West Texas Oil Is Gushing But Pipelines Can't Handle It! So What? It's Just Oil!
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By Marc J. Rauch
Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher
THE AUTO CHANNEL
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I say, so what? What's the big deal, it's just petroleum oil. It's not like the stuff can kill wildlife or poison the water supply. It's not like the stuff could catch fire and cause the destruction of homes or businesses. It's not as if the fumes can cause or aggravate respiratory problems in humans and animals.
We have too many damn birds anyway, pooping on peoples' heads and car windows. All those stupid geese flying around with their annoying honking noises. Good grief, a guy can barely take a satisfying afternoon nap with that racket. And so what if bears and deer get stuck in oil, who needs them? All they do is steal from your backyard and destroy your garden.
And fish, we're supposed to be worried about fish? All we do is kill and eat them anyway, what's the difference if they die from being inundated with petroleum crude oil or if they end up in a seafood taco?
So what if some beaches and parks have to be closed during clean-up. A good thorough cleaning of the beaches and parks is needed anyway. Complaining about this means that you don't trust the oil companies to clean up the mess. What's the matter, these are large, public companies, don't you trust them?
Everyone should just rush on down to the spill sites with jars and pails and scoop the stuff up so they can use it at home to patch up their driveways. A guy named Alex Epstein wrote a book titled "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels." Every one should just consider this a great "moral" gift from the oil companies, and if you bring 12 jars you'll have a full case of it!
C'mon, give the oil industry a break. Think of all the good things they're responsible for: World Wars, Alzheimer's Disease, children's autism, and smoggy overcast skies to reduce the glare of bright sunlight, to name just a few of the benefits of oil.
Stop being so greedy and only thinking of yourself and family. Oilmen have families, too, you know. If they have to curtail their efforts to pump out more oil, how else are they going to afford the mortgage payments on their new vacation homes?
Incidentally, in my forthcoming 600-page book "THE ETHANOL PAPERS," I'm not nearly so generous with my opinion of the oil industry.
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