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March 16, 2005
Isn't Alaska a red state?
51 to 49. This was the margin of passage for raping the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge. 51 senators said, "You know. Despite our massive potential for historically groundbreaking innovations in alternative fuel technology, we're going to take a destructive, knee-jerk path towards becoming (slightly) more energy independent."
So what's next on the Republican ass-backwards-solutions agenda?
We've already heard the "save Social Security by killing it" idea and that kinda died an hilariously painful death. Before that, there was the "Healthy Forest Initiative" which effectively called for cutting down forests in order to save them. Doy!
Up next?
PROBLEM: Tsunamis and potential global warming floods.
REPUBLICAN SOLUTION: In order to prevent another catastrophic tsunami, Republicans have proposed draining all oceans. The bonus? No global warming floods.
PROBLEM: Every day, mad cow disease threatens the health and welfare of the American carnivore's appetite for steriod and hormone saturated red meat.
REPUBLICAN SOLUTION: Harvest African mountain gorilla bushmeat. The bonus? McDonalds and the Bush family get a Summertime cross-promotion: the McBush sandwich. The ad copy writes itself... "You'll go APE for the new McBush!" Or, "President Bush says: 'Put the McBush on your families!'"
Congratulations, red state Republican voters. You're awesome. And smart!
Posted By Bob Cesca | March 16, 2005 03:55 PM | DIGG ME!
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I'm really disappointed on this outcome. I heard Jack Cafferty on CNN raving about this earlier this morning, and he made some great points:
It will take about 10 years from the time the drilling begins before seeing an ounce of oil.
The estimated amount of oil to be harvested would total roughly 2% of the foreign oil the US is dependant on – hardly a move towards energy independence.
Remember the Exxon oil spill in Alaska years back?
As long as the super huge global corporations like Exxon control the industry in the name of capitalistic greed, moving to alternative energy sources as an industry standard will be very difficult to accomplish. Like Cafferty mentioned this morning, tires could be produced in Detroit that last for 100,000 miles but it's not done because consumers would then buy less tires.
This issue is a great example of a major flaw in capitalism. There is no control to prevent monetary gains from becoming priority over serious issues like pollution and permanent damage to our planet's ecosystems, among other non-topic problems.
Meanwhile Congress continues to go after baseball players for steroid use. Wonderful sense of priorities....
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at March 17, 2005 03:23 PM
