In a stellar example of the left’s short-sighted vision for the future of our nation, a ‘protest’ was organized yesterday by the Sierra Club and other ill-willed organizations who have the national security of the United States firmly outside their primary interests.
Thankfully, the Virginian-Pilot was willing to cover and embellish accordingly: (amazing how the Tea Party gathering is ‘a few hundred’ but the Pilot managed to get a hard number, must have been counting as they stretched out along the boardwalk)
To protest of offshore drilling and to promote clean energy, about 1,000 people held hands along the Oceanfront on Saturday.
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“The Gulf Coast oil spill disaster provides a vivid reminder that the price of offshore oil is far too high,” said Chelsea Harnish, a regional campaign coordinator for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.“What our great commonwealth needs is a permanent ban on offshore drilling.”
Actually, what our great commonwealth needs is more jobs, something that offshore drilling will bring, along with billions in infrastructure, private investment and growth. Clean energy is decades and tens of billions of dollars away from being a feasible alternative, while we have countless natural resources that will help wean our reliance on Middle Eastern oil, making ignoring or refusing to consider offshore drilling a national security risk. And, most importantly, what we don’t need is hollow protests from individuals who utilize fear and substitute it for logic.
Yes, there was a spill. Yes, it’s been a problem. But we don’t ban flying after a plane crash. We don’t ban automobiles after a car crash. We didn’t ban New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
So why exactly would we ban something that will bring thousands of jobs, billions of dollars and potentially provide a realistic financial windfall for transportation after one incident?
Wake up.
