Crude oil tankers described as bombs (“Oil tankers are bombs on wheels!” March 28): I’ll let someone else point out the flammability difference between crude oil and gasoline, because my head already hurts from trying to comprehend how someone doesn’t notice how gasoline gets to gas stations. People drive cars and trucks, using up to 30 gallons at a time, and then they pack our streets and freeways, bumper to bumper every day. How much gasoline is lined up on the 101 between Ventura and Santa Barbara every rush hour?
I took a deep breath before hitting the keyboard and thought that the bird brain, Canary, might actually have a cogent thought. In fact, I actually saw one a week or so ago, but I can’t recall what or when because they’re as rare as hens’ teeth. But no. What I saw was 100,000 gallons described as a “giant” oil spill (“Truck it in,” March 28). In journalism, one must determine a scale for describing anything. If you fire off “giant,” what do you use for 10.8 million gallons in the case of the Exxon Valdez spill? I think you have to reach for Dr. Carl Sagan’s superlatives to describe the 210 million gallons from the Deep Water Horizon blowout.
Now, call me old fashioned, but grapes and bananas come in bunches. Oops, you did use “bunch” of oil and “bunch” of trucks, and really, it is just a bunch of horse hockey. I’m not much of a math student, and I’ll accept any correction, but to my slide rule, 100,000 gallons would fill a container measuring 23 feet per side. And most of that spill was on land.
Take a look at the beach today, and you wouldn’t notice any oil except for the natural seeps in the channel that have washed up for centuries. People are camping and walking, and the fishing boats are harvesting the bounty of the sea. I’ve pointed all of this out, because it’s obvious that liberals are incapable of cognitive thinking: I’ll add critical thinking or reasoned thinking to that statement—just plain thinking. They believe the liberal narrative like a religion. They chant in unison with no independent stripe. They’re just a bunch of—pick a name.
This article appears in Apr 4-11, 2019.