Comments on: BP and Big Oil: Shut Down America’s Greenwashing Machine

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By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:26:20 +0000

We have a candidate that just won her spot in the republican primary by spending eighty million dollars on her campaign. Fatalism?
Can we look at the greed-based holocaust perpetuated in the Gulf as an incentive to ride our bikes to work? We should, but no, we ride our bikes when we think about how good it is for the planet, and how much the exercise is going to make us healthy. Then, when we need to run to the grocery store, the word “run” doesn’t enter our mind, nor does our bicycle.
I know how much we need to Go Green. If we had adopted the Kyoto agreement, we would have prevented 64 quadrillion tons of CO2 from being dumped into our atmosphere in the next twenty years. We can’t change that by not filling up at BP. We have to do more than just march around the mall. When Exxon refused to pay for the cleanup after the Exxon Valdez spilled 11,000,000 gallons of oil their assests should have been seized for payment, but instead they have shown the largest profits in corporate history, quarter after quarter. They still haven’t paid the bill, and we aren’t boycotting them. They just keep raking it in. You have already made a great point about BP, but do you think it will be different this time?
Going Green is a grand idea. It can certainly stave off the impending energy crisis, but the plain and simple of it is that we are a species that consumes, and we have never shown the will to stop ourselves when there is still anything left to consume.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:23:15 +0000

Ray, I agree. That’s why it will never be a Senator that changes things. Very few will stand up against the oil bigwigs. Although there are a few Congresspersons that do stand up against such things on a regular basis and have been successful in their own right – Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders are a few. That being said, your point is exactly why I urge people not to buy into BP and the GW machine in this post. I really do understand and share your skepticism. Our system is set up to keep politicians campaigning year round and our capitalism is set up to control our democracy. But I don’t think that fatalism has ever gotten this country anywhere. And I will keep encouraging anyone who will listen that it is possible to stop offshore drilling or any other situation requiring activism. Indeed it is the only way anything has ever changed. I just hope that in my lifetime the very real scenario that you describe will change. Thanks for writing in.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:03:11 +0000

Geothermal will not run your car, and it won’t make plastic blister packs, so I guess that we still need to drill for oil.
There are really thousands of reasons to drill for oil, and just like big tobacco or big pharm, big oil contributes heavily to the economy of our elected representatives, who will never make them stop the drilling. Sure, there is a lot of embarrassment in Congress today, and finger wagging, but the smoke will clear and business will go back to the same old same old. The math is simple: To get elected, a Senator will spend about $35,000,000. He’s in office for 2190 days in his six year term. That means, in order to get re-elected, he has to raise $16,000 every single day that he is in office. Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays. So he will posture and puff, but the bottom line is that he needs their campaign contributions to stay in office, so after everything is considered, it will end up just like the Exxon Valdiz, where the oil giant got hollered at but didn’t have to pay the bill.

By: Taylen

Taylen — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:26:04 +0000

Jennifer, exactly right on point. We need to stop subsidizing these energy sources. If people like Rush truly wanted a “free market” (which they always claim is what makes the US so great and will fight to the death for) they need to quit trying to stop solar, wind, etc. No more subsidies for oil/coal will make a truly free market.

And the Sierra Club actually set up a really clever fundraising campaign after Rush made that claim that they should pay for the cleanup. People could come to the website and make a donation on Rush’s behalf in hopes of making him the biggest financial contributor for the year, haha!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:30:44 +0000

There was a joke going around on Twitter a few weeks ago: “Breaking News: Large Air Spill Reported at Wind Farm. No Threats Reported. Some claim to enjoy the breeze.” It seems so shortsighted to keep pursuing an energy source with so many drawbacks when we really should be putting our time, energy, and money into renewables — while cutting down on our energy usage as a whole.

Don’t even get me started about Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh (who is now apparently blaming the Sierra Club for the spill, of all ridiculous things).

By: Brittany

Brittany — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:10:24 +0000

Us solar folks? Ooooo0o0o0oh the big bad renewable energy monsters! Pardon us for keeping you up at night, good sir.

By: Taylen

Taylen — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:36:48 +0000

millions of products are made from petrol, but that’s not the point. it’s cutting back our usage that is key so that there are fewer and fewer oil rigs. fewer rigs means fewer chances for major problems like this. sorry to tell you that continuing to ruin places like the Great Barrier Reef, the Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, and ANWR, along with countless other places that have had disasters, it NOT the answer.

solar panels don’t leak toxic death onto mother earth…

By: heywood yablome

heywood yablome — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:53:00 +0000

oops sorry to tell you solar folks this but solar panels are made from petroleum based chemicals so do away with oil and no chance for solar panels you folks are the kind that scare me