What people seem to forget is that oil IS natural. So is coal. Why do you think they call it NATURAL gas? We could just as easily call it NATURAL oil and NATURAL coal. And people seem to forget that right in Los Angeles is the La Brea Tar Pits. Another NATURAL thing. There are natural oil seeps off the coast of California and in the Gulf of Mexico. Drilling for and using the oil would reduce these natural seeps.
Hadn’t heard about national parks being privatized, but if true I say “Full speed ahead!” Private interests ALWAYS look after their property better than government bureaucracy does. Every acre that Forever Wild, Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, and government grabs is doomed to deteriorate. The power company in my neck of the woods owned an entire watershed to protect its hydro plant resource, but once it abandoned the hydro plant as too small, it donated the acreage, some to the state and some to the feds.Guess what? Where the power company provided public use access and maintained the forest and trails to generate revenue, the government goons neglected to do even the most basic things to protect the resources. Result: lower water quality, eroded and degraded trails with increased erosion, and a massive kill-off of trees from a borer infestation. Today, the once beautiful, park-like forest has suffered several devastating fires and still has a massive fuel load of dead trees waiting for the next inferno. Private ownership would never have let this happen.
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”
Hmm, which part of that do you “real Americans” think is untrue?
legaleagle48 over 11 years ago
Your Tea Party dollars at work!
doffy over 11 years ago
I wonder when they’re going to visit The Solyndra Fire Pits. They say if you throw money into them…Nothing happens.
Jonni over 11 years ago
Exxon created one of those when its tanker spilled about 8 million gallons in Valdez, Alaska.
BloomCo over 11 years ago
What people seem to forget is that oil IS natural. So is coal. Why do you think they call it NATURAL gas? We could just as easily call it NATURAL oil and NATURAL coal. And people seem to forget that right in Los Angeles is the La Brea Tar Pits. Another NATURAL thing. There are natural oil seeps off the coast of California and in the Gulf of Mexico. Drilling for and using the oil would reduce these natural seeps.
legaleagle48 over 11 years ago
Is it? Which party wants to eliminate all environmental controls so that its pet corporations can run about unfettered? Hint: It’s not the Democrats.
barryj35967 over 11 years ago
Hadn’t heard about national parks being privatized, but if true I say “Full speed ahead!” Private interests ALWAYS look after their property better than government bureaucracy does. Every acre that Forever Wild, Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, and government grabs is doomed to deteriorate. The power company in my neck of the woods owned an entire watershed to protect its hydro plant resource, but once it abandoned the hydro plant as too small, it donated the acreage, some to the state and some to the feds.Guess what? Where the power company provided public use access and maintained the forest and trails to generate revenue, the government goons neglected to do even the most basic things to protect the resources. Result: lower water quality, eroded and degraded trails with increased erosion, and a massive kill-off of trees from a borer infestation. Today, the once beautiful, park-like forest has suffered several devastating fires and still has a massive fuel load of dead trees waiting for the next inferno. Private ownership would never have let this happen.
grenjello over 11 years ago
Fomally known as Valdese Alaska
jtviper7 over 11 years ago
More politics in the comics… Bah Humbug.
travburg1 over 11 years ago
BRAVO!
ginkens001 over 11 years ago
You mean it’s not the B.P. Nature Park
folklegendredux over 11 years ago
Did I wake up in 1986?
watmiwori over 11 years ago
T’ain’t funny, McGee.
beyondnow777 over 11 years ago
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”
Hmm, which part of that do you “real Americans” think is untrue?
The Life I Draw Upon over 11 years ago
Which candidate? Which poison is safer? BTW: there was an oil spill into the Yellowstone River.