Raise Your Glass to Celebrate, the Exxon Valdez Spill is 21 Years Old
Raise your glass (or your oil soaked bird)! The Exxon Valdez oil spill turned 21 years old yesterday! Whoo hoo! Let’s party like Joseph Hazelwood!
Oil is such lovely stuff. We definitely want it washing up on our beaches too. Drill, baby, drill.
Or not…
It’s not too late to email Secretary Salazar. He is expected to make a decision on Virginia drilling soon. Tell him to stop the rush to drill Virginia!!!
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March 25th, 2010 at 7:15 am
Those members of the Sierra Club who oppose domestic oil drilling should be the first to park their vehicles and stop using toilet paper when they go to the bathroom. Even that toilet paper that comes about through recycling was hauled throughout the recycling process by a truck that still depends on crude oil to get it into your bathroom. In fact I think I could prove that recycling paper involves increased usage of crude oil to accomplish the recycling. Instead of transporting raw lumber short distances, the trucking industry transports paper for recycling long distances. I know from experience, I am that truck driver who hauls it, you can not hide the truth from me.
Stop demanding that the citizens of third world countries must pay all the costs of environmental degradation to keep that toilet paper in your bathroom. Park your fuel efficient vehicle in your driveway and lead by example. Make sure you grow all of your own food as well. If you get any of your food from the grocery store remember it did not show up there by magic, a truck hauled it there.
March 26th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I just need to know how the VB Dems intend to offset the rising taxes if we don’t raise revenue? The oil industry is one of the most highly inspected industries due to EV. Even the Gulf Operations are among the best controlled and inspected of any industry. I wish the corn my parents grow could make enough energy to sustain production. But it cannot. Until gas gets to 4.00 per gallon no one will complain and AE takes second seat. Have you ever noticed that as soon as it gets that close, the price mysteriously comes down? If the premise is that we need to get away from oil, then why not drill, use it up and then we’ll have to find AE!
March 27th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
I would have no objection to raising the gas tax and dedicating that funding to transportation.
Even all the current technology, regulation, and inspections can’t stop oil spills from occurring.
Oil and coal are only economically competitive because of public subsidies at all stages of production and externalizing costs such as environmental impacts and health costs. Instead of investing even more in outdated technology, why not shift our investment toward the technologies of the future that will create jobs?
March 27th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Well there seems to be some debate on how many jobs taxing carbon will cost us. But you will find agreement from the trucking industry that increased fuel taxes are the most efficient method of funding our infrastructure as long as the taxes imposed are fair.
When you talk of technologies of the future, I am going to start screaming fusion. Even if fusion becomes a reality (I describe it as the hope of mankind) nuclear waste is going to come about. Environmentalists oppose much of what I am in favor of by opposing the relatively safe long term storage of nuclear waste that comes from our current nuclear power industry as well as the nuclear waste produced as a result of even the promise of fusion.
I am opposed to anyone who insists there is no answer and according to many, even fusion will not be the answer. It too will produce waste. However it too might produce the long term energy needs to keep your home heated in the winter and cooled in the summer. If you object to this, then be the first to turn you back. Park your fuel efficient vehicle and stop shopping at the local grocery store. I am keeping my fingers crossed for fusion.