so there's this terrible oil spill in the gulf of mexico that is trashing the coastline and ecosystem of several southern states. plus it's not really a spill, but rather an underwater gush. a spill, like oil coming from a tanker, implies that there is a relatively small amount of oil that is threatening to leak out. what's happening here is the underground oil source is gushing freely into the gulf.
the gush is only happening because people tried to extract oil from the offshore oil fields. so the scope of the disaster poses a real political problem to the "drill baby drill" faction. governor schwarzenegger has already turned against offshore drilling, and other governors who have historically been the biggest proponents of drilling also happen to be from states who will bear the brunt of this disaster.
to take the blame off their beloved offshore drilling, conservative pundits are floating the theory that the disaster was deliberate. that is, rather than being the result of the negligence of the oil company or the inherent risks in offshore extraction, people like rush limbaugh, former bush press secretary dana perino and fox news personality eric bolling are hinting that the gush might have been the result of deliberate sabotage.
but that just shows how stupid they are. isn't offshore drilling just as bad an idea if the gush is due to negligence of sabotage? in this age of terrorism, wouldn't the potential for sabotage be yet another reason that offshore drilling is a really bad idea?
if you're going to come up with a conspiracy theory to suit your political purposes, maybe you should make sure it actually suits your political purposes.
