Drill baby drill!
The federal government has auctioned off some land out west for oil drilling, to which I say “Bravo!”
Late on Election Day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a Dec. 19 auction of more than 50,000 acres of oil and gas parcels alongside or within view of Arches National Park and two other redrock national parks in Utah: Dinosaur and Canyonlands.
The National Park Service’s top official in the state calls it “shocking and disturbing” and says his agency wasn’t properly notified. Environmentalists call it a “fire sale” for the oil and gas industry by a departing administration.
Officials of the BLM, which oversees millions of acres of public land in the West, say the sale is nothing unusual, and one is “puzzled” that the Park Service is upset.
It’s amazing the places environmentalists won’t let us drill: the frozen tundra of Alaska, the arid regions of the western U.S., out in the ocean. Liberals are decidedly anti-growth, anti-oil, anti-capitalist, anti-anything that would make life economically better for U.S. citizens.
