This oil spill exemplifies everything that is wrong with the United States..

.Where politicians are elected and sent to Washington , not to serve the people, but to serve the highest bidder.

. Where politicians will say anything and do anything for the party.. before the citizens.


. Where the media has turned into stenographers and cheer leaders for war..


. Where we spend unlimited Trillion$ on un-declared wars in the mideast, while the Electric car is moth-balled and oil seeps over the richest fishing grounds in the land.


. Somewhere our founding fathers are weeping over insanity and greed gone unchecked...

We all need to cry about this.

Multinationals are multinational.

Therein lies the danger.

Before oil, there was coal. Countless hundred of thousands killed digging it out of the earth. Ghastly pollution, in London England alone, hundreds, even thousands died every winter from the coal smoke.

Before coal, wood. Scotland used to be completely forested before it was stripped of trees to fire the steam boilers at the first factories of the Industrial Age. In my home town early 20th century there use to be huge mounds of sawdust (50 feet high, 50 feet across) from the saw mills piled along the river bank. In summer routine for them to burst into flame, often burning homes and buildings near by. The river was so polluted from the run offs from the mills that absolutely nothing could live in or near the water. A hospital had to be built just to take care of all injuries of the lumberjacks and mill workers.

Nothing has changed except there's a lot more of us wanting something for nothing that it's getting harder to ignore the consequences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_oil_spill

The Gulf War oil spill is regarded as the largest oil spill in history, resulting from actions taken during the Gulf War in 1991 by the Iraqi military.

It caused considerable damage to wildlife in the Persian Gulf especially in areas surrounding Kuwait and Iraq. Estimates on the volume spilled range from 42 to 462 million gallons; the slick reached a maximum size of 101 by 42 miles and was 5 inches thick. Despite the uncertainty surrounding the size of the spill, figures place it 5 to 27 times the size (in gallons spilled) of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and more than twice the size of the 1979 Ixtoc I blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to a study sponsored by UNESCO, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, the spill did little long-term damage. About half the oil evaporated, a million barrels were recovered and 2 million to 3 million barrels washed ashore, mainly in Saudi Arabia.<1>

may they rot in hell, every last one of them....

and cleaning it from marsh grasses that will absorb it like a sponge.

There is nothing that says this gusher won't rival -- or top -- the Gulf War spill. An anonymous source from BP says Deep Horizon is tapping 10s of millions of barrels.

Over dependence on personal cars (vice mass transit and bicycles and compact, walkable communities)

Making every home a miniature English manor house (with a McMansion yard)

A sociology dictating that our residence be remote from our work, our stores, our schools.

Which led us to a narcotic-like addiction to gasoline

---and 60% + of that gasoline was refines from imported oil

---too much of which was imported from places where they hate us.

But the biggest cause of the disconnect is the total corruption of our elected officials by the very agencies and systems that are supposed to protect the tax payers.

and we will have to use are minds for something real, like taking care of the earth.

the problem is the resources have to be used for "productive purposes", rather than to enrich Goldman Sachs.