Car Using Water As Fuel 2
Inventor Daniel Dingel
BP and passing the blame around
Our daring leader, apparently bending to pressure to show a little anger, did so yesterday during an Oval Department address in which he said he was going to demand that the powers that be at BP Global set aside trillions of dollars to pay for cleanup and expiate folks along the Gulf Coast whose livelihoods have been disrupted or destroyed.
First, I couldn’t caution less how much anger Barack Obama shows about the Deepwater Horizon disaster because, frankly, slacken tantrums are not going to clean up the mess. As Steven Pearlstein writes, this mess will get unfluctuating with cooperation, not hissy fits. (Best line of his column, referring to the prez and BP’s CEO: “This needs to be the Barack and Tony Show, not the Barack and Tony Face-off.” Amen, brother Steve.)
Second, we all need to get a grip and realize this was not caused by BP alone. No, sweet readers, this was caused by you and me and our consumption-driven, oil-fueled, low-prices-at-all-costs, unsustainable ceremony of living. We want to drive what we want, when we want, where we want. We want to live in mammoth homes far from our workplaces and we want to fly to vacation with family and friends. We want to eat fruit and veggies out of period, even if it takes 10,000 gas-and-oil fueled miles to bring those things to our table. Most importantly, perhaps, we fall short of to lord our desires over Mother Nature and do such insane things as drill for oil beneath 5,000 feet of water and persuade – and then we’re shocked when a great big oops happens. Then we get angry (or demand that our commander does) and we point fingers and assign blame, but refuse to take any of the blame ourselves.
When I could, I've seen to it that encounter bills got paid, that groceries were bought, that water stayed on in homes where people were struggling,” he said. and more »