According the Harry Reid, Nevada's contribution to us all, it wasn't drilling through gas hydrates, a bad cement job, a failed blow out preventer, and poor on-site engineering that caused the Transocean Horizon disaster. It was Greed.
There is something galling about the Gentleman from Las Vegas lecturing the world about Greed. Fortunately for all of us, his career as a statesmen is about over.
Another genius, Ted Turner, who should have been hospitalized and put under psychiatric observation by his children when he donated a billion dollars to the United Nations (although he later welched because his net worth had been decimated by AOL), pondered that God was telling us that oil is bad.
How he reconciles this position with his avowed atheism (remember he left wife Jane Fonda when she told him she had found God) is still unclear. Perhaps he means it in the way he has always meant it... I think it is wrong, and thus God thinks it is wrong. How very Catholic of the Mouth from the South.
Ever wonder how good ole Ted maintains all those western ranches? You guessed it - leases for the production of oil's prettier cousin, natural gas (although according to Nancy Pelosi, natural gas is not a hydrocarbon, right?). We never hear about it, but apparently his properties produce a pretty damn good bit of it. I guess God is selective in what hydrocarbons he likes better!
Posted by: John | May 18, 2010 at 02:53 PM
Choke, I agree that maybe Jane Fonda got the God thing wrong in the end, but at least she was right about Viet Nam.
Posted by: Royal Enfield | May 18, 2010 at 08:05 PM