Rollings stones "The Spill, The Scandal and the President" goes into a full out bashing faulting Obama, Bush and pretty much anyone who doesn't work for them in "The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world's most dangerous oil company get away with murder"
I will not summarize it here as it is "a little too critical and after the fact".
It is a "good article" highlighting the massive problems we had, have and will continue to struggle with...
This would have been a GREAT article in 2008. Now it is just a hard reminder of severity of choices we have to make when we reach peak energy resources...
At the end of the day Rolling stone staffers will fill up their cars with BP gasoline, power their presses with coal derived energy and print them on papers from protected forests using inks derived by OIL.
I guess that's why it's easier to throw stones than roll em ;-)
At the end of the day Rolling stone staffers will fill up their cars with BP gasoline, power their presses with coal derived energy and print them on papers from protected forests using inks derived by OIL.
I guess that's why it's easier to throw stones than roll em ;-)
Related?
- Why anger towards BP is largely misplaced
- If There Was Ever a Moment to Seize Here's the president on March 31st,announcing his plan to lift a longstanding moratorium on offshore drilling: "Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs, and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable, homegrown energy."