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Drill Baby Drill

You’re Going To Need Those Holes For Your Corpses

    [Tampa, FL 10/06/08] As seemingly mindless throngs echo the “drill baby drill” chant like so many corporate robots, I pour over reports of all the oil hurricane Ike poured into the nearby Gulf of Mexico. Ike caused at least a half million gallons of crude to pour into the Gulf (the worst Gulf spill since Katrina). 

    Living in Tampa, FL, I would be directly affected by the lifting of moratoriums to drill for oil off our coasts. I’m not crying “not in my backyard”, I’m crying that we move into the technologies of tomorrow rather than this incessant backwards thinking desire to continue to power the dirty old internal combustion engine. 

    The moment I heard the “drill baby drill” chant I fired up my laptop and wrote it as a line of dialogue delivered by my villian in part two of my “Apocalypse Near” book trilogy. Here’s the dialogue as it appears in the book between the inter-dimensional villian and the protagonist. My protagonist is on a mission to enlighten the humans to their oncoming doom and how they might avoid it: (more…)

An InfoTorial by E. Reporting for The United States Media Corps

Originally published on The Conscious Consumers’ Network  on 07/24/04 

The current enemies of the industrialized nations mostly recruit their soldiers from among the disenfranchised populations of largely non-industrialized nations. Some of their propaganda charges that Western, industrialized nations use disproportionate amounts of natural resources and the cheaper labor of the needy to produce their wealth which is in turn used to produce weapons to proliferate their policies, goods, services and politics. In the process, the biosphere (which all humans must share) is unfairly being exploited. These criteria (among others) are spun to hang the title of “The Great Satan” on the western industrialized nations. Perhaps the larger crime is that the industrialized nations are basically loading bullets into the weapons of their sworn enemies by buying their oil which also has the effect of destroying the environment. It’s a lose-lose situation for the U.S. If Big Oil & our government were really smart they’d be investing all the money we spend on Arabian oil into sustainable / renewable energy technology and selling that technology to the world. (A win-win situation). (more…)