I just today had an exchange over Facebook about politics and issues and what not. I said that I believed our most important issue right now is energy independence as a country. Here was his statement to me:
"Who says more drilling won't solve our energy crisis? The whole notion that we are running out of oil and natural gas is nonsense. It is driven by the same fantasy science that drives the malarkey about global warming.
Obama is a Black Nationalist Marxist Infanticidist. Anybody voting for him has a death wish for this culture."
I decided that I'd bite and show him that pretty much all energy experts hold the view that drilling won't solve our crisis and cited a couple of references and his response was : "Don't believe it. All kinds of oil in this country. Just have to access it."
I guess I could understand someone who just listens to talking points being ignorant about it just because I know most people lack a natural curiosity about things that are not right in front of their face.
However, I think this pretty well illustrates an aggressive, willful ignorance to a degree that I didn't know existed.
Charles,
Don't see anything even close to what you said about Obama. Actually mailed in my ballot already.
You know why he doesn't want to drill? Because what is the point of drilling for a resource that is price controlled by foreign entities like OPEC?
When you can have your own renewable resources.
Yeah, I realize that I'm talking with crazy people here. One of them said that the great depression was caused by the creation of central banks and "the nonsensical view that America did not need to pay homage to our Lord God Almighty". Then said I needed to repent of being a "statist" or "God will destroy you along with the pie-in-the-sky Obama clap trap."
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"Who says more drilling won't solve our energy crisis? The whole notion that we are running out of oil and natural gas is nonsense. It is driven by the same fantasy science that drives the malarkey about global warming.
Obama is a Black Nationalist Marxist Infanticidist. Anybody voting for him has a death wish for this culture."
I decided that I'd bite and show him that pretty much all energy experts hold the view that drilling won't solve our crisis and cited a couple of references and his response was : "Don't believe it. All kinds of oil in this country. Just have to access it."
I guess I could understand someone who just listens to talking points being ignorant about it just because I know most people lack a natural curiosity about things that are not right in front of their face.
However, I think this pretty well illustrates an aggressive, willful ignorance to a degree that I didn't know existed.
Don't see anything even close to what you said about Obama. Actually mailed in my ballot already.
You know why he doesn't want to drill? Because what is the point of drilling for a resource that is price controlled by foreign entities like OPEC?
When you can have your own renewable resources.