Leftist Political Leader Has Oil Field Named After Him

Popular lefty politicians usually want hospitals, schools, roads, and sundry august institutions named after them to burnish their legacy. So it is a little strange, and yet refreshing, to see that Brazil's immensely popular former president has had his name affixed to an ... oil field. Brazil's massive Tupi oil field, that has spawned a not-to-be-believed gold rush of development of Brazil's oil sector, has been renamed "Lula". Every future hospital, school, road, etc. just may owe its existence to the vast national wealth created by tapping Brazil's oil deposits, so Lula must know that his name cannot be more at the center of Brazil's future as it is with this memorial. I guess lefties can appreciate the indispensability of abundant, cheap energy to economic growth and higher standards of living after all. Just goes to show you how in thrall our lefties here in the US are to a declinist radical green agenda that this would be inconceivable here. I said climate change legislation was doomed due to national greatness agendas that were based on oil wealth, but this is the perfect metaphor for what I was talking about. If only all those numbnuts at Copenhagen a few years ago had known that a massive oil field would be named after the left of center President of one of the world's largest and fastest growing economies, then we all could have saved ourselves alot of time, effort and heartache.

UPDATE: Apparently the global warming/climate change/climate chaos crowd is still gnashing its teeth over this stuff. Give it up guys, they're naming oil fields after lefty pols now! Get a clue, your agenda is sunk. Sunk as in rotting at the bottom of the ocean. Move on.