Bush and his cronies are up to it again, this time they are rallying support along with their fellow big-oil executive friends to lift the ban on off-shore drilling.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/washington/19drill.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
Instead of lifting this ban, they should be working towards lifting the ban on mass stupidity and short-sightedness. Our addiction to "oil" is exactly that, an addiction. Addiction is a self-feeding disease. It's painful, it's tough. If you can only get a little of substance to feed your addiction, you would feel a lot better...until the next wave of craving hits. And with each wave of craving and feeding, the subsequent craving will be that more pronounced and it'll take that much more feeding to satisfy.
Opening up our wilderness (what's left of it) to drilling for more oil is not a solution. It is not a short term solution because "short term solutions" are A) oxymorons B)impossible to achieve given the length of time to find, drill, refine oil. It is said it would take 5-10 yrs before the 1st barrel of oil is produced should the ban be lifted.
It is not a long term solution because it moves us towards further addiction. Bush and his cronies should stop supplying the addicted country with this black drug. We need to get rid of the drug dealers and overcome this addiction.
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