Progressive columnist and crank Jim Hightower penned a fact-free story the other day in attempt to slander the oil and natural gas industry. Hightower apparently thinks ridicule and sarcasm are compelling arguments but the facts indicate otherwise.

Progressives and professional activists never seem to let a good tragedy go to waste. This time it’s Jim Hightower and his laughable analysis of the Colorado flooding tragedy. Hightower goes straight to the bottom right off the bat when he claims the people of that state face “added horror” of “poisonous contaminants pouring out” of sites that “pock the area.”

Sounds pretty bad, and that’s just one sentence. We will look at the facts of the situation in a second, but let’s first look at his rhetoric. Hightower uses language intended to incite emotional responses instead of advancing the discussion, an all too common tactic among those who would turn our country upside down to implement their utopian visions.

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