By Lincoln Brown
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
“Fracking” is one of those words that will set any given
Progressive off like a roman candle. Kind of like “marriage” “Bible” or
“America”. It will produce a mouth foaming, wild-eyed reaction reminiscent of
the beast-man that attacked Michael York in the cave scene of the 1977 version
of The Island of Dr. Moreau. I am not going to go into detail about fracking,
except to say that despite the breathless propaganda, there has never been a
serious incident from it, and that it helps keep many people employed and
provides energy.
Oh, and if it was truly the boogeyman the Left claims it
to be, the energy industry would have abandoned it long ago, since the loss of
product needed to create the alleged catastrophes would make it unprofitable.
(If you want the facts I’ve discovered about fracking, email me and I’ll be happy
to send them to you.)
But even the Progressives should be wiping the egg off
their face on this one. It is no secret that Hollywood loves a good cause, and
will go to any length to show how environmentally sensitive it is, and how
in-sync with Mother Earth its writers, producers, directors and in particular
its actors are.
The latest edition of rich people taking a brave stand on
the silver screen on an issue they refuse to learn anything about is The
Promised Land due to hit the theaters this December. Its premise: the evil energy
industry is ruining the lives of small-town Americans. Its star: Matt Damon.
Its ad shows Mr. Damon looking behind him in a defiant,
yet warm kind of way, as if he is mustering his courage to bravely take on the
evil oil and gas barons who are raping the land and leaving thousands of people
homeless/broke/hungry/without an Obamaphone in their wake. (Many of the people
I know in the industry ran or used to run small businesses related to energy;
but don’t let that get in the way of your self-righteous, eco-conscious
hissy-fit. By all means, rage on.) The subtitle on the banner is “What’s your
price?” A question the filmmakers, Mr. Damon and the rest of the tea cup
poodles in Hollywood might want to contemplate.
One group who would know what their price is, at least in
terms of making the picture would be Image Media Abu Dhabi. Yes, that Abu
Dhabi. The one in the United Arab Emirates. The one that is a member of OPEC.
In point of fact, Image Media Abu Dhabi is a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media, a
company that is wholly owned by the UAE. And it provided backing for the film.
It makes sense that an OPEC nation would have a stake in
demonizing American energy production. Fracking has increased the supply of oil
and natural gas in the U.S. The UAE is number seven on the globe for natural
gas reserves. The U.S. has an abundant supply, so much so that other countries
such as Japan might be able to purchase it at a better price from us than what
the UAE would offer. That means fewer Mercedes, Jaguars, and luxury trips for
our friends in OPEC, and more money and more energy for people here. And should
the U.S. begin to produce more oil, that would make America more interesting to
people who produce products that need oil, such as plastics; and the UAE has
spent a veritable mountain of cash trying to develop its industries that depend
on petroleum.
I know you guys on the Left are at this moment lusting
for my jugular and want to send me “back to The House of Pain” But after you do
that, you may want to ask yourselves, and for the matter the producers of The Promised Land why they financed their
movie with money from a country that gets its money from the same practices
that you spend so much time patting yourselves on the back for attacking here.
It sounds like a job for Jason Bourne. But something
tells me he is due on the set to look simultaneously defiant and compassionate.
And to make a pile of money the likes of which none of us will ever see while
doing it.
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