Bill Wilson: Don’t Fall For Eco-Radical Fiction On Drilling
THE LEFT’S LIES ABOUT OFFSHORE DRILLING ARE FOOLING SOME COASTAL “CONSERVATIVES” |You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Who gives a shit about a bunch of whales and dolphins? They’ll all be dead soon enough – with or without drilling. We gotta get that awl. Am I right Bill?
Then so will your children. (Just as sarcastic)
This article is dead on right except for one item, The “ravaged heartland” is called farming. An otherwise good article ruined with one pile of BS.
Click the link. That’s an AP report discussing how government ethanol mandates impacted Iowa’s environment. You don’t have to agree with it, but it’s not “BS.”
There are a dozen things wrong with this article. The twisted agenda for one.
He lost me at a “think tank” started by Jim DeMint. First its was started by Jim Diment, so its got to be bad for everyone except the people paying Jim DeMint. Second, its a “think tank”, not a “science tank.” Think tanks are places where people think up ways to bash, cover up, or discredit information they do not like. That said I am torn. One of the few people I think is more sleazy than Jim DeMint is Mark Sanford. So i suspect that somehow SC will be screwed by either DeMint or Sanford somehow.
Guess I just can’t totally ignore this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=california+oil+spill&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS439US439&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=947&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cXFkVcGzG4WlgwSvuYCYAw&ved=0CFAQsAQ
Or this
https://www.google.com/search?q=california+oil+spill&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS439US439&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=947&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cXFkVcGzG4WlgwSvuYCYAw&ved=0CFAQsAQ#tbm=isch&q=pictures+gulf+oil+spill
What could possibly go wrong?
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Btw: in one of those recent photos of a west coast cleanup, there were more g’ment unionized bird cleaners than there were dirty birds. The oil-spill/industrial/union complex has found their niche.
Dozens of thoughtful citizens have been showing up at minor spills to help, only to be “run off the job” by the SEIU.
No they are not.
Offshore drilling is a dirty, hazardous, excessively expensive operation.
And drilling offshore right smack dab in the middle of the East Coast food supply is stupid beyond belief.
There is absolutely no economic reason to drill offshore, any shore, when there are untapped sources on shore where cleanup can be more easily contained and the costs are under control.
(Yes, there are environmental mental cases. Yes, there are poli-wogs with their slimy greedy hands out. Disclosure: I’m fifth generation in the family oil business.)
the repetition of ‘eco-radicals’ is a highly effective rhetorical practice. it convinces the reader by sheer strength of numbers. in editing, i would only add more instances of this meaningful term; perhaps one in every line. A+
Mmmmm … Same tactic as used by the est-holes & scientologists on the “progressive” quasi-left.
http://pdfs.citizenaudit.org/2014_08_EO/36-3975580_990O_201312.pdf
So how many of these groups has Howard Rich funded?
IRS Form 990
Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax
AMERICAN FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT INC.
PART II Loan to and/or From Interested Persons
(a) Name of interested person: HOWARD RICH
(b) Relationship with organization: CHAIRMAN
(c) Purpose of loan: WORKING CAPITAL
(d) Loan to or from the organization?: To
(e) Original principal amount: 500,000
(f) Balance due: 559,366
(g) In default? : No
(h) Approved by board or committee?: Yes [No surprise here when the Chairman of the Board paid the money.]
(i) Written agreement? [Howard Rich wrote an I.O.U. to himself?]
“Eco-radical fiction on drilling”
Deepwater Horizon is enough non-fiction to be worried as hell about oil shills like this guy is telling you there is nothing to worry about. More crony capitalists sucking the Kochs of the energy industry.
If Samantha Siegel = eco-radical
Does Bill Wilson = eco-rapist?
“Last fall, a report from the Palmetto Policy Forum…”
The report is authored by Timothy Considine, referred to some as a “frackademic” who produces “research” advocating for the petroleum industry.
Frackademics: Timothy Considine – Analyst or Advocate?http://public-accountability.org/2012/06/frackademics-timothy-considine-analyst-or-advocate/
REPORT
The UB Shale Play: Distorting the Facts about Fracking
A Review of the University at Buffalo Shale Resources
and Society Institute’s Report on “Environmental Impacts During
Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling”http://public-accountability.org/2012/05/ub-shale-play/
Considine coauthored a previous report promoting the economic benefits of fracking in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale. His report was taken to task. Subsequently, his employer at that time, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State Univerisity, retracted the original version of Timothy Considine’s report because they “found flaws in the way the report was written and presented to the public. Specifically, the initial version of the report ” did not identify the sponsor of the research, which is a clear error” And, the authors “may well have crossed the line between policy analysis and policy advocacy. In particular, the prose dealing with the potential effects of a severance tax on drilling rates in Pennsylvania should be more scholarly and less advocacy minded.”
http://www.northcentralpa.com/sites/default/files/Easterling-RDAletter.pdf