Archive  February 1998 Vol. 219 No. 2  Editorial Comment

Bob Scott

Drilling to plummet

Many suspected this might happen someday-a radical new invention that will forever change long-used procedures and markedly affect the need for drill bits and accessory equipment.

Previous examples of major innovations in drilling include new bit designs and metallurgy that have significantly increased bit life in recent years. Along with improved circulation rates, this led to higher rotating speeds which were increased even more by subsequent introduction of turbine-powered bits that further boosted ROP and reduced drilling time.

But this latest development is no less than mind-boggling, since it may forever eliminate drilling as we know it.

Referred to, of course, is a new gel material tradenamed Carisolv invented in Sweden, which is a mixture of three amino acids and sodium hypochlorite. What this amazing stuff does is dissolve decayed material in teeth in about a minute, eliminating the drill entirely. We assume each and every one of you will appreciate this latest quantum leap in technology at the dentist's office. But let's all hope that it doesn't work on rocks.

(We almost waited until April 1 to use this, but the urge overcame.)

The global warming (GW) conclave in Kyoto last December, organized by the socialist ecowacko crowd and plainly aimed at eliminating fossil fuels, came out about as expected. The final treaty version resulted from pressure by Ozone Gore, who along with Billy Jeff Clinton and the rest of their goofy central-planning fellow travelers ooed and ahhed over this latest version of envirobulldreck which aims to reduce all developed countries to the status of banana republics by decimating their economies. In particular, the U.S. would suffer most economically. Undeveloped countries would suffer most in terms of lives lost.

Suffice it to say, there is no way the present U.S. Senate will ratify such idiocy and Billy Jeff and Ozone immediately backed off from putting this farce up to a Senate vote because they knew it did not have a prayer of approval. But we do need to keep our eye on these two jokers as long as they're around, because they will continue to do their best to slip it in some legislative back door sometime.

We're not going into much more than that over Kyoto. But a Washington, D.C., group called Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation (CSEF) recently came up with some fascinating information that shoots down in flames a cornerstone of the socialist claims re the GW issue.

For months on end, Billy Jeff, Ozone, Casino Babbit, EPA's Browner etc. have rarely opened their mouths about GW without referring to the "2,600 acclaimed scientists" who endorsed the UN climate change report that led to Kyoto. And every time that happened, we wondered who these 2,600 "scientific experts" were and whether they qualified as "climate experts," since that information was never revealed.

Well, what CSEF did was to track down 1,660 of these "experts," all they could find at this writing, although the search is ongoing. Briefly put, according to CSEF's Internet entry, it has so far found only one true blue climatologist in the whole bunch. Another 181 were considered learned in "qualified disciplines" that have at least something to do with climate (oceanographers, geologists, physicists, meteorologists, atmospheric chemists and scientists, and geographers).

The remaining 1,478 "experts" uncovered were considered to represent "unqualified disciplines." In other words, they didn't and don't qualify as "experts" on climatology any more than Mickey Mouse does.

Some examples of this fraudulent bunch of "experts" include 11 anthropologists, two archaeologists, six agronomists, three BBA majors, two dermatologists, one diplomat, 224 ecologists (whatever the hell they are), one English major, 27 experts on fishing, 57 forestry folks, one hotel administrator, two landscape architects, two lawyers, five mathematicians, 49 MDs, a gynecologist, five ornithologists, a plastic surgeon, three political scientists, 10 psychologists and one psychiatrist, one authority on tourism, four veterinarians, 16 wildlife managers, one doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, 26 entomologists, 60 botanists and 485 biologists (who must be the easiest mark ever for signing on to wacko causes). About the only ones not making the list were turtle doves, milk maids, hens, partridges in pear trees, etc. The biggest surprise, of course, was that only two lawyers were counted.

Conclusion: the Clinton gang knew about and perpetuated this fraud, and blatantly lied as usual or were dumb enough to accept these "experts" as offered. We suspect the latter but would not be at all surprised in the least given their prevaricating history, if the former wasn't true.

So much for these "scientific experts" and the most characterless bunch in any administration ever.

Saddam was stirring up the Middle East pot again in mid-January by once more refusing to allow UN inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, including the reserves of poison gas we suspect he has hidden away.

Where this will end up is anybody's guess, since the U.S. still has a formidable military presence in the Gulf region. But whether we will see it used unilaterally is another matter, since Billy Jeff Clinton chickened out last year in the face of criticism from "friendly" countries just dying to do business in Iraq.

All of the hullabaloo over Saddam's potential use of poison gas during and since the Gulf War has resulted in discovery of another plan for using gas which far eclipses any threat Saddam might pose today.

This 29-page plan initially proposed dropping 56,583 tons of poison gas bombs over 15 days on 50 urban and industrial targets. This was to be followed by an additional 23,935 tons of gas bombs per month until all targets had been hit. Estimated casualties: 5 million fatalities plus an untold multitude of injured. Artillery, aircraft sprays and land mines were also to be used to spread gas over selected military targets.

The gas was to come from an inventory of several million gas artillery shells, over one million bombs, 100,000 aircraft spray tanks and 43,000 land mines. And just who was this country that seriously considered such an operation?

It was us. The U.S. The reason: to minimize projected U.S. casualties during the land invasion of Japan in 1945. The atomic bomb fortunately — as it turns out — rendered the gas plan obsolete. The plan also brings to light the terrible potential of a gas attack. And why Saddam's gas — which is far more dangerous than the mustard, phosgene, hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen chloride gases available 53 years ago — has to be found before this mini-Hitler is turned loose on the world again.

Some attendant thoughts:

• Given the choice, Harry Truman was right after all.
• Gas can pose an even worse threat than a nuclear device excluding perhaps the largest H-bombs.
• Instead of wringing their hands and trying to appease him, Saddam's oil producing neighbors, who will be the first to suffer in any gas attack, should be trying to vaporize him and the sooner the better. Putting a reward of $5 million or so on his head might finally get that job done, as has been suggested before.
• And perhaps most importantly, what the hell happened to all that stuff we had stockpiled back in 1945?

(Source of information on the "plan" is taken from the documented article "The most deadly plan" by Norman Polmer and T.B. Allen, which appears in the January 1998 issue of Proceedings magazine, published by the U.S. Naval Institute.)

Billy Jeff Clinton may be a raving genius, but so was the unabomber. Both, however, have a screw loose.

As this was written on January 26, he was totally denying any involvement with Ms. Lewinsky and the rash of new allegations of hanky-panky. At this point, it's a "he says — she says" situation. Given his propensity for lying throughout his presidency and her questionable honesty based on her deposition in the Paula Jones case and what her lawyer and those tapes say, we have no idea of who's telling the truth.

Unfortunately, if she's telling the truth about Clinton and his lawyer buddy urging her to lie on that deposition and that can be substantiated or proven to even a grand jury's satisfaction, both are in a lot of trouble.

But one thing is for damn sure — we had all better hope and pray that Billy Jeff has spake the truth for once and that he's innocent of all charges. If he removes himself or is removed from office by impeachment, Ozone Gore — a proven envirowacko of the first order — will become president and we can imagine nothing worse that would send shudders of panic up the collective spines of oil and gas, the country and the world.

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