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The Oil Crisis Is (Still) Not Like A Toothache: Fighting The "Drill Now" Rhetoric

by: MBoz

Mon Jul 14, 2008 at 10:34

Crossposted at Boztopia and the Huffington Post.

So there's this sudden faux-grassroots movement on the right to open up all of our wildlife reserves and our shores for oil drilling, under the pretense that it'll reduce our dependence on foreign oil and lower prices at the pump. It's even got a catchy, easily memorable slogan: "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less." And it's all the rage in East Wingnuttia.

Too bad that it's completely wrong and as far from the truth as one can get while still being in the same space/time continuum.

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