"Small town hopes oil drilling will revive economy" by Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times | July 7, 2008
TAFT, Calif. - Thousands of pumps dot the desert around Taft, and many more are coming. With rocketing oil prices, companies have reopened old wells that were once deemed too costly to operate. Chevron alone has tripled its investment in the area since 2004, budgeting more than $900 million this year to find and pump the oil left behind by previous booms.
In recent years, the oil business has been very good to people like Bruce Holmes. On a century-old oil field in nearby Maricopa, he is moved to grand oratory when contemplating the bad rap that oil gets, particularly in communities along the coast.
"Environmentalists live their lives in helium-filled balloons balanced on the backs of the taxpayers," he said. "The oilman, the bootlegger, the pornographer: People utilize the services we provide, then curse us for providing them."
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Is it not interesting that the oil man compares himself to the pornographer?
Because they are BOTH FUCKING US!!!!
And here's a question: Why not put solar panels up in the dusty desert towns?
Yeah, I did just contribute to global warming again (pffffffft)!!
