BP keeps trying to plug up the oil well, but “top kill” is looking like the same old road kill…
Any lessons to be learned here?
*You can’t outsource oil drilling and the regulation of oil drilling to oil companies. The US should either develop a capability to handle these disasters, or, more preferably, ban drilling altogether.
*For all the crocodile tears shed by Gulf Coast politicians, there’s absolutely no support for getting the US off its fossil fuel addiction. A large tax on oil/gas and/or some sort of cap/trade system is the only way Americans will ever get serious about alternative energy production.
*When large corporations effectively control the political process through campaign contributions, and are able to spin a very ignorant media into doing their bidding, there’s not much hope for equality of opportunity, let alone serious policy debates. 10 million unemployed is barely registering on our elites’ radar, and the fossil fuel-generated poverty of Lousiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky has not changed for decades.
Gorilla says: “The body politic is being killed from the top down!”
