The Senate Yacht Club Comes out against Oil Development

Well, we know the exclusive Senate Yachting Club opposes windmills off the coast because they might have to look at them when they go sailing. Now the Senate Yacht Club has come out against developing our off shore oil resources.

Sen. Graham, (a Republican, unfortunately) is fronting on this one. I believe he is on the Yachting Club Board. I think he is the chaplain. At least on this issue he is a spokesman for the group. Basically, the Senate Yachting Club wants to keep oil platforms well away from anywhere they might go sailing and they might go sailing pretty much anywhere.

You see, lots of just plain Senate folks go to Davos, Switzerland in the winter and ski and make friends while they are there. And they invite these ski friends to come to the US and go sailing and become sailing friends. Naturally, they don't want them to have to look at an oil rig on the edge of the horizon. In fact, just the thought there might be an oil rig out there would disturb them, because they are quite intelligent and sensitive personages. Now I'm sure we all don't want them to develop the psychological scars that seeing a rig in the middle of a hundred miles of grey ocean might cause -- not when paying a mere two bucks a gallon more for gas would prevent it.

As for energy independence, that is a fairy tale. Of course, that don't mean the Yacht Club won't find ways to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on it. But if to them energy independence is a fairy tale, at least the dollars they spend chasing the chimeras will be real (otherwise the special interest groups will get testy).

Though the Senate Yacht Club is against having five windmills off Nantucket, they are for having five million windmills in the "wind blessed" Midwest. The reason for this is simple: they don't go sailing in the Midwest. Meanwhile, they are realistic and realize that Washington DC, which they represent, needs power -- lots and lots of power -- and it got to come from somewhere. Why not the rest of the Country? I mean, what's it there for?

In a few years, when Midwesterners go driving, they can play "count the windmills" with their children. So a mother will say, "Becky, how many windmills have you counted on your side of the road?" And Becky will say, "1,482." And the mother will say, "and Tommy, how many have you counted on your side?" And Tommy will say, "845,362." And the mother will say, "Gee, boys are better at math."