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Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, just a general rant against parrots.

I'm a bit late jumping into this thread, Uncle Bob, but as is always the case, your contribution is a good one.

Regarding the "parrots" among us, they gripe the devil out of me, too, and they are particularly annoying when the subject of oil (or any other form of energy, for that matter) comes up.

A couple of current "parrotisms" are "Drill, Baby, Drill!" and "Drill Here, Drill Now!". I hate the fact that these particular parrots are of the same political inclination that I am.

A few politicians, of course, have knowledge about oil production but most don't, and they, like the general public, seem to think that if restraints were lifted, the oil companies would rush right out and start poking holes tomorrow.

Whoopee! Immediate energy independence! 50 cent gas is right around the corner!

It ain't that easy.

In a recent Ed Wallace column (and I don't have it handy) he explains that if somebody wanted to put a platform in the Gulf he would be put on a wait-list for a drill ship for at least four years. Then he'd wait for the platform to be constructed and put in place, and that's not an overnight procedure either. Ed says that oil companies have to look years into the future for a well to go into production.

The present administration wants to rid the world of the curse of coal.

Nuclear, of course, will make us all glow in the dark, so that's out.

Comparatively, solar cells and wind are ineffectual.

We're in deep doo doo.


Jim