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The lovely and gracious Sharon Cobb today posted, without comment (other than to say 'logic' and 'convoluted') Sarah Palin's attack on extreme environmentalists who force us to have to drill at risky depths in order to keep our nation supplied with oil.

My reply to Sharon follows:

Sarah Palin is right. Why else do we have to drill 5,000 feet below the ocean's surface, drill thousands of feet below that once you're down there, to tap the oil the our very societal structure requires for it's day-to-day operations? Other than crazy whackjob enviroweenies who force them that far offshore and down?

Tell you what. Let 'em give up every bit of the thin veneer of civilization that depends on oil as energy, all of it. Computers included. Air conditioning, vehicles, food not grown withing a horseback-ride distance, all the modern conveniences, then get back to me.

The only people in America who have right to complain about oil production and it's associated risks (risks that are exacerbated by the whacko's restrictions) are the Amish.

We should reassess our complaints, given our dependence. If you want to complain, lose the dependence first, return to around 1850's level of technology.

You first.

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Read Sarah's comments at the link:

Sharoncobb.com: Sarah Palin Blames Enniornmentalists For Gulf Disaster