Sarah Palin Blames BP Oil Spill on Fussy Environmentalists

Just where Sarah Palin’s logic generates from is a nebulous, national mystery, one on par with understanding the lofty arrogance of BP CEO Tony Haywood. Here’s a comparison for you: the latter “would like his life back”: the former blames the spill on environmentalists. It’s as though we’re being spoken to by martians with only a primer on the present reality of human beings.

And so it played out yesterday with Alaska’s paranoid chatterbox. True to her MO, Palin took to Facebook again, this time with an open letter to “extreme ‘environmentalists’ who hypocritically protest domestic energy production onshore and offshore.” In short, she remarks that it’s environmentalists’ fault the rig explosion happened in the first place.

We all remember the controversial movement in D.C. to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. The idea was, the more petroleum extracted from our own country, the less we’ll depend on foreign sources for oil. The Republicans argued that this, in combo with nuclear, coal and green sources, would save our dollars from ending up in non-friendly dictatorship countries, thereby protecting us from pivotal dependency issues down the road.

Well, we can’t drill our way out of this mess. According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA), the United States consumes roughly 19,500 thousand barrels of oil a day. Presently, we produce just under five million barrels daily, which is a quarter of what we use for petroleum energy. We are the largest user of oil, yet our territory only has two percent of the world’s remaining oil. It’s clear we cannot drill our way to energy independence.

Which gets me back to Miss Lady “Drill, Baby, Drill”, Inc. What she says on her letter to environmentalists is propaganda for manipulating children and  paupers. Re her mommy-tongued introduction:

“There is nothing “clean and green” about your efforts. Look, here’s the deal: when you lock up our land, you outsource jobs and opportunity away from America and into foreign countries that are making us beholden to them. Some of these countries don’t like America. Some of these countries don’t care for planet earth like we do – as evidenced by our stricter environmental standards.”

Yes, those same strict regulations that stopped BP from not only blowing up the Gulf of Mexico, but allow the Trans-Alaska pipeline—owned by BP—to leak five thousand barrels per week, and they didn’t stop the BP plant from exploding in 2005, which killed fifteen people. Those “stricter environmental standards.”

So, if the Gulf spill wasn’t the fault of our government and BP, then where should we place the blame, Palin? Oh yeah, on the tree-hugging hippies who wanted to keep drilling out of ANWR, for no good reason at all. I couldn’t come up with one… But, then again, I’m not as smart as the folksy princess is:

“With your nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you’re doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. Your hypocrisy is showing. You’re not preventing environmental hazards; you’re outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.

“Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.”

Forget that alternatives to oil are nascent in her letter. The truth, apparently, is: environmentalists hate planet earth! The mask is off, let’s get ‘em! It was Robert Redford who done it! Honestly though, Palin, your statement says nothing salient to help in the matter at hand. You’ve only thrown a red herring into public consciousness for personal gain, to stay in whatever fight you’re fighting, and sound as though you’re ready to spread Alaska’s legs open to any volatile petro-company that’s interested.

To close off, the former vice presidential candidate consoles us with this gem of insight:

“We need permission to drill in safer areas, including the uninhabited arctic land of ANWR. It takes just a tiny footprint – equivalent to the size of LA’s airport – to tap America’s rich and plentiful oil and gas up north. ANWR’s drilling footprint is like a postage stamp on a football field.”

Haven’t we heard something like that recently? Oh yeah! BP CEO calling the Gulf spill “relatively tiny” compared to the rest of the ocean… Well, that’s reassuring. Drill, baby, drill!