Another Southern Minnesota newspaper chimes in on Congresswoman Bachmann's silliness about drilling. In Oil is where you find it, the New Ulm Journal editorial board says:
U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann has joined the growing list of those who insist we must drill for oil wherever it may be in order to lower fuel prices.
Bachmann, after a tour of energy sites in Colorado and Alaska with other Republican members of Congress, says we can cut our gas prices in half if we tap our own energy sources more completely.
Well, a lot of oil experts dispute that. The easy-to-reach oil has been tapped, they say. If we do drill everywhere we can, the U.S.'s oil supply is still on a downward turn.
We've heard others who make a lot of sense when they say the best way to reduce our dependence on oil is to simply use less of it. If Americans can reduce their consumption of oil, and we are by far the world's leading consumer, it would have an immediate impact on supply and demand - not by increasing supply but by lowering demand - and that should affect the prices. . . .
The paper suggests some common-sense measures for energy conservation. Speaking of common sense, our friend Charlie Quimby at Across the Great Divide looks at Bachmann's load of horse apples in Postage Stamp on a Football Field? More Like a Pile of Horsepuckey, and Andy Birkey at the Minnesota Independent scrutinizes her claims in Gassy: Adding up Bachmann's $2-per-gallon promise.
Both cite Bluestem Prairie for posts in which we debunked malarky in these claims when Brian Davis--and his letter-writing camp followers--made them earlier. Now Brian's BFF Bachmann and the Boehner Bunkum Brigade are recycling this rot. We're all for composting and fertilizer, folks, but it's the middle of the summer, folks, and broadcasting it this time of year defies the best practices for manure management.
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