Rep Don Young: Gulf Oil Spill 'Not An Environmental Disaster'

[mod mom]

Don't worry about the oil spilling into the Gulf, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) says, because the worst spill in U.S. history is "not an environmental disaster," just nature taking its course.

"This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again because it is a natural phenomenon," Young said after Congressional hearings last week. "Oil has seeped into this ocean for centuries, will continue to do it. During World War II there was over 10 million barrels of oil spilt from ships, and no natural catastrophe. ... We will lose some birds, we will lose some fixed sealife, but overall it will recover."

Young, of course, has notoriously close and longstanding ties with oil companies, and went on to criticize the Obama administration's stated moratorium on new offshore drilling permits in the wake of the Gulf spill.

The Alaska Republican has already taken heat for those comments from his challengers on both sides of the aisle. "The man is an ostrich," Democrat Harry Crawford said. "He has his head in the sand if he can't see that this is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, man-made disaster in history."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/don-young-gulf-oil-spill-environmental-disaster_n_599392.html

and people vote for these corporate sponsored idiots?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Like to see him say that with a straight face to the Miami and Palm Beach Chambers of Commerce.

[bdamomma]

11. oh yea, Florida is next to lose alot of money and tourism

if they do not get this in control.

[ananda]

2. Ok, so it's just a natural phenomenon that will...

... destroy life on earth as we know it. But sure, nature is at work, much
of it the process of dying.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

3. I wish that nature would "take its' course" and make idiots like Young

unable to reproduce.

Of course, I realize that he's only part idiot. The other part is a mixture of greed and pure evil.

People (and that's a stretch) such as Young, Palin and Murkowski really are well controlled by the API or anyone else with the required credentials...... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[AndyA]

4. Truly terrifying that idiot jerks like this have the power to make decisions for the masses.

And it says a lot about the simpletons who elect people like him. Hey America, perhaps it's time to actually get INVOLVED in what's going on in your country...for a change.

Pay attention.

Wake. The. Fuck. Up.

[okieinpain]

9. man oklahoma has a whole state full of them. hell gov. jindal

would probably agree with him if it wasn't for it being on his front porch.

[donco6]

5. Well, hell, let's just save a lot of dough and pack it in.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[Ernesto]

6. Sorry Don, the R behind your name says it all! nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Does this drivel resonate with his constituents?

Because if it does then they're in dire need of education. As for him, he's just a opportunistic corporate tool.

[whatchamacallit]

8. Maybe one day Don Young will nick an artery

and the paramedic will say "it's not a disaster it's a natural phenomenon", and let his sorry ass bleed out.

[damntexdem]

10. Hmm, like the Chicxulub asteroid? Also not an environmental disaster?

OK, Don, how about this: an ECONOMIC disaster of major proportions for the entire Gulf region, and possibly for the East Coast as well?

[BeFree]

12. Yep

This is the biggest corporate catastrophe ever.

And the economic disaster which follows will be dwarfed only by the environmental disaster which we will live with the rest of our lives.