The mere existence of liars like Limbaugh and Corsi suggest that Americans are short on brains and long on being influenced by storytelling.

Why are we so stupid?

Perhaps because Americans spend WAY too much time watching television.

What if Alaska contained 100 times as much petroleum as Saudi Arabia? Would that mean we would soon see dollar-a-gallon gas again and go back to commuting in two and three ton metal behemoths? How about a 7 mpg RV in which to tour the USA during your next vacation or after you retire?

Knowing what we do now about the climatic effects of burning fossil fuels, we would be truly foolish to reverse our current trend toward greater conservation and efficiency. We have but taken the first baby-step toward the realization that our present economy is in no way sustainable over the course of decades, much less centuries or millennia. Instead of squandering what is left to us through wasteful consumption and over-population, we need to find ways of living that are consistent with the mechanisms that keep the Earth a habitable planet.

What's tragic is the low threshhold of inconvenience it took to create this overnight offshore drilling sensation.

Offshore drilling was banned for good reason. It's ecologically very dangerous. But all it took to start the drumbeat for drilling was presidential politics and gasoline prices comparable to Europe.

What ecological throat are we willing to cut if gas prices double again, fuel is rationed or manufacturing is limited by supplies?

Unfortuntely, once real fire-and-brimstone style fuel hardship hits Americans, we'll render our dead parents into diesel and drill every available wilderness to keep the gerbil wheel going.

[That's what Peter Diziles wrote.]

Why not write, "Such claims are lies, cynical, preposterous lies."?????

Arguing against these crazy myths needs to be accompanied by an explanation that everybody can understand about why the myths exist.

The Republicans aren't shy about fabricating crazy motives for leftist realism that recognizes the limits inherent in a diminishing supply of petroleum worldwide - http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=205272 - :

Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) says it has not escaped Democrats what the cost of gasoline and loss of jobs are doing to the country.

"This is their agenda," Bachmann states bluntly. "I know it is hard to believe, it's hard to fathom -- but this is 'mission accomplished' for them," she asserts. "They want Americans to take transit and move to the inner cities. They want Americans to move to the urban core, live in tenements, [and] take light rail to their government jobs. That's their vision for America."

Bachmann predicts gasoline will rise above $5 a gallon if Barack Obama is elected president.

Shame on her!

So - aside from trying to scare people away from Dems and Obama, what other interests are served by pretending that the world is an ever-flowing font of clean, cheap oil just begging to exploit?

This "right-wing noise machine" gets a great deal of funding from the oil industry. While the oil industry has been enjoying profits the likes of which have no historical precedence in human history, they always want more.

Handing ANWR over to an oil company for exploration and extraction is a government giveaway of the highest order to whatever oil company/companies win the concession. Even after investing billions in the physical infrastructure in ANWR to support the enterprise, the oil they bring to market will reap new untold profit. ANWR is just another cookie jar for the oil industry to get its hands on.

The same goes for offshore drilling. As a nation we decided that we didn't want oil drilling to occur off the vast majority of our coastline. (The major exception to this is the non-Florida coasts along the Gulf of Mexico). Every concession awarded to "big oil" to drill somewhere new off the coast of the United States is a winning proposition.

Through their lobbyists and their funding of conservative think-tanks and media, the oil industry is attempting to dupe the American people into handing them MORE.

Your average man-on-the-street Republican should be able to understand a corporate "giveaway" when confronted with one. Explain it to them.

Saturn's moon, Titan has a methane rich atmosphere and methane is a product of life???

RIGHT!

Massive herds of TItanic Moon Buffalos!

Neptune has a methane rich atmosphere and methane is a product of life???

RIGHT!

The king of the Seas and his many minions expelling fish farts and planktons decaying, but of course!

Uranus has a methane rich atmosphere and methane is a product of life???

RIGHT!

Well, everyone knows your anus expels methane gas.

there is always the possibility that (average intelligence - dysfunctional education) / self indulgence = extinction.

this could be mother nature's way of getting rid of a rash on the north american continent.

of my archaeology days. On a certain day during each digging season, we'd invite the public to come out and see what we were doing. They'd walk around, peering into our excavation -- usually from two to ten feet deep. Inevitably, some genius would ask, "Why'd they live down there?" If we were feeling masochistic, we'd ask, "Where?" "Down in those holes!"

Ug.

Thus, he must assert that he's not just right in doing so, but righteous.

I'm guessing that the group of people willing to believe Corsi's "non-organic oil" blatherings overlaps significantly with the group of people who believe that fossil records are one of Satan's little practical jokes.

Methane is also found in interstellar gas clouds - also abundant with life. You know, those things that attached themselves to that flying pancake in Star Wars.

RIGHT!!!

Oil is found at depths lower than sedimentary rock and in places where downward seepage (it seeps up not down) is unlikely to occur.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdcRX35zQx0

The author is a Salon writer. It isn't Greenwald so . . .

NEED I SAY MORE?

Jounalsim propaganda justifying high oil prices - WHO PAID FOR THIS SHILL???

Anyone remember the Sinclair Dinosaur?

I haven't heard any of those broadcasts from those ignoramuses - I find ridiculing the ones here quite satisfactory.

Thanks for the laughs Joan!