Could We Get Them to Secede Again?
I know the beaches of South Carolina well. They are irreplaceable and should be protected at all costs.
Sadly, we’ve all come to know the POLITICIANS of South Carolina, who are perhaps the biggest cluster of Chimpy-worshiping wingtard nutcases in the whole country. They’ve gone out of their way to kneel at the altar of the Reign of Error for as long as it has existed.
They are kneeling again, after the moronic monkey’s ridiculous proposal to open up their coastline to drilling. You’d think that these idiots might understand that by the time a single drop of oil came from any such project, the pain of high gas prices would have been with us for at least a decade. They also don’t seem to understand that the prospect of much oil off that beautiful coastline is iffy; it may or may NOT pan out. And even if it DOES pan out, the most optimistic estimates are that we might get 18 months’ wroth at out present consumption rates. What we will NOT get back is the environment that is destroyed by the drilling. Don’t let what McCavein says fool you either; once drilled, the undersea does not ever recover itself. Just ask the folks off the coast of Louisiana, who are STILL dealing with leakages from Katrina.
Clearly, the ‘tards of South Carolina have to know all this. So what’s the game here? The game is pretty simple, actually-the Goppers are hunting for a wedge issue for 2008, and they think they might be able to parlay offshore drilling into such an issue. Ultimately, the opposition to offshore drilling is going to shut it back down after this election cycle is over, and the South Carolina ‘tards must surely know THAT, too. This is a cynical, crass pander to a lot of suffering people. The hypocrisy is disgusting, and those who are presently engaging in it are the worst sort of scum.
Will the South Carolina voters ever wake up and send these idiots off to the mental institutions they belong in? I’m so tired of elections being flipped on stupid panders to gullible people. Would the people who thought the moronic monkey was gonna put them fags down once and for all please show me where he ever made the slightest effort to do it? Why does anyone think McCavein will be any different when it comes to this issue?
If every person has his price, for Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Jim DeMint and Rep. Joe Wilson, the political price on coastal oil drilling is $4 a gallon.
Graham, DeMint and Wilson no longer oppose oil exploration off the South Carolina coast – driven, they say, by constituents’ pain at the pump and the national security threat from U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
“I care about the environment,” Wilson, a Lexington, S.C., Republican, said. “I care about our hospitality industry. Oil on our beaches would be catastrophic. But when oil reached $130 a barrel, that certainly got my attention.”
The three GOP lawmakers previously backed only natural gas exploration off South Carolina, a less intrusive and less visible form of drilling without the pollution threat of an oil spill.
Graham, of Seneca, S.C., cited “the explosion of gas prices and the unlimited demand from China and India” as key reasons for his change on oil drilling.
“We have to make sure it’s done in an environmentally sensitive way,” Graham said. “We have to protect the shoreline and tourism. Balance is what I’m looking for. We don’t want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. I don’t want people on the coast of South Carolina to look at a bunch of oil rigs.”
DeMint, from Greenville, S.C., said the state could use the tens of millions of dollars from oil and gas royalties for beach renourishment, wetlands protections and inter-coastal waterway maintenance.
“I think it’s desperately needed,” DeMint said. “The states would be in control of the leases and where the pipes came ashore, so South Carolina would be in the driver’s seat.”
The lawmakers noted that the portion of the Outer Continental Shelf off South Carolina likely holds substantial natural gas reserves, but considerably less oil, according to preliminary analyses.
In North Carolina, Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole continues to oppose offshore oil exploration off her state’s coast. Fellow GOP Sen. Richard Burr supports it.
Most of a dozen or so proposed congressional measures to lift the 1982 federal drilling ban would require coastal states to approve oil and gas exploration, and would forbid it less than 50 miles from shore.
Led by President Bush and Sen. John McCain, the party’s presumptive White House nominee, Graham, DeMint and Wilson are among a growing number of Republican politicians urging an end to the drilling moratorium.
“If congressional leaders leave for the Fourth of July recess without taking action, they will need to explain why $4 a gallon gasoline is not enough incentive for them to act,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.
Bush’s aides acknowledged that lifting the drilling ban wouldn’t give drivers immediate relief.
“If you’re looking for any measure that would significantly reduce gasoline prices over a period of weeks or months, those tools just don’t exist,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Friday.
Ann Timberlake, executive director of Conservation Voters of South Carolina, said the debate over drilling in Washington is a distraction from the failure of Congress to pass comprehensive energy legislation.
“It’s shortsighted to think drilling is the answer,” she said. “All it does is jeopardize our clean beaches just to buy us a little bit of time and prolong our addiction to cheap gas.”
Bingo, Ann, and the truth is nobody even knows if it would buy us any time. As much as I hate to say it, Elizabeth Dole is on the right side of this issue.
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