The community of Ocean Beach near San Diego, California is planning a protest of oil drilling on June 26:
Please aim for a 10 a.m. arrival, and please ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 10:30 a.m. A helicopter will arrive overhead at 11 a.m. and remain for approximately fifteen minutes. At similar past events, late arrivers have, to their great disappointment, found the helicopter nowhere to be seen and the participants already dispersing.
A protest of oil drilling will be focused around the use of a helicopter. Helicopters get 3 miles per gallon or less. Think, people. Think.
What’s even the point of the helicopter?
To take a pretty picture.
Wouldn’t a tall ladder be almost as good, at a lot less cost and cost to the environment?
That would definitely be a better alternative. Or… how about this: Instead of just showing up, having their picture taken, and then walking home, everyone at the protest sits down in the sand and writes a letter to a member of Congress urging support for the No New Drilling Act?
An even better idea, Green Man, wish I’d thought of it.
Great thought… Man we sure have some inconsistencies in our views!
Zeppelins are the future. I thought everybody knew that.
Popular Science says so.