[/caption]British Petroleum’s protracted oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is steadily causing untold damage to the surrounding areas and the constant failures of those responsible for the spill to stem the leak is becoming like Chinese water torture to the American psyche. With all that said, I hope that the radical environmentalist agenda does not now hold sway in the Obama Administration. I am a simply man and a simple explanation will suffice to answer those of my environmental pundit friends who are using this accident to advocate and prevent all drilling. Everyday we traverse this great world via airplanes, and yet they have been countless crashes, which have taken many lives. I used this analogy to that of the BP's spill to show that we do not need to abandon drilling, which provides the energy we need. On a broader take on the environmental subject issue, how come they have nothing to say about the other countries like China, England, Norway… and Brazil who are drilling off their respective coasts?
This confined critique of America’s environmental policy is always, only addressed to us, but not to the world at large. Perhaps it is because we consumed more of the planet’s energy and therefore, supposedly, commits more of the environmental damage. I am honest enough to admit that others have been better Stewards of our environment than we have been. But it must be addressed that the French and others who drill of their coasts, and moreover, get much of their energy from Nuclear power… even though it has the potential to be dangerous (Chernobyl). Why is it that many of our European brothers can rely on Nuclear power to meet their energy needs, but the thought of us doing the same is frown upon here? To be objective, President Obama has made Nuclear power part of our general scheme to wean us off foreign oil. Those in the know say it was a compromise from the president to receive the votes needed for “Cap & Trade.” Whatever the reason, I would want our policy on energy to be all encompassing… while reconciling our duties to the environment.
We cannot simply abandon coal, oil drilling, or Nuclear power, because these sources of energy could be… and are dangerous to the environment. The angel of compromise must forever be our mediator between the environment and our need to survive and I dare say to live in convenience-they are not mutually exclusive contrary to what many of my environmentalist brothers would posit. The monies allocated to “Green Projects” are prudent and forward looking, but the results of such investments will not be had until way in our future; in the interim, the jobs provided by the old reliable forms of energy… but are hostile to our environment will have to be gradually abandon… so as not to adversely shock the system.
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[/caption]The truth is that I myself do not place much credence in many of the positions held by my environmentalist brothers on this issue - this is so because as a boy, I distinctly remembered and read about the coming ice-age, a position that was being posited by many of the same scientists who are now the experts on Global Warming, etc. But as long as I am the author of this blog, I will try to address both sides on issues of import and when I am being biased, you will know. To reiterate, the current spill should not prevent us from drilling for convenient energy sources because our concerns for the environment can be reconciled. The Russians did not abandon Nuclear energy because of the tragedy of Chernobyl nor did the Europeans who get most of their electricity this way - the latter being better stewards of the environment.
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