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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (29153)	6/10/2010 2:48:24 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

PO will become a reality if governments have no regulations at all. ANWAR is a bump on da tail. eia.doe.gov From what I've seen and read, coverage has been pretty abysmal across the board. I know BP is verrrrry bad, Exxon Chevron Shell etc are respectable enuf to avoid mention, Bush Cheney Obama are verrrry bad, oil spills we can see from our house are verrrrry bad and they are the only ones that ever happen in the entire world, and BP is drilling because they are greedy. I'm told all this by people who fly across the country and then take a boat out to film nobody doing nothing, and, instead of calling 911OilSplotch, they motor back to where they can ask a telegenic governor why Obama hasn't killed the well yet, never bothering to figure out that this well was being drilled so they could fly across the country... that well wasn't for them, cuz they aren't oilcoholics. That well was for greed. Oh, Happy Day...finally some media exposure that gets to the heart of this. Only took 50 days. Wasn't on a news channel . Wasn't even on American TV. My gal Gail... jografy on June 9, 2010 - 11:25am I just saw Gail being interviewed on BNN (the Business News Network here in Canada). This network is less cheerleading and a bit more rational than CNBC, though still believing in business as usual. Gail made a very clear presentation of the oil conundrum and the interviwer was not hostile. If anything though the message that all of this new expensive production will not offset the decline in conventional oil production and export needs to be made more directly and very clearly. Gail alluded to it but it was kind of passed over. It is very apparent that the MSM are now trying to bring the PO debate forwards and it should be a point of pride to you rational people running TOD that they are turning here. Perhaps TOD and ASPO can now try to make some coordinated effort to work with the media who want to present the issue. I think the problem the MSM have is that they must gradually go from accepting the Yurgin/economists version to one more resource reality based. If they reverse quickly their own credibility will suffer and the message will be lost. Again, great job Gail! [new] Gail the Actuary on June 9, 2010 - 1:36pm Thanks for mentioning this. The interviewer clearly had been reading TOD, so could ask leading questions. I had been told ahead of time that the topic that they would want to talk about was resource constrainst; later they changed it to arctic drilling, but still ended up with some resource constraint issues. Glad you liked it. I am more of a writer than a TV personality. This is a link to the clip. watch.bnn.ca The segment is called, "Can't we drill somewhere else?" I noticed they added some written banners also.