No-Big Oil’s Predations are not Your Fault - By Juan Cole

[kpete]

Big Oil’s Predations are not Your Fault
Posted on June 15, 2010 by Juan

No, the BP oil volcano in the Gulf of Mexico is not your fault, despite what many pundits will tell you. Back in the 1960s when the environmental movement got going, major US corporations responsible for much of the nation’s pollution decided to fight it by paying for television advertising that urged individuals not to litter, thus implying that pollution is produced by anarchic individuals rather than by organized businesses. It was a crock then and it is a crock now.

You did not demand that BP consistently cut safety corners more than any other petroleum company, thus resulting in the Deepwater Horizon calamity, which could end up costing the economy of the Gulf of Mexico literally hundreds of billions of dollars this year.

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I do know that many congressional Democrats see the current tragedy as a once-in-a-century opportunity to reformulate energy policy away from petroleum, and that they will need an outpouring of public support and of public donations to pull that off.

If you don’t support them in this push to begin getting away from hydrocarbons, then whatever follows– will be your fault.

more:
http://www.juancole.com/2010/06/big-oils-predations-are-not-your-fault.html

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Takes me back to the Iron Eyes Cody commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM

[Big Blue Marble]

2. Brilliant summation of exactly what I have been

saying every time I hear the meme; we are responsible for this nightmare. That statement is pure propaganda.