media blames NIMBY for no new refineries

The media use a new parrot-phrase when a lack of new oil refineries is blamed for rising gas costs. The talking heads are teaching people to say that no one wants a refinery near them (Not In My Backyard, or NIMBY).

Actually, many towns would welcome the jobs and economic boost a refinery would bring, and some towns have granted tax breaks to oil producers.

But what's really happening is that environmentalists send activists and lawyers to block attempts to build refineries and then claim grass-root opposition. The media, of course, goes along with this.

Without new drilling and refineries, we remain vulnerable economically and militarily, which are the REAL reasons that international anti-U.S. groups use emotional ecological issues to disguise their real agenda.