The impression I've been getting from media reports about Congress is that an energy bill is less likely to pass in the wake of the BP oil catastrophe.
I shouldn't be surprised by anything our elected representatives do after all these years of watching them, but I am. If ever there were an impetus for trying to reduce the country's need for oil, you'd think the possibility of an entire region's economic destruction from a single (albeit massive) accident resulting from trying to pump the stuff would be it.
Even as tar balls and worse show up on beaches, marshlands are being destroyed and waterfowl are being killed, the Senators from that region are saying to the President "Leave our oil drillers alone!" Yes, yes, there are jobs at stake, but there are whole industries at stake too, when you consider fishing and tourism there.
You can't have it both ways, guys. Not for long, anyway.
Posted by Linkmeister at June 15, 2010 07:40 AM | TrackBack