All Posts Tagged With: "NIMBY"

NIMBY means never having oil spilled on your shores, rather having it spill on the shores of other countries.

John McCain had previously lined up with the Not In My Back Yard energy users so common in these United States. What a hypocrite. Pure and unmitigated. And selfish.

As oil ladened tankers travel thousands and thousands of miles on oceans, near remote islands and wildlife as well as population centers that have no say in the matter of their being exposed to Valdez type spills when all goes wrong, as it does and as it will.

Recently, as The Republican Presumptive, in light of $4 plus gasoline which is transferring massive amounts of wealth from users to producers, enriching oil producing sovereign countries who own and control most of that oil, John McCain did what?

He Changed His Mind - Hypocrite. After taking one position, he now has a different position on offshore drilling and is reportedly considering changing his stance on ANWAR. Is there only hypocrisy in change or can there be virtue in change? $4 and rising is different than $2 and below according to my checkbook.

When will we recognize, to a person in this country, that we are long overdue for a dose of self responsibility in several areas including this one. Even if it means we expose our previous hypocrisy as we transition to less selfish actions. Even if it means further showcasing hypocrisy inherent in changing ones mind. Even if it means waking up or learning new information or accepting old information. This is not new stuff. But a new view is overdue.

Hypocrisy is not always such a bad thing and McCain’s most recent demonstration of hypocrisy is may be virtuous and if not, it is in our and the worlds best interest. Yes, folks, we must also improve other known sources of energy so that our price sensitive consumers and businesses will transition to them.

We all want bargains and oil remains a bargain. Believe it. I wish we would run out of it tomorrow, but unfortuantely we won’t and many foreign countries enjoy low extraction costs and could lower the price of oil if necessary. Bit player Exxon cannot, but OPEC et al, can. Did you notice that China is moving prices in the direction of market prices? They recognize the need to reduce their subsidies while the naive in the US clamor for subsidy.

Every one who uses oil & gas based energy and WHO HAS A CHOICE (and you probably do) to do something different and myopically focuses on complaining about US based oil companies which are collectively minority players, all the while giving sovereign monopolists a complete pass, are unmitigated partisan politicos playing catch 22 with immunity out in the open. Let’s call out everyone on this destructive behavior. Ride a bike, put on a sweater, Jimmy Carter did and it worked, right?

Using oil is destructive to the environment you might say. So stop using it. And support the New Manhattan Project even though Max Shultz of The Manhattan Institute wrongly asserts it is a waste of time.

BUT, in the meantime, DO NOT continue to commit SOAP, our current Suicidal Oil Avoidance Policy, brought to you by rich people. Confront this national security issue on all fronts.

And guess what, even after you do, and no matter what you do, oil yet to be discovered will still get used. Whether we use it or not.

We have no control over that and continuing to arrogate as if we did, is ignorance approaching stupidity. Actually, it is more like stupidity arrived.

I pray for more hypocrisy and soon.