You know, we might as well do this, because ultimately we’re going to do it anyway:

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist tells Buzz that he loves Sen. John McCain’s idea to lift the federal moratorium on off-shore drilling and let individual states decide whether to allow oil and gas exploration. He also said he wouldn’t rule out letting Florida opt to drill off-shore.

“Florida has one of the most pristine environments on the planet, and I’m committed to protecting it,” Crist told the St. Petersburg Times this evening. “But we also need to be pragmatic. We need to protect Florida and America’s economy, and I look forward to the discussion.”

Whether he’d support a decision by the Florida Legislature to drill depends on “how far (from shore), how safe, how protective of our environment it would be – there’s many contingencies that would have to go into it,” he said.

The main contingency being, we need to keep those Hummers running long as we can.

A rational society would take a collective step back from this precipice and say, look, we can keep careening down this road that’s going to come to a dead end at some point anyway, we can drill and drill anywhere we might find a drop of oil, we can befoul the environment and screw up the planet even more to get every last drop out of the ground - or we can say no, we’re not going to take the Easter Island approach.

But we’re not a rational society. So you know as well as I which approach we’ll ultimately take.