PLASTICS

Joel at The Mole Hole has linked to a splendid petroleum-reality article in The Big Bear Grizzly, a left-coast paper. But this article is a winner.

http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/articles/2008/02/14/news/plasticland.prt

green folks get all exercised about going to war or doing this or that for possession/control of oil.

The operative phrase frequently seen is only for oil. Only for oil indeed.

Oil is the black gold of the US; of the industrial world; of the free world.

It is the material underpinning of a way of life.

Liberals, especially the greens, haven’t a clue.