Can the Sierra Club be that dumb?
By Brian Kirwin | Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | PoliticsReading a story in the Virginian-Pilot about Rep. Scott Rigell’s bill to force lease sales for offshore drilling off Virginia’s coast and read this little tidbit.
“It looks like I’ll have to get my no-drilling bumper stickers out again,” Glen Besa, director of the Sierra Club of Virginia, said Wednesday when told of Rigell’s bill.
Hey, Glen the Genius! Exactly where are you putting these bumper stickers? Cars? Cars that require fuel to go anywhere?
Anyone who drives a car with a “no-drilling bumper sticker” has got to win Hypocrite of the Year.
Unless it’s the plan of the Sierra Club to only place bumper stickers on electric cars, but even then, they oppose the way electricity is generated, too.
And besides, bumper stickers on electric cars get so smudged by the tire tracks of real cars.
No-Drilling bumper stickers! That’s right up there with a protest singer wailing about saving the trees on a wooden guitar.
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7 Responses to "Can the Sierra Club be that dumb?"
Drilling is OK but NOT off the Virginia coast.
Believe I read some time ago that even the Gov. doesn’t want that.
I love those no drill stickers on electric cars.. Ironic that they use more barrels of oil before they left the dealer lot than it takes to fuel my 3/4 SUV. The cost of mining and processing the materials in an electric car is staggering..
Sierra Club threw me out or a meeting I was invited to present natural gas fueled vehicles when I got into an exchange favoring nuke energy.. Total hip o crats
“McDonnell, who has forcefully advocated for offshore exploration, said the issue is ‘very much bipartisan’ with Sens. Mark Warner and Jim Webb, both Democrats, taking up Virginia’s efforts to tap oil and gas deposits off the coast.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2012/02/salazar-mcdonnell-discuss-va-offshore-oil/2160226#ixzz1lFCG61hP
If the Sierra Club was around 100+ years ago they would have decried that electricity will put candle makers out of business
.. and cars put buggy whip manufacturers out of business.
DoD has a new mission from the SOTU: “And I’m proud to announce that the Department of Defense, the world’s largest consumer of energy, will make one of the largest commitments to clean energy in history — with the Navy purchasing enough capacity to power a quarter of a million homes a year.”
Salazar says in the Washington Examiner article: “The major challenge in terms of doing the Virginia triangle is really a conflict with defense,” Salazar said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We have worked with the Department of Defense and they have showed us where the conflicts are.
“We believe the Virginia triangle is not ready for development because of the military conflicts,” he added.
Since the new DoD mission is “clean energy” (natural gas) and there is no longer a “military conflict” based on Obama’s SOTU directive, shouldn’t the Navy get busy letting contracts for drilling?
Actually, I look at the national Sierra Club with a great deal of respect. At the national level, the leadership is not a group of extremists who are impossible to please.
I am not not a member of the Sierra Club just as I am not a member of the NRA (National Rifle Association). I draw the NRA into it because each of these two receive condemnation from some that is not warranted.
I am not going to automatically side with either side on any issue, but both organizations have won my respect and when they speak, I listen up.
But I am listening to the national leadership and not individual members. Both organizations have unreasonable citizens included in their membership rolls and you have got to occasionally filter the wheat from the chaff.
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