Well…have been taking it easy today and doing some reading…came across an article from Washington state where they are having hearings on whether or not to approve a new oil train terminal to allow Canadian oil to be exported from there. One of the selling points that the oil industry is using just made me shake my head when I read it…while they admitted that an oil spill would have negative impacts, they also proposed that a spill would have “positive economic impact” by the people that would have to be hired to clean up the spill and the money that would be spent on equipment to help that. Yep, they actually said that oil spills are a good thing due to the economic activity they bring….never mind that the estimated cost of a spill in the area they propose could cost up to 170 million dollars in environmental damage…but, hey….we’ll hire hundreds of people to clean it up so that’s okay. They go on to assert that when a spill happens it is actually beneficial to wildlife and fisheries since they would have to close the hunting and fishing seasons if there was a spill…keeping lots of fish and other wildlife from being hunted and killed….yep, they actually said that, too….Mr. Orwell…they have stolen your doublespeak….geez…