Dr. Rachel Maddow updates the extent of the devastating impact that BP’s increasingly disastrous oil spill catastrophe is having in the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana’s coastline and sensitive marshlands are being consumed by toxic torrents of crude, and thousands of animals are being killed. The expanding horror of this is nauseating and utterly gut wrenching.
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Cheap gas turns out to be very expensive.
So, as we suspected, there is no way of dealing with the inevitable disasters of off-shore drilling.
Don’t let anyone get away with the old lie of complaining that fossil fuels are too expensive. The price we pay at the pump in no way reflects the true cost of these fuels.
What you both say is so true. There is no way to safely drill offshore without severe and expensive environmental damage. It is a dangerous toxic process that should cease to exist.
Last week my husband and I went for a walk on the state beaches north of Santa Barbara, near where offshore drilling exists. There was no “oil spill”, but our feet and legs were covered with sticky tar balls after just a few minutes of strolling on the shore. It took us two days to scrub the sticky crude off. When I asked a local about the pollution, he told me that was normal, and nobody walks barefoot on the beaches in the region because they are always so dirty from the drilling.
If that is normal for coastlines adjacent to offshore oil drilling, I can not even begin to imagine how utterly horrific the damage is going to be from this massive ever expanding oil spill in the Gulf.
So, as we suspected, there is no way of dealing with the inevitable disasters of off-shore drilling.
Don’t let anyone get away with the old lie of complaining that fossil fuels are too expensive. The price we pay at the pump in no way reflects the true cost of these fuels.