Guess who is now asking for taxpayers’ dollars to save them from their own foolishness?
Big Oil, that’s who. They are asking the federal government to save their refineries from rising tides and devastating storms caused by —surprise, surprise — climate change!
Yes, climate change, that nefarious, socialist plot to destroy American greatness by hyping a non-existing threat. Big Oil spends quite a large amount of money and effort to debunk the threat. Several politicians on Big Oil’s payroll erect roadblocks on renewable energy efforts and such ideas as a carbon tax.
Now, alas, climate change is here — and poor, innocent Big Oil has come crying to government for protection. “Please spend taxpayers’ money to protect us from this imaginary threat that we have claimed is not real.”
Since a lot of truly innocent people will be in the way of those rising tides and devastating storms, the protection will have to be built. But Big Oil should be billed for it. And they should be required to distribute op-eds to the nation’s newspapers confessing, “We lied.”
And those politicians who parroted those lies, those who tried to destroy the push for renewables — the ones who forbade government scientists from talking about climate change — they should all be sent home in shame, never to be entrusted with a government post again.
At this moment, due to the corruption within the party, those guilty of colluding in this lie are all Republicans, including our own Tom Marino.
Vote the liars out.
Andrew Uhring
State College
