Think we'll get any takers?
Friday, August 08, 2008
wacky, dude
Hey, I got a crazy idea: Allow the oil companies to drill offshore, provided they sign a contract saying that they will pay for any spills they make, with some group(s?) like the Sierra Club as the arbiter of the cost of the clean-up. The contract will specify that if they do not pay, their assets, or the assets of their stockholders (the largest holders at the time of the spill first) will be seized until the cost of the clean-up is covered. Then, let'em get to work. It provides the nation with the fix it thinks it so desperately needs, but protects our coasts and wildernesses from corporate greed. The only problem will be in keeping the environmental groups from being infiltrated and co-opted.
Think we'll get any takers?
Think we'll get any takers?
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Can't say I disagree. And look for an mp3 audio preview by the end of the night on Sunday, BTW. All of the participants are getting one.
Yeah, I can't recommend holding your breath for this one.
let em drill away. too bad the gap before it comes in will be so damn long otherwise the public would remember being scammed.
The only answers our "leaders" have to the energy question is "More Oil!". We already use 25%, seems that there ought to be a much better answer than that, like, maybe, use less?
Nahhh!!!
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