Rehberg Zooms In Boat After Killing Energy Bill
There’s been a lot of talk about the boat crash that Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg was in a few days ago. It’s terrible that he and his staff members were seriously injured. It’s especially grave that they appear to have been impaired from drinking alcohol in the time leading up to the crash.
One issue I’ve not seen anybody yet address is the irony of Representative Rehberg’s crash of a gas hog power boat, given his recent vote against the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Rehberg justified his opposition to the climate change legislation by arguing that the energy supply of the USA is too low: “With the pocketbooks of Montana families subject to fluctuating energy prices, Congress must refrain from passing legislation that reduces our energy supply,” he wrote.
If Rehberg was really so concerned about the national energy supply, what was he doing going on a drunken pleasure ride in a power boat that probably only gets about one mile per gallon, going so fast that when the boat crashed, it actually landed on top of some rocks over ten feet above the water line?
An intoxicated, reckless ride that ends up crashed on the rocks is pretty good metaphor for what the fossil fuel economy has become.
HUmmmmm…… Wonder how fast their health insurance provider is jumping in to pay hospital and therapy and medicine bills?