Let's start with the "Big Oil Bailout Prevention Liability Act of 2010", S. 3305 and

[G_j]

Hold BP, Halliburton and TransOcean Fully Responsible For The Gulf Oil Catastrophe


The President offered the excuse the other day that the reason why
there was inadequate environmental vetting for what has become the
Deep Horizon oil disaster was that a provision of law had passed
which only permitted 30 days for such a review, making it a practical
impossibility. Of course, that is precisely why corporate lobbyists
for the oil industry inserted into law this crippling of any
attempted regulatory oversight in the first place.

So too with the liability limitation of million on corporate
responsibility for wreaking havoc on our environment. Again, this was
just another corporate irresponsibility safety valve, so they would
not have to even concern themselves about putting all the rest of us
in grave danger. And so they did. It is even being reported that
Transocean made a whopping $270 million profit on the destruction of
their over-insured drilling rig.

Each and every one of these corporate "get out of jail and liability
free" cards must be immediately rescinded, starting with passage of
the "Big Oil Bailout Prevention Liability Act of 2010", S. 3305.
Republican Senators like Murkowski (from Alaska, home of Exxon
Valdez) actually had the gall to argue that "smaller" oil companies
should not be held liable at all for destroying our planet.

Hold Oil Companies Accountable action page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1046.php

The action page link above will send your personal message to all
your members of Congress and President Obama too, by blast fax. You
do not need to have your own fax machine. Just submit the action page
and our server will automatically send all your faxes for you to be
delivered electronically.


The fact is that the oil catastrophe in the Gulf is just the first of
many planetary scale cataclysms coming within decades, unless we have
fundamental and profound energy policy change starting NOW. Just as
we now watch scientists and engineers helpless to stem the tide of
the Deepwater Horizon oil blow out, it will likewise be even more so
if and when the melting of the polar ice caps becomes irreversible.

You might think, as the sickening waves of gloppy crude start
smothering beaches and wetlands from Louisiana to the Florida keys,
that some of the "Drill, baby, drill" crowd might be doing some
serious soul searching about the end path of current energy policy.
But mostly they are just hollering for the federal government to come
rushing in to bail them out. But who's going to bail out the state of
Florida when half of it is under water from rising sea levels?

Well, the federal government has done plenty, for many decades,
through the grandstanding corporate owned shills that they keep
electing to Congress, to pass precisely the laws that made such a
disaster so inevitable ... again. In point of fact, the 75 million
dollar liability limit was inserted into the original so-called
"reform" bill in the aftermath of the original Exxon Valdez disaster,
just as every other reform bill as far back as the eye can see has
been made toothless because of pressure from corporate special
interests. And so now we see the result of a failure to impose
decisive and real reform, an even bigger calamity.

Recently, the credit card reform bill, the health care reform bill,
and soon to be the finance reform bill and the energy reform bill,
have all been worthless and cruel jokes on the hopes of the American
people for real change. Each and every one of these bills have been
made ultimately ineffective by design and intent, driven by the
corporate dictators that members of Congress now serve exclusively.

And NOTHING is going to change, not a damn thing, we are just going
to keep reliving bigger and bigger disasters, UNTIL enough of you
folks open your mouths, stop giving the corporate cronies in your own
party a pass for partisan reasons, and start demanding legislation in
the interest of the people and ONLY the people from now on.


350 PPM Or Catastrophe Caps:
http://www.peaceteam.net/message_items.php

And here is the Facebook link for the Hold The Oil Companies
Accountable action page further above.

Action Page:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1046

And this is the Twitter reply for this same action

@cxs #p1046

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[Kalun D]

1. Kick and Recommend

Kick and Recommend

At some point in the middle of all this carnage you have to ask yourself "what can I do?"

I say there needs to be an organized boycott of BP.

How come nothing like this ever happens on DU? There's a lot of discussion here, a lot of passion, but there's never any action.

This place should be like MoveOn.org, where something actually gets done instead of just a bunch of talk

there should be a pledge thread, a pledge to boycott BP and everyone that belongs to this forum should have to pledge participation or be banned.

It should come up the next time everyone logs in, pledge or be banned

[obxhead]

2. umm no

I am already down with a boycott of BP and all of it's products (castrol, arco, am pm to name a few) but I don't need DU demanding I take action in a specific cause or leave/be banned. Thats simply not logical and would be the end of DU.

[Kalun D]

3. I'm being Hyperbolic

but they could at least suggest it.

I'm serious on my point though

for all this interconnection, discussion and exchange of ideas.

This huge democratic network

how come there's no action here?

[G_j]

4. **

[Scuba]

5. Nationalize BP now. Use future profits to clean up the mess and compensate victims.

[G_j]

6. ++

[glitch]

7. Reverse the bushian logic - instead of waving the EIR to get permit within 30 days they should have

simply denied the permit.

Can't get an EIR done in the time allotted by Congress? No permit. Turn their lobbyist bullshit back on them.