Forgetting history
May 16th, 2008, 5:13 am · Post a Comment · posted by fsherman
A writer in the Daily News this morning, explaining why it is perfectly, perfectly safe to allow off-shore drilling, asserts that “The last offshore oil spill was at Santa Barbara, Calif., in the 1960s.”
Exxon Valdez, anyone?
Letter writers keep discussing how we need to wean ourselves off foreign energy sources by drilling and attain energy independence. I wonder if they’d go for cartoonist Dan Perkins’ proposal: Before we drill, commit, in law, to a ceiling on how much foreign oil we import, based on how much we take out of the ANW (or the Gulf). If we hit the ceiling, we conserve.
Makes sense to me.
