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Gulf oil spill highlights the need for fuel alternatives

The tragic oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico appears to be creating a backlash against US investment into offshore drilling.

Two Republican senators in the US, Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Charlie Crist of Florida have since withdrawn their support for drilling in the ocean as a result of the accident.

Oil has been escaping at a rate of 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) a day since 20 April, after an explosion on a BP-leased rig, the BBC reports.

Opposition to US policy over drilling deep underwater for oil has been been steadily growing since the explosion last month, which sunk the Deepwater Horizons oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven oil rig workers are missing-presumed to be dead after the explosion. It has been claimed to be the worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989.

The spill has been steadily growing and spreading after BP’s attempt to cap the oil flow using a containment box failed on Saturday (May 8, 2010).

Environmentalists say that this is proof that US policy over oil needs to change and that more investment into alternatives is needed.

“The oil catastrophe in the Gulf should serve as a wake-up call,” said US Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica. “Offshore drilling is inherently dirty and dangerous, and it doesn’t belong in our nation’s energy policy. Unfortunately, instead of acting in the nation’s interest, President Obama has followed the lead of Sarah Palin.”

“There are all sorts of ways to meet our nation’s energy needs without new drilling. Investments in public transportation, electrified rail, and stronger fuel economy standards are just a few examples. President Obama and Congress should pursue these policies and ban offshore drilling,” Pica added.

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Faye Sunderland, May 10, 2010
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Tom Degan

But for the stupidity of deregulation this mess might have been avoided.

Roll the opening credits….

MGM PRESENTS
ANDY HARDY GETS A CLUE

The Camera fades from black onto a house in a pleasant neighborhood in the mythical Midwestern town of Carvel. The home is the residence of kindly Judge Hardy and his family. The scene dissolves into the interior of the Judge’s study. He is sitting in his leather-bound chair in front of the fireplace, concentrating on a small stack of legal briefs which are placed on his lap. There is a quiet knock on the door. “Come in”, he says. From camera left enters the Judge’s fifteen-year-old son, Andy Hardy:

Andy Hardy: Dad? I was wondering if we could have a little talk, you know, man to man.

Judge Hardy: What is it, Andrew?

Andy Hardy: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about deregulation.

Judge Hardy: In what way, son?

Andy Hardy: Well, Dad, I’m starting to think that deregulation might not have been a really neat idea.

Judge Hardy: No sh*t, Sherlock.

http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan

May 10, 2010

Earl Richards

Buy solar panels.

May 10, 2010

SPO101

Isn’t it coincidence that the WORST environmental disaster in human history will affect “drill baby DRILL” Red States Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and crazy South Carolina? Not to mention Tennessee and Kentucky getting hit with un-heard-of flooding.
Georgia experiencing years of drought and Oklahoma multi-funnel tornados.

(Lloyd the Baptist was right… Every Conservative wacko in America will be burning in HELL by 2012. see: post on jinnbad.blogspot.com)

Progressives have been WARNING you ignorant redneck Right-Wingers for decades but you HARDHEADS choose to listen to the corporate spokespersons like Limbaugh, Palin, Beck, Robertson, Hagee etc… HOW’S THAT WORKING FOR YA? (…and FOX News is owned by the Saudi Royals)

TAKE A HINT!

It’s as though GOD himself has come down from heaven to rub Republican/Conservative noses in the evil BS they’ve spewed for the last few years. It seems like just yesterday that Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck worked their groupies into a cult frenzy with calls for off-shore oil DRILLING.

IF Democrats/Progressives were degenerates like Republicans/Conservatives we’d probably come up with something vicious and cruel like “we don’t want our tax dollars used to save your Red State fishing or tourism industry”. But the LEFT-WING really DOES love the USA and wouldn’t kick our fellow citizens when they’re down like the right-wing mental deficient’s do.

Get the government out of your lives, right? LET the Corporations have their way? THIS IS WHAT YOU GET! Profits over patriotism or the least bit of human dignity, social or environmental concerns. You think the multi-national corporations care about the American PEOPLE? Hell NO! Maybe you Conservative wackos didn’t notice but Corporations are the ones who moved all your good paying jobs to Communist China and caused the meltdown of our economy WITH THE HELP OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY…

I want to know something else… WHY is it that every other civilized nation on the planet, EXCEPT the USA, REQUIRES Oil drilling operations to have back up plans and top shelf shut off valves in case of emergency? I guess British Petroleum thought $500,000 was TOO MUCH for a workable shut off system. I know they LOBBIED in 2003 against the US government putting such REGULATION into place… (and I heard Cheney’s Halliburton is involved with this and other spills)
NOTE: search Greg Palast
Ohhhh and isn’t it telling the Times Square idiot bomber tried to make a hasty escape to Dubai? …Just like Dick Cheney’s Halliburton. A corporation who made a fortune from shoddy workmanship. Unlike the average American, corporations like Halliburton, Massey Energy and British Petroleum can get away with shoddy workmanship, mining explosions and oil spill disasters because the Republican Party (and some Blue Dog Democrats) are their paid for Ho’s…

IT’S ACCOUNTABILITY TIME! If the PEOPLE don’t DEMAND IT now then you don’t deserve rights and freedoms the USA represents. Conservative wacko’s are always calling the French cowards but at least during the French Revolution the PEOPLE had the balls to make Aristocrats pay the price for their acts of evil.
consciousmc.blogspot.com

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
According to anti-gay activists George Rekers and James Dobson from the so-called Family Research Council… The Male Model/Escort industry has a great future in Republican Party politics… lol
GOP – Gay Old Party

May 11, 2010

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