“Drill here, drill now” takes on new meaning
Thursday, September 11th, 2008One of the big fire-up issues at the recent Republican convention was the whole off-shore drilling push. I kept hearing these chants and seeing signs, “Drill here, drill now!” The chanting in St. Paul seemed a bit inane to me. While I’m not much on the nuances of geology, I’m pretty sure that the Twin Cities would be a poor bet for placing a well. But you never know when you roll the dice drilling for oil, I guess.
Looks like Big Oil’s push operated on all fronts, so to speak, with these revelations from the U.S. Department of Interior that its oil and gas lease collections people were literally in bed with Big Oil. In bed, doing cocaine and lining the pockets of the regulators. Seems like the whole drill here, drill now thing is another Big Oil ruse. Or maybe it’s more that Big Oil, as Ricky Ricardo famously said, simply has “got some ’splainin’ to do.”
David Sugerman