Flat-earther blind to oil facts

By Henry C K Liu

Celebrated New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman, a flat-earthling, in a provocative polemic this week accused the United States president of being the nation's addict-in-chief to oil with "a massive, fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy". ("Mr Bush, Lead or Leave", June 22, 2008).

He described the president's strategy as getting "Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can't totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress into lifting the ban on drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."