Americans To Democrats: "Drill Or Else"

by JASmius



The throttled Keystone XL pipeline is far from the only means of safely transporting our abundant fossil fuel resources, oh no.

Gentlebeings, I give you the Atlantic Coast Pipeline:

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is an interstate natural gas pipeline that will serve multiple public utilities and their urgent energy needs in Virginia and North Carolina. The natural gas transported safely by this project will be used to generate electricity as well as to heat homes and run local businesses.

By providing access to additional low-cost natural gas supplies, the ACP will increase the reliability and security of natural gas supplies in Virginia and North Carolina.

The people of West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina are enthusiastically behind the ACP:

[The Consumer Energy Alliance] found that 56% of voters in Virginia supported the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, 70% in West Virginia and 55% in North Carolina. The poll also showed that voters of all political affiliations support expanding offshore exploration, constructing the Keystone XL pipeline, keeping coal power plants operational and expanding shale production via hydraulic fracturing. Job were mentioned most frequently as the reasoning for support of the pipeline, following by anticipated reduction of natural gas prices. [emphasis added]

So...."drill, baby, drill," right?  The will of the people has spoken, yes?

Piffle.  As Empress Hoshi Sato III will say in another quantum history 262 years from now, "What do the people matter?":

A group of Nelson County residents traveled once again to the Federal Energy Regulartory Commission offices in Washington, D.C., last week, demanding that their voices be heard about the 550-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline proposed by Dominion Resources.

i.e. Pushing against an open door.

Though more than a year has passed since the pipeline was first announced in May 2014, local opposition to the project remains passionate as residents refuse to back down.

Out of all proportion to its numbers.

This time, they joined forces with other protesters from around the nation. Protesters stood against the ACP as well as other infrastructure projects, such as Dominion’s Cove Point LNG export facility in Maryland. Beyond Extreme Energy, an [extrem]ist network, organized the “Stop the FERCus” protest outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from May 21st through 29th.

That's funny, I thought the Left loved infrastructure spending.  And they do - when it's public and not pro-energy.

And they'll get their way, too.  Jobs?  Shut up and take your food stamps.  Cheap energy, warm homes, affordable gasoline?  Be quiet, go to your damp cave with Moon-Watcher, snuggle up with your windmills, and wait for the killer leopard to come for you.  Our impoverishment and misery is the only way to "save the planet".

I'm not an advocate of police brutality, but if there had to be some, paganized anti-energy loonfests like "Stop The FERCus" would be prime candidates for it.

Seriously, is it not still possible to tell these Gaia-fellating, inhuman jagovs to bleep off?  Such a smackdown is unbearably overdue.