On Friday April 30th, Silly Sarah Palin updated her Facebook page with a letter titled “Domestic Drilling: Why we can still believe”.
In the third paragraph of this letter, Sarah Palin states “Alaskans understand the tragedy of an oil spill, and we’ve taken steps to do all we can to prevent another Exxon tragedy, but we are still pro-development“. Really Sarah? REALLY?????
May I remind her that this spill happened 21 years ago? For a woman to state that after 21 years we are still in pro-development in creating safety standards and protocols only means the government is only dragging its feet because they are in bed with big oil, and being paid off so these corporations can put profits before safety.
I know a lot of you are going to defend this woman to your last dying breath, but what interests me even more is an interview she had with Larry Kudrow on June 26th, 2008. Here is an excerpt from the interview:
Kudlow: Why don’t we just liberate, and decontrol, and deregulate the whole bloody energy business – whether it’s oil, gas, shale, nuclear, coal, natural gas, as well as wind and solar – why don’t we just decontrol, deregulate, go for an America first energy policy? Get independent of Saudi Arabia? America first. Create all of these millions of high paying jobs. Why isn’t anybody talking about that in this race? That’s the natural, Reaganesque thing to do. Isn’t it?
Palin: Yeah absolutely! You’re hitting the nail right on the head. That’s what so many of us normal Americans are asking. The same thing. Why aren’t the candidates talking like that? Where we can secure America and we can be more independent when we talk about energy sources if we could drill domestically.
Again I say, REALLY SARAH, REALLY??????
How the hell can this woman state that we are in “pro-development” with safety standards and safety protocols to protect our habitats and the people of this country when she was stating in this interview she wants to deregulate and decontrol the energy sector?
Again I will ask why this woman and Senator McCain are not in the gulf cleaning up this mess they so eagerly fought and chanted for? One thing I have learned in my life, be careful what you pray for, you may just get it.
When we put money before humanity and before the environment, this is what we will get.
BP's 52-page exploration plan for the Deepwater Horizon well, filed with the federal Minerals Management Service, says repeatedly that it was "unlikely that an accidental surface or subsurface oil spill would occur from the proposed activities."
And while the company conceded that a spill would impact beaches, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas, it argued that "due to the distance to shore (48 miles) and the response capabilities that would be implemented, no significant adverse impacts are expected."
I guess Sarah Palin is right, we should deregulate and decontrol the whole energy sector; we all know they have our best interests at hand.