Liars and their enablers

Via Gateway Pundit, I find out that the Democrat American Communist Party has blocked another bill that would have let us explore for oil in American territory.

What really chaps my ass is this:

Sierra Club lands program director Athan Manuel told a House committee Wednesday that drilling has been unsuccessful in driving costs down.

"The disappointing part about some of the energy policies being promoted (is) that it calls for more drilling when drilling really is the problem. And all we've got to show for pretty aggressive (domestic) drilling for the last 35 years is, again, $4 for a gallon of gas," Manuel said, adding "since the first Arab oil shock in the 1970s, the U.S. has produced almost 90 billion barrels of oil since then, so we've tried drilling our way out of the problem and it just hasn't worked."

Now, just a few paragraphs above that blurb is this little nugget:

Most offshore oil production and exploration has been banned since a federal law passed in 1981.

Tell me again how we've been doing "aggressive (domestic) drilling for the past 35 years" when that very activity has been BANNED? How can this country have been "aggressively drilling" when WE HAVE BEEN PREVENTED FROM DOING SO?

The only logical deduction is that Sierra Club lands program director Athan Manuel is a flat-out fraud, a liar, an eco freak with an agenda and a very loose relationship with facts and the truth. I'm tired of dealing with the Left, I really am. I'm tired of dealing with people who simply lie like you and I would draw a breath. I'm tired of dealing with people who let their ideology control every aspect of their lives, no matter who or what it hurts. And I'm tired of people like that running the energy policy of our country.