Environmental whack-jobs sue
if they find one dead rat
within a thousand meters of
a petro-driller's plat.
The Greenpeace mind-set seems to thrive
wherever gnats are found,
their precious little habitats
trump crude-oil in the ground.
Our hands are tied by spotted owls
and vermin small and large
Sierra Club would have a fit
if I was left in charge!
For I would man the dozer's
ev'ry roughneck I'd impress,
they'd perforate the wilderness,
"Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less!"
A contest entry
- Energy Crisis, again. by mwilson50.
850 points, ended August 11, 8 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
When it's time, the truth will be known.
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Nice little poem Jim. Funny as well as political, although i'm not sure how much is jest and how much is real. thanks for the read.
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Oh my! A poem for taking to Poetry Planet and letting people think about something really smart.
Thank you very very much for sharing, James. 
Fine writing! 
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Thank you, Mel!
You're the sweetest!
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There was a young man with a drill
Who punctured the earth for a thrill
He made a deep chasm
Filled with real ectoplasm
And they're all looking out for him, still.
Or as Gerard Manley Hopkins put it:
"If we but knew what we do, when we delve and hew, hack and rack the growing green"
And that's from memory. Nice poem by the way. And some really, really interesting comments an a'
Best Wishes. I'm off tae top up the caur at the pumps.
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It rhymes, but
I wouldn't want to live in that world for sure. Interesting write nevertheless. -
You're always on 'top' of things hahaha lets keep this comment clean hahahaha a beauty of a write filled with stuff; I adore it good luck in the contest lol
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Um...,you must own Exxon Mobil stock.Just kidding of course. Drilling won't benefit the US for a mighty long time. It's costly, no quick fix, endangers us and the environment. Not to mention it's a fossil fuel of limited supply and pollutes our world. Short sighted idea at best. Having lived through the oil and gas rationing of the seventy and the drilling of our Alaskan pipeline snafu. We could only buy our fuel on even and or odd days then decreed by last name meant to conserve while waiting to reap the pipelines oil. The US turned around and sold that oil to the then(USSR). We got nothing but buffaloed. The point being. We needed to develop other fuel sources then,and still do. All I see is a benefit to already over compensated oil stock holders and their company CEO's. Even our own governmental departments agree. (The Energy Information Administration says that even if both coasts were opened, prices would not begin to drop until 2030. The only real beneficiaries will be the oil companies that are trying to lock up every last acre of public land before their friends in power depart office.) You've composed a witty well versed fun poem. But are a little fuzzy on the facts.
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Watching Glen Beck interview an ex- Shell CEO by the name of Hoffmeister the other night. He says a lot of infrastructure is already in place where they've drilled the holes and capped the wells (for bureaucratic reasons) but could be up and running in some areas within months. Other places would take slightly longer.
After the Northridge quake in '94 a section of the 10 freeway in Los Angeles collapsed. The city estimated the time it would take to complete the repair and offered the contractor a substantial bonus for every day they shaved off that schedule. Here is the (brief) story in the words of the contractor.
What this tells me is that private industry, if properly motivated, will pull rabbits out of hats that you never thought imaginable.
And ma'am... my facts are clear as a bell.
Here is an excerpt from the Congressional Record regarding the Democrats "D.R.I.L.L." bill, HR 6515 which went down to defeat:
"Mr. PEARCE. The gentleman asks a question whose fault is it. Let's read down through a list of observations: Wilderness Society v. Wisely, 16 leases, 11,000 acres stopped; Montana Wilderness Alliance v. Fry, stops three leases, limits additional 9; Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Norton, injunction covering 93 percent of the resource area; Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership challenges total of 127 APDs, applications for permits to drill; Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. Kempthorne stopped 60 wells; Potash Association stopped 72 wells; Biodiversity Conservation Alliance suspends leases; Wyoming Outdoor Council v. BLM, 11 parcels BLM stopped; National Audubon Society challenging the Resource Operational Division, and then we have Pennaco Energy v. U.S.; Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance; Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.
The reason that oil and gas exploration is stopped, the reason that we have 68 million acres is because of litigation and excess regulation, many of which do nothing, nothing to improve the environment. Most are bureaucratic delays.
I would suggest that the gentleman should--maybe if he thinks that he can produce oil more cheaply and more effectively than the people who are producing it, maybe he should be there and actually be drilling some wells and find out for himself the difficulty of producing."
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Yeah, our greed will deplete the rest of the world before tapping into our own resources. It's like my two dogs wanting what the other has and letting the bowls of food sit as they eye each other.
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Hmmm... ok...
I suppose you realise I'm a fully-paid-up member of Bunny Huggers International?
I appreciate well-written poetry, though. That much you knew already.
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Well, for you I'll make an exception. I could seriously get into hugging some bunnies. I think I'll call Mr. Hefner as soon as I hit "Submit Reply"
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Yeah, them too.
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