Do you get a feeling of deja vu about the gulf oil spill? There’s a good reason.
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If you are offended by profanity, don’t watch this video. Otherwise, it should be required viewing: Meanwhile, testimony of the oil rig workers indicates that BP made a “fundamental mistake” that led to the explosion and blowout. But there is going to be plenty of blame to go around.
© Tom Tomorrow BP claiming that nobody could have predicted the gulf oil disaster. Rush Limbaugh arguing that the gulf oil disaster was a deliberate act by “hardcore environmental wackos”.
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© Walt Handelsman Are they containing the spill, or containing the news? Meanwhile, the GOP — for the second time — moved to make sure that we taxpayers pay for the oil spill, rather than BP.
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© Matt Bors I find the way corporations use words to be very ironic. Several people have pointed out that in order for something to be called a “spill”, whatever is spilling must have been contained beforehand. The Exxon Valdez was a spill, because the oil was contained in a tanker before it was spilled. […]
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Reagan famously stated that government was not the solution, government was the problem (while simultaneously growing government at unprecedented rates). But I’ve always thought that the reason Republicans believe government is always the problem is because they don’t know how to govern. Of course, there is an alternative theory that they want to prove that […]
© Joel Pett What’s slicker than an oil spill? How about oil companies that make billions in profits, don’t pay any US taxes, and still get the government to help pay for their accidents.
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John Cole has a revolutionary idea — let’s let the free market take care of things. His brilliant idea? Make the oil companies responsible for the total clean up cost of their oil spills. If they can’t pay, they go bankrupt. That might make them a bit more safety conscious. After the Exxon Valdez disaster, […]
© Ed Stein Instead of “Drill, Baby Drill” conservatives should be chanting “Blow, Baby Blow”. Wind farms cost less to operate than coal or oil-fired plants, and as this comic points out it is difficult to imagine a major environmental catastrophe caused by a wind farm accident. Early concerns about birds being killed by wind […]
Michael Brown, the crony appointment ex-FEMA director famous for his horribly botched response to Hurricane Katrina that cost hundreds of lives, object of the infamous “Heckuva job, Brownie” quote from Dubya, and for being removed from his job, is now an expert on oil spills according to Fox News. During the interview, Brown claims: The […]
