From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Hugo Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:11 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Obama gets tough with BP http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/15/barack-obama-oval-office-a ddress-bp-oil-spill
I think getting tough on polluting companies is a great idea. How about getting Union Carbide to clean up Bophal and pay some decent compensation there. And make Texaco pay for the appalling environmental damage and abuse they inflicted on the indigenous people in Ecuador. And then we can all sit back, drink some coffee and wake up a bit. We are running out of oil, so fast that we have to resort to stupidity like deep water drilling and raping Alaska for it's tar sands when really we should be cutting back and looking for alternatives. But how will that sit with the average American voter? Not very well is my guess, so unless the US wants to take steps to stop being the world number one gas guzzler they should shut up and get used to the fact that oil is going to become both more scarce, more expensive and potentially more dangerous to extract in the *very* near future. The minute the spill happened I felt it was Nature's way of telling us in no uncertain terms that we have to look to alternative energy sources. We don't change unless we're forced to. And even when it's obvious to any idiot that we need to, the Republicans oppose it.
