Rep. Sali: There ‘Could Be Up To Forty Barrels Of Oil In A Single Tree’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/14/sali-oil-in-trees/

Rep. Sali: There ‘Could Be Up To Forty Barrels Of Oil In A Single Tree’


Bill Sali (R-ID), who is participating in the GOP’s ongoing “Drill Now” energy stunt, has a unique idea about how to bring down gas prices: extracting oil from trees. In a meeting in his Capitol Hill office, Sali reportedly told a candidate for Idaho’s House of Representatives, Byron Yankey, that there “‘could be up to 40 barrels of oil‘ in a single tree.” Yankey wrote on his campaign blog:

Congressman Sali informed us that a solution to the high price of gasoline was to make petroleum from “all those trees in our forests.” … He continued by saying there “could be up to 40 barrels of oil” in a single tree.

Sali made a similar comment in 2006:

“Forty percent of the mass of every tree in the forest is crude oil,” he said. Going after that, he said, “could put Idaho in the oil business for the first time.”

Sali is apparently confusing cellulosic ethanol with oil, so let’s review the differences for the representative:

– Cellulosic ethanol is a renewable fuel “derived from the stalks and stems of plants.” Sali voted against cellulosic ethanol tax credits.

– Oil is a nonrenewable fuel found in the ground. Sali received $35,000 in campaign contributions from oil and gas companies since January 2007.

Sali is prone to making outlandish statements. Last summer, he claimed that religious diversity in Congress was not “envisioned by the Founding Fathers.”

[99th_Monkey]

1. Oh goodie!! Another sorry-ass excuse to mow down our old growth forests. Fuck Rep. Sali. ~nt~

[DS1]

2. fine. lets start with burning his house

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Hey, oil is petroleum, right? That means "rock oil."

Let's convince him you can squeeze oil out of rocks, and sell him a boulder field somewhere.

[Happyhippychick]

4. I think he's confusing oil with sap but that wouldn't surprise me.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. He's is a sap, no doubt about it.

Maybe he puts maple oil on his waffles.

[magellan]

5. We could probably get a few barrels out of people too

Let's start with stupid Repubs.

Oh sorry, redundant.

Let's start with Repubs.

[CrispyQ]

6. "Take it, rape it, it's yours."

These guys wouldn't know the meaning of the word stewardship if they had to write it's meaning on the blackboard 100 times.

:banghead:

[onethatcares]

7. I'll have some of what he's smokin.

aint had nothing like that since the 70s.:wow:

[niyad]

8. how is it that people this stupid are allowed to run around without their keepers?