There's still thousands of gallons of oil pouring into the Gulf and another new plan in the works to fix it. And, every day, more people show up with their hand out to get some kind of payout from the disaster -whether their claims are valid or not. But, the part that I wonder about is the other side of the coin.
The more these groups, such as environmentalists jump up and down to point out how much oil has leaked into the water, from only one well, one has to wonder how much oil is really there under the sea all told? It's got to be billions and billions of barrels beyond what drillers have access to already.
That means these same environmentalist's trying to protect the duck-billed, purple, three-toed-mugwump have us paying as much as $3.50 a gallon for gas that ought to cost about thirty-five cents at the pump. And if we sat back and looked at the problem of environmentalism effectively, we'd realize that by adding about a nickel to every gallon sold, we'd be able to build each mugwump a new state-of-the-art home in a secluded, lovely neighborhood somewhere else with guards at the gate for protection after transporting them there free-of-charge.
But no, not us. We'd rather say no drilling at all around U.S. waters and make Arab sultans richer than Croesus and let guys like Soros do backroom deals that'll add another few billion to his stash, less whatever he kicks back to our politicians.
For a population that used to be rated at the very top in intellectual pursuits, when you look at the giant rip-off we're faced with here you have to wonder just how really far our educational system has forced us to fall. We not only don't see the forest for the trees, we don't even see the trees themselves. It's no wonder this country's broke.
That's it for today folks.
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