GOPer's Spokesperson: My Boss Would Never Say Oil Grows On Trees
A spokesman for Congressman Bill Sali is disputing a quote now going around the blogs, in which the Idaho Republican reportedly said that there are up to 40 barrels of crude oil in every tree. Needless to say, such a claim would be scientifically erroneous.
"I wasn't there," spokesman Wayne Hoffman told Election Central, "but I can assure you he didn't say there's 40 barrels of oil in a tree."
It's been noted that Sali said something virtually identical in 2006, when he was quoted by the Spokane Spokesman-Review saying that "Forty percent of the mass of every tree in the forest is crude oil."
Hoffman told us that the 2006 quote was "out of context."
Sali might have been referring to cellulosic ethanol in a very awkward fashion. "He believes there's a lot of potential for that, found right here in Idaho," Hoffman said.
Republicans by and large seem to have peaked in the education department at right around the sixth grade.
August 15, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, we do know there's 40 pounds of lard in Idaho Congressmen anyway...
August 15, 2008 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love oprah
but your comment reminded me ofa joke I heard years ago
ya heard that oprah got arrested at the airport? Seems she was smuggling about 60 pounds of crack under her dress.
but the best oprah joke goes like this
seems oprah needed to see her shrink. the appointment started like any other, but soon her therapist asked her to disrobe and go stand by the wall. She was quite confused, but did as he asked. Then he asked her to go over by the other wall, and then a third spot. She finally asked what the hell was going on, and he said he was getting a leather couch for the office and wanted to see how it would look.
August 16, 2008 12:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
What is this bull doing here? Are you trying to invite accusations of racism?
August 16, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I find the whole thing pretty sali!
August 15, 2008 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Next thing you know they will be saying that trees cause polution.
Wait, didn't Reagan already make that claim.
August 15, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
if the aid wasn't there, how does he know this wasn't said ???
stupidity compounded by lies
how repuglitarded of them
August 15, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
The reporters the aid was talking to weren't there either.
To provide balanced coverage, one reporter reports what Sali said, then another the aid's denial.
See? Balanced coverage, and the reporters don't have to do the hard work required to call the aid a liar.
August 16, 2008 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't care if he said it, or not.
As far as I'm concerned, he said it. A GOP congressman believes petroleum can be harvested from trees.
Just like I remember that Al Gore invented the internet.
August 15, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually . . . He is correct . . . And after a little time, pressure and heat . . . say . . . in 300 million years, we can drill for it.
August 15, 2008 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
don't trees turn into coal if anything?
August 15, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, and we can turn our cars into steam-powered engines and run them on Kingsford briquets.
August 16, 2008 2:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
You may be on to something here...
Bury the trees today, so that our great-great-great-great-grandchildren can have lower gas prices! Repubs should really hop on this bandwagon.
August 15, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clearly another Idaho Republican to avoid in the airport men's room.
August 15, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Trees do not turn into oil even after 300 million years. But dumbass congressmen do turn into millionaire lobbyist's within minutes of being defeated in reelection bids
August 15, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amazing, isn't it, to see the lesser minds coming to grips with our energy/culture crisis.
The end of oil means the end of many of our cultures favorites.....easy transport, easy heating, easy cooling, making crops grow far beyond normal, eliminating work thru machinery...etc.
These people are grasping at anything that can keep our oil-culture going. I am not saying they are all in the bag for oilmen....just that they are stuck being oil-creatures like the majority of americans. They are only dimly aware of what challenges we really face, but the loss of their cars and jetsetting and some of the more obvious troubles comieng our way scares the bejesus out of them. Scares me, too, but I am not grasping at straws and whigging out on the petty stuff.
But we can count on seeing more bombastic, outrageous, get-rich-quick thinking from our lesser lights. And it is going to be hell, keeping all the rednecks and material girls from jumping at every piece of junk science that comes down the pike. It really is going to hurt serious, long term actions when panicky people who never used their long-term vision, start bumping against physical facts and realities.
August 16, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a stool--er-tool.
August 16, 2008 9:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does this mean that China is working in Cuba on a plot to steal all our oil trees?
August 17, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is 40 barrels of oil in each tree; providing they all happen to be olive trees. roflmao
August 17, 2008 11:47 PM | Reply | Permalink