Push the Prius Envy Button
Aug 13th, 2008 by director
You know why the Republicans really want to do offshore drilling? It’s because they’ve got Prius envy.
The Republicans are just all burned up, hotter than global warming, that environmentalists thought up a good idea to make our economy run more efficiently and cleanly, and made it work. The hybrid car is an expression of environmentalism moving America forward, and the Republicans were caught just sitting on their rear ends next to their Lincoln Town Cars, saying that everything should continue to be done the old way.
So, now, the Republicans are trying to show that they can do something new: New offshore oil drilling!
The trouble is that this new offshore oil drilling is kind of like new Tide, now with extra cleaning power - it isn’t really new at all. It’s just the same old thing.
The old offshore oil drilling was dirty and inefficient and vulnerable to hurricanes. The new offshore drilling would be dirty and inefficient and vulnerable to hurricanes. The old offshore drilling couldn’t keep pace with our energy needs. The new offshore drilling wouldn’t keep pace with our energy needs either.
This offshore drilling plan is the last gasp of a dinosaur economy of rusted industrialism. What we need is a new vision that can do better than offshore drilling. More of the same will just bring us more of the same, and more of the same means more failure.
The time for new offshore drilling is history.
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