This Sunday’s On the Record will feature a discussion about offshore drilling. Joining host Joel Rubin will be Virginia Beach State Senator Frank Wagner, who favors lifting the moratorium, and two environmentalists, Hampton University professor Benjamin Cuker and local Sierra Club conservation coordinator Eileen Levandoski.
Catch OTR at 11:30am on WVEC. If you miss the airing, it will be available on the website on Monday.
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As usual, the media gangs up on the sensible conservative 2 to 1, and as usual, the 1 wins anyway.
Quite your crying and go buy another Regnery Publishing book of lying BS.
I am shocked that the spokesperson reinforcing your views was deemed the winner. Just shocked. Wagner was just another bloviating right winger tyring to intimidate by wagging his finger in the good professor’s face. What a jerk.
I thank Bush for destroying the right wing electorally for a generation in this great republic.
As usual, a Democrat’s response is no more than negativity, attacks, and insults.
Brilliant!
That’s what idiotic utterances deserve, Brian. Surely you should know that by now.
As you should know
I finally got to watch last night. It was pretty much as expected. Senator Wagner and Eileen Levandoski were at our Tidewater Libertarian Party meeting Saturday and I had opportunity to talk to both at greater length on the subject.
The bottom line from the two Environmentalists is that they don’t want the oil or gas found because they don’t want it used, believing that any fossil fuel use contributes to GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!! Oooooooohhhhhhhh.
All the stuff about the Navy, risk, pollution and the rest are just smoke screens to cover their real motivation, which is to make petroleum so expensive that it can’t be used.
I wish just for once the Enviro Activists would just be honest about their intent and stop advancing what they know to be false arguments.
If they want to leave the fossil fuels in the ground, without regard to the hardship that will cause to the millions who simply don’t have the funds to buy next generation cars that run on plastic grocery bags or dilithium crystals,and who, at least for the next 15 years, will remain dependent on petroleum for their way of life, then they should make their claim straight out that their goals justify that sacrifice.
Still waiting for the video to be posted. 😦
Enjoyed the Gov. Holton interview, though.
It’s up there now.
Well, the environmentalists really didn’t have much, did they? Trying to say there’s not enough oil and natural gas out there, when exploration has been banned for years, is mighty weak. The whole Global Warming schtick is pretty weak, too, considering the “global warming” observed on Mars and Jovian satellites, and the tremendous correlation with sunspot activity.
The Navy problem is quite interesting. Their objections do raise concerns for drilling off of Virginia. However, there is no similar objection for most of the Atlantic coast, yet the left wll oppose that, too. Besides, isn’t Oceana NAS being closed anyway? That should reduce the problem somewhat, but I don’t know how much. (Supersonic flights were cited as a reason for the Navy’s opposition.)
I also love the “Navy Opposes VA Offshore Drilling. Period. End of Debate.” attitude from the left. When have they ever said that when the Navy opposed their ideas?
At our TLP meeting, Sen Wagner told us that he has discussed the conflicts with representatives from the Navy and they are not opposed to the exploration and drilling so long as certain requirements, which are agreeable to the oil and gas companies, are met.
But the past opposition from the Navy is only a smoke screen, and has little to do with the real motivations of the opponents.
This whole debate gets miscast as pro vs anti environment. That is a false conflict. No one wants a bad environment. But a good environment has a cost, and we can only afford that cost if our economy remains healthy. That’s why the environment gets little attention in developing countries. When your children are hungry, butterflies and snails are not high on your priority list.
There is good information on realistic environmentalism at
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=10488
As usual, a right winger trying to distract from his ignorance by coming out with this line of BS. Did Wagner not try to intimidate the professor with his yelling and wagging of his finger? Look at the tape and yes, he was a jerk. Runs in the republican genes.
The projection of you people is classic. The party that has taken negativity, attacks, insults and lies is crying about it. You are sad and pathetic little people.
You people?
Awww, the poor widdle pwofessor was intimidated by the Big Bad Republican Bully, and the poor widdle pwofessor couldn’t fail him for not agreeing with his global warming BS.
As usual, a republican with a reading comprehension problem. The hate must get in the way of functional synapse. He TRIED but failed and the professor did fine in not letting him get away with his BS. It seems you are a typical anti-science republican. Who would have thought the GOP would evolve (whoops can I use that term) into the anti-science party. Kind of funny.