Rick Archer wrote: > 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.
What we needed is a Jimmy Carter moment from Obama rather than telling the nation "to pray." How ridiculous is that? Gee, with that kinda thinking Bevan ought to be on the phone right now with Obama offering to send Fairfield bun bouncers to the Gulf. Carter's energy speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KjHwi6whtQ Carter's energy policy was set into law and then the Reagan goons pee'd all over it. Thom Hartmann was saying this morning we need to teach Obama how to be a good "Democrat" but I think he's too busy trying to be a "Good Republican." Hartmann also suggested that Obama should have had federal marshalls on hand for today's meeting and arrest the BP crew. Mike Malloy last night commented that it was a good Bush speech and that Bush had somehow gotten younger looking and darker skinned.
