Michael Ennis in his article ‘Drill Team” intertwines several themes, specifically the history of the legislation on offshore drilling, the introduction to it as a campaign issue by McCain, the interaction over the issue by the candidates and their “flipflaps,” given poll numbers, a serious discussion of the oil problem over the course of next twenty years, and a “true picture” of the oil reserves in the U.S. It is interesting that American favor offshore drilling two to one, when McCain brought up this bogus during the spike in gas prices. Now that the price of oil is down below 90 dollars per barrel and all bets are off, in my opinion, on energy independence and alternative sources of energy. Ennis also mentions that the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming has more oil than all the reserves of Saudi Arabia. Since this statement was in the Texas Monthly, I have no reason to doubt it. But just as in the case of L.A., it is impossible to level these states and establish a huge oil field. By the way, the oil offshore would take ten year to reach the consumer and would only amount to a small addition to our oil supply.
So what does this have to do with Texas? Texas would have to decide whether to drill more offshore. But the connection that Ennis makes to Texas is that Texans have stopped buying the Ford F. series of pickups, which has been a best seller in Texas for over 31 years. Remember everything in Texas is Rouged and Big. Instead Texans are buying the Honda Civic which is Pretty. In other words, the gas crisis has feminized Texans and caused a cultural earthquake. I might mention that the article is a quick and dirty way of learning about the energy crisis and the candidate’s political duplicity.
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