I just dropped Ava at Grandmama's, driving in my car listening to Pacifica radio. They have a community call-in segment around 9 am. A woman caller can on the line just fuming about the Obama's administration for the handling of the BP oil spill crisis. She just got me all riled by not in agreement with her.
What this president has had to endure in just the last two years astounds me. As a public we are never pleased, we are ugly and harsh. We do not take responsibility for our own actions. If we did, BP would not have the power they do. We would not be beholden to our cars. I think this administration is doing the best that they can in a very difficult situation. The culture of the oil industry did not start with him. Anyone around her can tell you how awful BP's safety record is. I am amazed not more stuff has happened.
It is absolutely sad that were such a terribly reactive culture instead of preventative. We do not tend to do anything unless it is a crisis. It's while the levies broke and why our healthcare is a mess. Then the greed and BP is the worst of them. It was the bottom line they were thinking of when the rig went up in the middle of the gulf. If nothing had happened then we as a culture would be fine with business as usual. I am not even sure how to even boycott BP. I know their oil is used in a lot of areas that we do not realize.
What I would love to see is a channeling of our anger into action for real reform of the oil industry and alternative fuel sources. It is sad it takes disaster for us to even think this way. And I am not even sure it will move that way instead I think we could vote out a good president and allow republicans in charge. YAhhoooo our saviors.
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