http://articles.citypages.com/2008-04-02/news/virginia-is-the-new-saudi-arabia/Rep. Michele Bachmann solves the energy crisis while watching The Beverly Hillbillies
Virginia is the new Saudi Arabia
Come and listen to a story about a woman named Michele...Let's face it: Harping on Rep. Michele Bachmann just ain't what it used to be. At this point, taking swipes at her fairy-tale worldview is like shooting fish in a barrel. No, wait. It's more like shooting the barrel itself, provided it's filled to the brim with steaming bullshit.
So it is with fatigued reserve that we pass along a laughable speech that the Sixth District representative delivered to the Anoka County Business Leadership Forum last week: "If we extract 20 percent
we know is off the coast of Virginia, we can replace what we import from Saudi Arabia," she said. "We have got almost unlimited availability of energy in the United States but we have restricted our ability to use it."
Sigh. It's impossible to know the exact figures, but according to the Interior Department, about 56 million barrels of oil are waiting to be tapped off Virginia's coast. Twenty percent of 56 million—let's see, carry the one—is just over 11 million barrels. Total. By contrast, we import roughly 500 million barrels of oil a year from the Saudis, according to those hippies at the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. government's own site that keeps track of such matters.
Note to Bachmann: 500 million > 11 million. —Matt Snyders
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