Fri 2 Apr 2010
Obama’s “drill baby, drill!”
Posted by Andrew under Politics
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From The Guardian, “Barack Obama reverses campaign promise and approves offshore drilling“:
Barack Obama took the Republican slogan “drill, baby, drill” as his own today, opening up over 500,000 square miles of US coastal waters to oil and gas exploitation for the first time in over 20 years.
The move, a reversal of Obama’s early campaign promise to retain a ban on offshore exploration, appeared aimed at winning support from Republicans in Congress for new laws to tackle global warming.
This is lunacy for two reasons:
1) Appeasement doesn’t work with the Republicans. We learned that from the health care debate.
2) To deal with global warming, we need to burn LESS fossil fuel (including oil), not more. The idea of “compromising” by drilling for MORE oil in order to build support for burning LESS oil – doesn’t make sense at all.
I saw Alice in Wonderland last weekend, and Obama is making a lot less sense than the March Hare. So what’s really going on here?
