I would love for someone to explain to me why John McCain’s answer to the Energy Crisis is to lift the ban on offshore drilling.
It would be great if someone out there in the blogosphere could explain to me why destroying more ocean willife with human industry to simply get more oil is the answer to this giant question of “what’s next?”
The idea to me is simply flabergasting, yet at the same time, tells me so much about who runs this country. God forbid we as a people demanded an alternative; a gas-less nation where oil and the un-fixable situations that surround it no longer touch our lives. Of course, a country like that would be free of big oil. And that’s where you find McCain.
I’m just as affected by the present gas prices as anyone else. I need my car to get to work across town, my family and many of my close friends live out of town and out of state. The infrastructure and public transit systems do not allow for me to sell my car, and my way of life depends on the money I bring in working. We’re all in vicious cycles that only serve to stress and anger us as we watch the prices rise.
But, even as I see my paycheck spent faster and faster, I can’t bring myself to believe that reaping oil from the fragile coast is the right decision. It’s not only that I think conservation of what we cannot lose is important, but also, that drilling for oil where we haven’t before is only a temporary solution to what is a much bigger and more complex problem. Constantly, our lawmakers have shown us that in the United States, a dollar and a quick fix is more important than a stable solution.
Our dependence on foriegn oil is a problem in need of an immediate solution, but we can’t forget the underlying cause is our dependence on oil in general.
What’s next?
