Sitting on the beach this morning and thinking about many things, I arrived at a new position on one key issue: The argument that offshore drilling will diminish the beauty of our coastlines no longer works, and I am now in full support of drilling now.
I came to this new stance in a very direct way. As I was sitting on the beach in Dewey Beach and I noticed all of the disgusting ciggarette butts and litter that was polluting the sand and water around me. If we as a community are O.K. with letting our children play in this garbage, then we have no right to say, “Well oil rigs would just ruin my two weeks in July!”
Seriously, liberals and anti-drilling folks are being completely hypocritical when they say that, and I, up until a half hour ago, include myself in that group as well. So from now on, that argument is a non-issue.
Drilling may not reap any benefits for us in the next 10 to 15 years, but it will help my nieces and future children. It isn’t always about us, you know. However, drilling isn’t the only answer. We need alternative energies ASAP and I am just unsure which candidate is going to give us the perfect hybrid of new energy technologies and offshore drilling that we desperately need.
Maybe it’ll be Paris Hilton.
Tags: Alternative Energy, Barack Obama, Beaches, delaware, dewey beach, Drilling, Future, Hybrids, John McCain, Nonsense, Ocean, Offshore Drilling, Paris Hilton, politics, Rehoboth Beach, Vacation, Wind Energy
December 1, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Look up the Santa Barbara oil spill… It might change your mind back again.