The next son of a bitch

who pooh-poohs drilling in ANWR, or building a new Alaska Pipeline, or drilling off the Florida Gulf Coast, and does so because “it will take x number of years and won’t help anything right now” is going to get a punch in the mouth.
In 1973 (yes, I know some of you weren’t born yet, or were crawling around on the carpet going “goo goo”), the ragheads embargoed us and gas got expensive.*
I’m sure some dipshit(s) at the time bemoaned the fact that it would take ten years to build up our domestic oil production infrastructure, and by that time the Ay-rabs would be overrun by Israel and we’d get all the sweet inexpensive crude we could consume without spending all that money and messing up the en-VI-ro-ment.
Well, you fucking morons, THE FUCKING CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST.
You could have built nearly FOUR GENERATIONS of ten-years-to-production energy infrastructure by now.
So stop WHINING and start BUILDING. And start SHOOTING the FUCKING ENVIRONMENTALISTS who get in the WAY.
Jesus.
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* Before that, gas was running about 30 cents a gallon, even less if you could find yourself a little “gas war” going on along the highway. After that, gas ran about 45 cents a gallon and started climbing; five years later it was a whopping 75 cents a gallon, Killer Rabbit Boy er Jimmy Carter was talking about rationing, most gas stations were closed on Sundays, and that really cut into my dating schedule.