VIDEO: Voices From The Gulf
Hot Air had this originally – it’s a video that the Heritage Foundation and the Institute for Energy Research put together on Obama’s moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling and its effects on the local people here in Louisiana who are in the oil business and yet were not involved in spilling oil or killing rig workers.
You constantly run into people who deny that the moratorium has had a real economic effect on Louisiana (one can imagine it helps to have such views when George Soros is paying your freight) or attempt to justify what the administration has done on the basis that the Macondo spill was “the worst environmental disaster in American history” and it can never be repeated.
Except that in well under a year, the effects of the BP spill are almost completely gone. And the only real damage to Louisiana’s seafood seems to be psychological – in that people who have bought into media hype about the spill are shying away from perfectly good product for little reason.
In response to the charges over seafood-consumption figures not providing a margin of safety, LDHH re-evaluated their results based upon the chemical analyses for edible seafood tissue through early February 2011. The results show that an individual could eat 9 pounds of fish, 5 pounds of oysters or 63 pounds of shrimp and crabs per day without exceeding established acceptable health risk levels from oil-spill pollutants.
Dr. Jimmy Guidry, the Louisiana State Health Officer and Medical Director for LDHH says flatly, “As a physician, I totally support the fact that eating seafood is not going to be unsafe. I eat the seafood. My grandchildren eat the seafood. There is no doubt in my mind that the seafood is safe to eat.”
Ask yourself if this video, shot at an abandoned rig off Timbalier Bay last month, looks like it comes from an environmentally diseased area…
(apologies for the mind-numbing Titanic background music)
In short, what we have is an environmental disaster of very short duration which has been used to justify a man-made economic disaster which is ongoing.
And that, it seems, is the very essence of the Obama administration.
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Post updated May 27, 2011 – VIDEO: Voices From The Gulf. Read it now at http://tinyurl.com/3l6lrog
Ha! Nice one, Scott. You mischaracterize my argument, insert a chopped (mis)quote from another post, and throw in a guilt-by-association tag… all in one sentence! Great stuff, there. Luckily, you gave a link so that people can sort this out for themselves, but few will, and you know that. All in a day’s work, I suppose.
I’ve never denied that the moratorium had a real economic effect. In fact, I just profiled one of the business owners who HAD been effected directly by the moratorium. My argument was that the moratorium’s impact had been a small fraction of that forecasted by blogs like The Hayride… unless we’re convinced by your simplistic post hoc fallacies, which we’re not. Why not dig down into the data and formulate a convincing argument about the moratorium, and respond to my claims rather than distort my arguments and quotes?
You give yourself far too much importance, Moseley. Be grateful you got a
link at all. After all, the brownshirts at Soros’ Open Society propaganda
shop are going to want to see some evidence of traffic in return for their
checks.
Your argument is offensive in the extreme, and ridiculous to boot.
Louisiana’s economy has shed tens of thousands of jobs in the past year and
the worst damage is in the oil patch. But beyond the unemployment effects,
which are obvious to anyone not pushing a left-wing agenda for hire, you
completely refuse to acknowledge the destruction of capital to those
companies in the industry who have chosen to take losses in order to keep
their people off the streets as though this is somehow acceptable. Then
again, as someone whose writings show noticeable contempt for those who seek
to earn profits in their daily work it’s hardly surprising that you would
miss that destruction of wealth. Broken windows are good for the economy,
right?
Back up your argument with evidence, and show me the data demonstrating that tens of thousands of net jobs have been lost in the oil patch over the past year, as the video above claims.
I’m certainly not indifferent to capital formation. That’s actually my line of work. But the original arguments against the moratorium rallied people against the specter of lost jobs, and the evidence suggests none of the forecasted scenarios have come to pass. As for my side job, at The Lens, I’ll be sure to tell my boss, Steve Beatty, formerly of the Pelican Institute, that our investigative news reports must be all about getting hits to satisfy the “brown shirts.” Maybe I’ll pass along rumors about crime victims wearing Palin gear– that seems to get a spike.