Facebook | A Billion People for "NO MORE OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING" (snowball effect)

Facebook | A Billion People for "NO MORE OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING" (snowball effect)Betting man that I am, I'm taking wagers: the Gulf Oil Disaster clean up will be done in a () week () month () year () decade () century () NEVER My money is on the latter, I hear tar balls are still washing ashore in Prudhoe Bay.
We must switch to sustainable, renewable resources, like, yesterday. Henry Ford designed his horseless carriage to run on Methanol derived from Hemp. Save the corn for the hungry. You can get 5 times the paper from an acre of hemp than from an acre of trees. And with one fifth the the chemicals (From where? Anybody?) needed to process woodpulp. Save the Old growth Forests not to mention the Rainforests. Rope made from Hemp, pound for pound, is stronger than nylon (made from petrochemicals, if you recall). Brilliant, courageous men of the mid 18th century such as G. Washington and T Jefferson grew hemp as a cash crop as well as a basic resource for their plantations. Until Titusville in the mid 19th century the world relied on renewable, agrarian sources for fiber and fuel and even food and dietary supplements. And lest anyone accuse me as being a seditious, drug obsessed Hippie, I am NOT speaking to the proven medicinal benefits of cannabis whose three famous species comprise a subset of the Hemp family.
The World is at this critical Juncture because of, in a word, GREED. The profits from pumping the nonrenewable crude from the ground far outstrips what can be made from a crop that can be harvested three, four, even five times annually from the same patch of dirt. We MUST STOP poisoning our air, our water, our land, our Planet, OURSELVES. We bury our dead not for religious reasons, not out of respect for the departed, but because dead things are toxic to living beings. We humans are not carrion eaters. Nature has provided us a few to clean up the unburied but absent vultures, bacteria, and bugs, unburied flesh, and plant matter, putrefies and liquefies. Just because the cycads and dinosaurs died and were buried millions of years ago does not mean the toxins from decomposition disappear.
No cleansing of the material, no purification occurs due to time or distance in a closed system thousands of feet underground. Like the bodies that produced them, the toxic oils have nowhere to go, cannot escape their crypt [with a few notable exceptions such as La Brea] until set free by the drillbit. We as a community, as a Nation, as a world, as a species cannot afford any longer to allow the oil barons, individuals or corporate to sell us death for comfort and convenience in a market that they created. the collusion between the automakers and Big Oil and the Chemical Giants {Dow, DuPont, Monsanto} to stifle and or eliminate competing products that endangered their monopolies is well documented and further discussion in this essay, needless.
I wholeheartedly join and SUPPORT this group "NO MORE OFFSHORE DRILLING" knowing that no more onshore drilling is every bit as important. We need a group for it as well. And another, umbrella organization promoting the health and wellness reasons to wean ourselves from the deadly fuel that powers us now. The move to Wind, Solar, Tidal, Geothermal, agricultural and even nuclear power sources cannot come too soon. Oil profiteers were offshore because despite the slightly higher cost of drilling a mile underwater was well offset by the lower cost of the lease acquisition and the suspected size of the reserve. The name of the game is MORE PROFIT. let us raise our collective voice and say NO!