Deepwater Horizon burning before it sank on Earth Day, April 22, 2010
Back in spite of popular demand: more offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas leasing, before the Gulf has even had a chance to recover from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. So far this year, the Obama administration has leased 3.4 million acres. Some leases are at depths of 11,200 feet or more.
The April 20, 2010 explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers, blackened beaches in five US states and devastated the Gulf Coast’s tourism and fishing industries.
It took 87 days to cap BP’s runaway well 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the surface that spewed some 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
It doesn’t matter who we vote for, apparently. The oil and gas industry will get what they want. Both major political parties serve the 1 Percent.
#1 by knight4444 on June 21, 2012 - 1:01 pm
But I’m the fool who keeps saying both parties work for the same master!! lol This corrupt country was rotten from day one!! the republicans sold out america a LONG time ago making sweetheart deals with the railroads, the bankers and the oil companies! But what do I know?? and the dems are playing catch up!!
#2 by Richard Warnick on June 21, 2012 - 1:35 pm
The only way out is to break the duopoly of the major political parties. You can vote for Rocky Anderson, but only folks who watch MSNBC and/or live in Utah know who he is.
http://www.voterocky.org/
#3 by knight4444 on June 21, 2012 - 2:40 pm
I don’t have cable tv ”by choice” I will research mr. Anderson for sure thanks.
#4 by cav on June 22, 2012 - 9:04 am
Obama as Cheney
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175560/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_the_cheney_effect_%28in_the_obama_administration%29_/?utm_source=TomDispatch&utm_campaign=bf2abd4b10-TD_Klare6_21_2012&utm_medium=email#more
#5 by cav on June 22, 2012 - 1:14 pm
Ah, but we – plutocrats and people alike — all beg, can’t we keep this damned Uncle locked up for just a little more time. Maybe until this election is over. Or until we’ve extracted a little more money from a fossil-fueled economy based on greed and exploitation. Or until … oh, I don’t know … until we’ve bled the last iota of money from the 99%? Or at least until … I get mine?
Can’t we pretend for just one more generation that capitalism – pure, unconstrained capitalism, the kind Reagan promised us would bring morning to America – isn’t instead bringing mourning to America, and to the world?
Can’t we just pretend, for one more generation, that the whole infinite growth on a finite world thing isn’t just a giant, tragic Ponzi Scheme designed to sell out the future?
Can’t we pass this problem onto them?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22