On offshore drilling and moonbats

       
By J.R. Hoeft
Published July 17th, 2008  

Good post went up last night on “Patriot Room” if only for its headline: “Virginia wants to drill - moonbats go crazy“.

The post is an analysis of a WaPo article on offshore drilling which includes one incredible chicken-little, hyperventilating, doomsday scenario from a “coastkeeper” (aka “moonbat”) from Assateague Island in Maryland and her blithering counterpart from the Sierra Club.

Bill Dupray wraps up his post with a great point:

For some perspective as to how difficult it is to have a spill from an offshore rig, one need only note that when when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita smashed into the Gulf Coast in 2005, MSNBC reported that while more than 7 million gallons of oil were spilled from industrial plants, storage depots and other facilities around southeast Louisiana, the Coast Guard received no reports of any offshore spills.

But the environmentalists also don’t want those stubborn facts to get in the way of their vivid imaginations. You see, the world as we know it will end, even if no oil is spilled, because oil, by its very existence, is bad.

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4 Responses to “On offshore drilling and moonbats”

  1. eileenNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 8:21 am

    That’s real effective… calling people names, and an interesting response to our very legitimate concerns. I thought you were better than that, J.R.

    The storm also caused widespread environmental damage. The Coast Guard worked closely with the Environmental Protection Agency, local industry and state and local officials in Louisiana and Mississippi on more than 700 pollution cases of oil and contaminants released into the waterways by the storm. Fewer than 70 of these cases remained open in October. In southeast Louisiana, the Coast Guard worked with the Unified Command – a team composed of federal, state and local officials in cooperation with industry partners – to conduct aggressive response operations to contain and recover oil in nine major and medium spills totaling more than 7.1 million gallons of oil as well as approximately 35 minor spills of less than 10,000 gallons.

    Where in this Coast Guard report does it say it didn’t come from offshore drilling?

  2. J.R.No Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    That’s rich, coming from you, Eileen.

    We all know you’re not above it.

    Regardless, if you think “moonbat” is offensive, you’d be amazed at some of the other names you’re called.

  3. Jeremy HintonNo Gravatar on July 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    (Corrected repost, if you care to delete the original Jim - sure wish there was a preview)

    Actually, according to the 2007 Pipeline Damage Assessment from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf of Mexico report done by Det Norske Veritas (those pesky Norwegians again) for the US DotI Mineral Management Services, there were about 124 spills in the Gulf, with a volume of roughly 17,700 barrels (~750,000 gallons). However the impact to the shoreline from these spills was reported as minor compared to the damage from shore-side incidents. I didn’t notice if there were any statements about damage to the ecology of the gulf waters themselves.

    It does make you wonder though, where there are offshore drilling platforms and pipelines, doesn’t it follow then that there would be considerable on-shore processing and storage facilities nearby? And that (in the event of a hurricane) its these facilities that may actually pose the greater environmental risk?

  4. Snoop Diggity-DANG-DawgNo Gravatar on July 18th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    St. Eileen, do you prefer the Chinese off-shore drilling outside of our territorial water?

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