PrintAugust 6, 2008
Environmentalists and 'snake oil'
The Natural Resources Defense Council demonstrates a remarkable lack of self-awareness by seeming to offer the promise of $1gasoline while simultaneously lampooning George Bush as a ‘snake oil salesman'.
Here's the NRDC near-promise:
Want gas at $1 a gallon? America needs a bold new approach to energy, from more fuel efficient vehicles to plug-in hybrids and electric cars.
Not quite a direct promise. More like the slippery rhetoric of an infomercial, the updated version of snake oil sales. But no such modernity for the lampooning of Bush:
Expanding supply with proven technologies is snake oil, but promising $1 dollar gasoline from unproven technologies isn't? These people are suffering from severe irony deficiency.
