Last week Louisiana Judge Martin Feldman, who recently inexplicably overturned the Obama Administration’s offshore drilling moratorium, issued a statement flatly refusing to recuse himself from this case, even though he is heavily invested in offshore drilling and British Petroleum. Dr. Rachel Maddow highlights this, as well as just how incredibly pervasive the influence of the massive petroleum industry is within our government, academia and society. She clearly explains that we must fundamentally shift how we look at energy and what changes we desperately need to make today:
“The oil industry is the most profitable industry in the history of human enterprise, and as such it is basically the most influential too. Even if you look at the huge cost BP has incurred so far in cleaning up the disaster in the Gulf, it reached 4 billion dollars this week, that is still less than a third of BP’s profits from last year alone. If you look at all of the oil that has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico so far, as much as 184 million gallons of oil, you should know that all of that oil, everything in total that has spilled into the Gulf so far over this past 100 days, every bit of it represents a quarter of the oil we use in America in one day.”
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