The reality is that our national economy is oil-sensitive, as demonstrated by last year’s fuel prices and the true destruction out-of-control oil prices wreaked on our economy. Realize that opening more oil fields can help buffer against future problems – not to mention being another source of major revenue for the greedy entitlement culture of California.

And despite the lofty speeches and clicking-heels wishful thinking of “green energy”, such technology isn’t ready to take over from oil. In the meantime, gone are the days where oil was pumped into the ocean or systems were engineered without concern for environmental impacts. Current oil companies that are allowed to drill do so under regulations so tight that you as the average citizen would not be able to run your own household. (As an example – do you have an MSDS on file for EVERY chemical in your house? Have you maintained them for the last 50 years? Do you make written notification to your neighbor every time you spray insecticide under your sink because you saw a spider? For that matter, are you licensed to spray that insecticide? And those are the really simple and easy things to comply with… )

None of us want to drill any more than necessary, but at the same time, one has to be realistic and perhaps less rhetorical.

As for Duvall, he deserves everything he gets. And I agree with those before who are amazed by the press’s lack of coverage. But as Bruce Willis said in Die Hard, “Welcome to the party, Pal.” Some of us have been amazed since the days of President Clinton and his marinated cigars.

Some media types seem to think that sex scandals are beneath them and just purient pandering to the USA Today crowd. But this is corruption! Base vile impious influence over the body politic. May Priapus curse the offenders, their impotent viagra inspired weapons and pox infected dirty dried up sheaths!