America's Largest Environmental Disaster
BP and the finest minds of the government and the oil patch cannot manage to shut off the blown out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. It is now by far the largest environmental disaster America has ever faced. Well so much for deregulation and self regulation. All these assholes who supported deregulation, and there are even a few so stupid that they still support it, need to get down on their knees and very sincerely beg for forgiveness.
In the next few months we will see if America and mankind are now completely doomed. Or are we capable of making rational decisions which will help mankind survive?
Until there is honest, open, and peer reviewed proof that new methods have been found which will make this absolutely not happen again, and if it does happen make us be able to shut off the flow, this deep water drilling needs to cease. Maybe all drilling under water. Don't forget that the original crisis in drilling under water occurred off the coast of Southern California in about 200 feet of water.
Oil and gas provided by these under water well heads is a fairly small part of what America is currently consuming. It is true that all the “easy” oil and gas has now been mined. Our options at this point are to either transfer all the national wealth to the lunatics in the middle east who hate us, or we cause intolerable environmental damage by continuing with this drilling under water.
So is there any answer which will work? Yes, there really is. For the last 4,000 miles my car has averaged more than 60 mpg. The air conditioner works great, and the car is safe and comfortable to drive. America uses several times more energy per person than other advanced countries like those in western Europe. We need to stop being so wasteful.
Or we can continue being wasteful. All of our wealth will gradually be transferred to the Arab sheiks in the middle east. We will become a second or third rate, poor country. Italy and Greece used to be great powers. Same with Turkey. Now look at them. The same thing will happen to us unless we cut our military-defense-intelligence spending by about 75%, and stop our wasteful life style. We can still have well air conditioned buildings and drive comfortable cars. We just need to do it more sensibly. Or not. It is up to this generation of young people.
Frankly I'm not at all impressed with this group of people who are just now getting out of college and starting their careers. Many of them are totally self centered, have little empathy, and don't like personal interaction. They prefer to communicate by texting and are more than a little spoiled and lazy. I rather doubt that they have what it will take to solve these important matters.
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