Today the Energy Committee continued hearings focusing on exploring new areas for oil exploration. One fellow brought with him a $100 million shale sample, which was acquired 10,000 feet under the sea. Testimony was heard from a rep from Chevron Deepwater, and Devon Energy. Also, there was a rep from the Sierra Club. For the environmentalists, protecting the environment is sort of like a real estate game in itself. They want to protect it for their fantasy life.
Testimony was either in fear of pollution through undersea drilling or excitement at the prospect of opening new areas of oil exploration. In the middle of the hearing, Sen. Mary Landrieu (Dem, Louisiana) asked the Sierra Club guy to take out his calculator and figure out how many windmills would be theoretically necessary to provide electric power for his state of California.
After the testimony, the guy from Devon energy was making fun of wind energy, saying that these things are bird killers, and scare away certain types of marine birds, because they think the wind towers are trees which might house predatory birds (eagles or seahawks). When a Senator was briefed about the fraud of ethanol production, her response was that it was just the corn lobby.
By the way: the fraud of ethanol production and using it for gasoline is that 1. you are going to starve people to death 2. it takes more energy to provide a gallon of ethanol, through fertilizer, farm machinery, etc, than it takes to produce it. It is not really an environmental measure, it is a war economy measure to provide a small amount of auto fuel under conditions of all-out Middle east and global genocide and war. More on geezer site.
