
Adkins: I worked in the oil field for 10 years.
CNN: Did you ever imagine something like this disaster could happen?
Adkins: Sure. We trained for it; we drilled for it. It was something that we were always cognizant of — always knew there was a possibility. I went to work for Golden Marine drilling company, and it was right after they had lost a drill ship called the Java Sea. 170-something men, I think, they lost on that drill ship. I’ve seen the hurt, because it’s like a big family.
CNN: Oil is headed for the shore in the Gulf.
Adkins: It’s just the price of doing business in the petroleum world, unfortunately. And people think, “If we just quit using petroleum in our cars.” The day we stop using petroleum, you’d better find a way to make plastics, all kinds of medicines and clothes that we wear and the shoes that we wear, the houses that we live in. All that stuff is made out of petroleum, so don’t just think it’s gasoline.
CNN: Are you for offshore drilling?
Adkins: Absolutely. I mean, I don’t know how many years now we’ve been drilling off-shore, but you’ve had one case where this has happened in all those years, and all these tens of thousands of wells that have been drilled out there. I’m all for weaning ourselves off of oil, don’t get me wrong, but until we find another alternative, that’s what we gotta do.
CNN: A lot of criticism is being levied at the national news agencies for not giving enough of a spotlight to flood victims in Nashville.
Adkins: I don’t feel slighted in any way. I’m not worried about it because I think that Nashville — as a community and as a city — will cowboy up and will take care of the situation. We’ll take care of it. We don’t need everybody in the country to come run to our aid.
Trace is a stand up guy. I’m not a CW music person but I like him, he has lived hard and learned a lot.
Any chance he’ll run for Congress?
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