DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR OIL BLAME GAME TO SURFACE--DID IT?

Personally, I would like to know why The Herald delights in irritating some readers by publishing such outrageous hogwash and ridiculous propaganda in the first place. ("Environmentalists stopped the drilling.")
Blame the Democrats and environmentalists for not wanting the rest of us to destroy every inch of the environment we live currently in? Sure! If it fits the party rhetoric and classic blame game! Let's get it printed! (Should sell the paper more copies, right?)

But I seriously doubt that writer even knows why gas prices are so astronomically high right now, or the real reasons behind our lack of no new refineries or production facilities these last 30 years or so.

It's not just Democrats and environmentalists whom had a hand in clamping down, or introducing legislation to perserve sensitive areas to new drilling contracts all these years, but also Republicans!

Did the writer even consider that in his recently published tirade? I don't think so.

But it's so easy to blame one side when you don't have all the facts and information at hand. Isn't that right folks?

Schuyler Thorpe

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