Where Did All That Oil Come From? Srsly?

Posted on April 22, 2009 by

Words can not describe the mind-boggling nature of the video below (an exception to my no YouTube rule). Call me gobsmacked…



I blame the Texas Board of Education…
The funny thing – well, okay, there is a lot to laugh at – is that Rep Barton (R – Cliffs of Insanity) thinks he got the better of the exchange!

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7 Responses

  1. Stephanie Z, on April 22, 2009 at 10:09 pm said:

    I thought, I’ve been dealing with stupid all evening. How bad can it really be? Now I know.

  2. DuWayne, on April 23, 2009 at 12:08 am said:

    I don’t know, that stupid is strong, oh so strong. But the stupid at Stephanie’s is coming from someone who you can respond to and amusingly, keeps responding back…

  3. Mike Haubrich, FCD, on April 23, 2009 at 12:41 am said:

    I sent Barton an e-mail from his website asking him to study up on petroleum geology before he tries to “stump” Chu again. Why are people so, not willfully ignorant but proudly ignorant?

  4. zayzayem, on April 23, 2009 at 4:04 am said:

    I can see why Barton can think he won. Chu definitely looks and sound puzzled. Though it’s probably more from being startled by teh stupid.
    Still would’ve thought an expert could explain it simply more easily (but maybe its because he was an expert).
    Barton does add a finishing blow by suddenly mentioning Alaska must have been warmer in the past (because all oil-fields are cold??)

  5. Reggio Emilio, on April 24, 2009 at 11:41 pm said:

    Was Chu puzzled, or was he just being diplomatic? He was definitely amused. The queston was abstruse and Chu’s confused, bemused and haltingly befuddled grand finale statement was like a fireworks display with the biggest boom at the end.

  6. afarensis, FCD, on April 25, 2009 at 12:18 am said:

    I think he was puzzled at where Barton was coming from – clearly Barton was asking a trick question aimed at global warming and Chu was trying to figure out how to explain oil formation, plate tectonics, and address the global warming subtext all in 6 seconds…

  7. nomuse, on April 28, 2009 at 7:07 pm said:

    Hrm. I don’t know the players well enough here, but it looked like Chu was originally startled and then too diplomatic to give the answer any of us would give a question that inane.

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