You Just Had To Know April 30, 2010
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Environment, Politics.trackback
I’ve suspected since the incident occurred that the disasterous oil spill about to wipe out the Mississippi River Delta, 41% of the US fishing industry, and a huge swath of irreplacable wetlands was the fault of none other than our old buddy, George W. Bush, but I’ve held my tongue up until now. But you just had to know that Dubya, his oil industry cronies, and the rest of the robber baron indulstrialists who virtually gutted the EPA from 2000 through 2008 were at the root of this horror. Now Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and seventeen other lawyers have filed suit against BP on behalf of two commercial fisheries in Louisiana. It turns out that there was a safety device that could have prevented this spill, a safety device that is required on offshore rigs in Europe, a safety device that was required on US rigs before the requirement was summarily dropped by the Bush administration, a safety device that BP saved a few sheckels on while making a couple billion dollars a day. It’s obscene. And it was Bush’s fault. There, I said it.
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