Rossputin.com Rational Thinking About Our World

It's nobody's fault but ours that so many of our citizens are susceptible to advertising which tries to make someone look bad simply for being part of a particular industry.

It would be amusing if it weren't so dangerous to the economy that millions of Americans seem to hate the oil industry, as if we'd have oil and gas without the industry.

A left-wing group (probably affiliated with Mark Udall's environmental extremist wife) has been running an ad tying Bob Schaffer to the oil industry. Objectively, we should be thanking Schaffer for being involved in trying to increase world energy supplies, but liberals don't think that way. And unfortunately, the average American has such a poor understanding of economics and is so easily manipulated that they're almost certainly interpreting the ad as a negative for Schaffer.

So, I'm very glad that one of Denver's two major papers has finally stepped in to make some points which my readers my find obvious but which too many Coloradans need to have explained.

See "Buying into the Big Oil smear" (Rocky Mountain News, Editorial, 6/28/08)
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/28/buying-into-the-big-oil-smear/