BANNING AMERICAN OFFSHORE DRILLING: ANTI-LOGIC AT ITS WORST

I know that decent rational people view the human fatalities as the greatest tragedy of the recent oil platform explosion, but I doubt that fact even made it on the list of the radical environmentalists now in control of U.S. energy policy. Sure they will use the loss of human life as a minor tool in their argument against further drilling, but I suspect humans dying while engaging in what they view as raping planet Earth fits perfectly with their sense of justice. And I have little doubt that many Gya-chuckle-heads would have considered an even greater human death toll as a step in the right direction to protecting Mother Earth.

I see the biggest problem with the gulf oil rig explosion is that it was a British Petroleum rig that blew up instead of a Mexican or Chinese well. While I'm confident that American interests impacted by the oil spill will recoup a small percentage of lost revenues from British Petroleum, Americans might have a better chance of waking from their cognitive coma after having been laughed at by Mexico or China and totally screwed by the World Court when claims of damages are filed. It speaks great ill for the future of this country that even a single American citizen could be so stupid as to think that U.S. interests are best served by having other countries, that could not care less about our white sand beaches, drill off our coasts, not to mention having a president that holds that belief.