"Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives."
Yes, very much off-topic. A lot of the blame for the disaster in the Mexican Gulf can be laid squarely at the environmental activists. One thing the Deepwater Horizons has taught us is that while being able to drill at such depths is a remarkable technological achievement, the extreme conditions at those depths make it nearly impossible to deal with problems when things go wrong.
What if instead of having to drill in deep water so far offshore because of environmental regulations, we could drill closer in, on the continental shelf, with fixed rigs built on stilts. It's a much simpler challenge, and more to the point, should any problems arise, they would be much more manageable. Oil-well blowouts have happened before, both on land and in water. There are techniques for stopping them. It is the extreme conditions of having to work with robots at bone crushing pressures a mile below the surface that have made it so hard to control this one and thus lead to its being such a disaster.
Nappy confesses to having drunk the liberal Kool-Aid 23 years ago, joining in the left's fashionable sentiment that Ronald Reagan was an amiable dunce, contrasting with the liberal elites in academia and the media, the chattering class who knew better and were oh, so smart. Never mind that Reagan clearly articulated for decades a clearly thought out set of ideas and was eloquent in presenting them.
Our current sorry excuse for a potty-mouthed affirmative-action president has been hailed for his oratory and his scholarship. He may be a good rabble-rouser, but #44 doesn't hold a candle to Ronald Reagan's great light, either as a thinker or as a communicator.
Also via Palin, (OT, but timely) Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR, excerpt:
"Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives."
Yes, very much off-topic. A lot of the blame for the disaster in the Mexican Gulf can be laid squarely at the environmental activists. One thing the Deepwater Horizons has taught us is that while being able to drill at such depths is a remarkable technological achievement, the extreme conditions at those depths make it nearly impossible to deal with problems when things go wrong.
What if instead of having to drill in deep water so far offshore because of environmental regulations, we could drill closer in, on the continental shelf, with fixed rigs built on stilts. It's a much simpler challenge, and more to the point, should any problems arise, they would be much more manageable. Oil-well blowouts have happened before, both on land and in water. There are techniques for stopping them. It is the extreme conditions of having to work with robots at bone crushing pressures a mile below the surface that have made it so hard to control this one and thus lead to its being such a disaster.
Nappy confesses to having drunk the liberal Kool-Aid 23 years ago, joining in the left's fashionable sentiment that Ronald Reagan was an amiable dunce, contrasting with the liberal elites in academia and the media, the chattering class who knew better and were oh, so smart. Never mind that Reagan clearly articulated for decades a clearly thought out set of ideas and was eloquent in presenting them.
Our current sorry excuse for a potty-mouthed affirmative-action president has been hailed for his oratory and his scholarship. He may be a good rabble-rouser, but #44 doesn't hold a candle to Ronald Reagan's great light, either as a thinker or as a communicator.
Hear, hear, Nappy.
Ditto, except I never drank the liberal kool aid, that doesnt make me a heartless bastard, but rather perceptive and a quick learner.
We are 40 years behind on Nuclear Technology because of the Western Left as well.