Further bolstering my claim if you scratch an environmentalist you'll find a socialist is Mary Anastasia O' Grady's column today in the Wall Street Journal, where she makes the not-so-surprising observation environmentalists only oppose drilling for oil by the private sector. The Brazilian government-controlled oil company Petrobas has lately been drilling up a storm offshore that country and there has been nary a squeak of protest from the greens.
Likewise the other government-controlled oil companies in South and Central America and the Cubans, via the Chinese government, have been drilling just sixty miles off the coast of Florida, hoping to tap the same 4.6 billion to 9.3 billion barrels in reserves that are off-limits to American oil companies. You won't see or hear of demonstrations opposed to that drilling in Havana, of course, it wouldn't be allowed, but neither will you anywhere else, at Cuban embassies or the United Nations. The reason, you see, is drilling for oil only threatens the environment when there is a possibility private corporations (especially American) and shareholders might make a profit from it.
(h/t the Instapundit)
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