Blessed highlights from oil industry-sponsored--read: our favorite friends at the American Petroleum Institute and the Citizens for Affordable Energy campaign--protests against the pending drilling moratorium yesterday:
Attendants donned red T-shirts handed out at the door that proclaimed: “We are energy nation.’’ Others wore the “I am an energy citizen’’ and “Rally for jobs, our jobs, our future,’’ included in the gift bags. [Yes that's right--there were gift bags.]
They roared when several speakers noted President Obama’s Air Force One flew on fuel the industry produced and the nation watched his speeches on televisions powered by industry fuel. [So what?]
“So why are we cutting off the Gulf of Mexico?’’ said John Hofmeister, former president of Shell USA and chief executive of Citizens for Affordable Energy. “You cut off your nose to spite your face, Mr president.’ ’[This makes absolutely no sense]
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