Well of course we gotta have our oil. I suppose ...

2010-05-03T12:20:34.381-04:00

Well of course we gotta have our oil.

I suppose it is necessary to get the villains (corporations), make 'em pay and pay. Really, they should and hundreds if not thousands of people in the oil industry should be rendered jobless for their complicity in this crime -- staff from top to bottom should pay.

And all the dividends from profits being ploughed into pension funds adinistered by big business on behalf of teachers and workers pension funds should all be seriously diminished for their complicity in profiting from all big industry and corporations.

I pronounce myself complicitous because a portion of my pension comes from the profits of big oil among others.

To my credit, I never owned a car, van, truck, so I was not that grossly complicitous with big oil cartels compared with the selfish pigs who owned and drove motor vehicles and polluted the air that I breathe and my son breathes with their second-hand carbon monoxide. Owners and drivers of cars should be made to pay through the nose for this oil spill as well -- after all, it was they, with their petro demands that drove the wells in the first place. And there is the complicity of auto union workers making the vehicles that consume and polluute and demanding a bigger cut in the profits from big corporations that consume all that oil.

Why, it's as if everyone is a villain. Where I do I turn myself in?

The Gulf of Mexico spill is heart breaking, and no...

2010-05-03T11:47:43.089-04:00

The Gulf of Mexico spill is heart breaking, and not just because I like seafood.

Making BP Oil pay big for this is only fair and I hope Obama will do it, but he'd better not forget that other corporate villain in the story, Halliburton, owned by none other than former VP Dickhead Cheney. It's his company who apparently didn't quite cap the well properly in the first place.

BP, for its part, claimed in its design phase that a spill of this magnitude was next to impossible. I'd like to know which government flunky ok'd their plan.

For us here, CBC concluded quite reasonably that this could indeed happen in Canada too, and warned that with Arctic drilling in the works, that would be a spill we'd have little capability of containing, with no equipment on hand to fight it.

But hey, drill baby drill. Gotta have our oil no matter the costs.

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Well of course we gotta have our oil. I suppose ...

The Gulf of Mexico spill is heart breaking, and no...