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In the 1950s and 1960s, we used to have oil spills in Lake Michigan, from tankers sinking or just from ships cleaning out their bilges and tanks. Nasty globs of nasty stuff used to wash up and foul the beaches.
I have looked out on Lake Michigan all my life. For the past fifteen years at least, the horizon almost always (say, 360 days per year) has awful brown smog that it did not have before.
Now, McCain wants to allow oil rigs in Lake Michigan?
Oil's time is past. We still can pump it to make plastics and such, for a while. But it's over. The first step to recovery is quitting. The first step toward absolution is confession.
