Hurry up and drill
Trump really wants to get that pesky wildlife refuge destroyed.
In a last-minute push to achieve its long-sought goal of allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, the Trump administration on Monday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to oil companies.
That sets up a potential sale of leases just before Jan 20, Inauguration Day, leaving the new administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has opposed drilling in the refuge, to try to stop the them after the fact.
“The Trump administration is trying a ‘Hail Mary’ pass,” said Jenny Rowland-Shea, a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, a liberal group in Washington. “They know that what they’ve put out there is rushed and legally dubious.”
But it’s worth it to try to smash and break more of everything.
I think we should just drill in Trump Tower; smashing and breaking that would not break my heart. It would be no loss to the world.
To drill in the refuge (irony – I was just teaching about the refuge and the oil drilling designs this morning in my class) could put us in violation of international treaty; we are bound by treaty to protect the habitat of the caribou. I know Trump doesn’t give a flying fuck what other people (especially in other countries) think, and he doesn’t give a flying fuck about the rule of law. It’s time for some of the other countries to face up to him and say “Donald, go to your room. You’re in time out until January 20.”