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Just catching up on old papers/mail and noticed Mr. Goens' article "Political blame game doesn't work". I'm not sure why it is not posted online...

I agreed with Mr. Goens' analysis of the blame game (i.e., Obama is not to blame for the spill and the political blame game does no good), until he ironically turned around and decided to blame "our greed." Along with BP, he blamed us for "refusing to demand our government find an alternative that will break our dependency on oil."

The government has spent billions of taxpayer dollars on alternative energy research going back to the 1970s. Private investors and venture capitalists are spending record amounts (the prediction is $5 billion this year alone). But yet, according to Mr. Goens, the gulf spill is the fault of the taxpayers for not demanding that some alternative be found. If science has not yet bowed to billions of dollars, why should it bow to public pressure? Of course, the answer is that science does not work that way and neither do basic economic forces like supply and demand.

Blaming the public does no good and is quite silly.
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Originally posted by Chuck Norris:
If science has not yet bowed to billions of dollars, why should it bow to public pressure? Of course, the answer is that science does not work that way and neither do basic economic forces like supply and demand.


This is a reality that some people just refuse to accept. No inovation that has improved our standard of living has come from government decree. It has come from business and capital investment (I know it's "evil") that has served the needs of the market.

As far as science and alternative fuels...it's not POLITICAL it's PHYSICS...
I agree with both of you actually. BP should be the one that is blamed but not BP alone. Every single oil company should be held accountable.
Check this out.
The recent news surrounding the creation of a $20 billion escrow fund to pay for claims in the Gulf of Mexico has led to renewed attention in the past weeks to the $27 billion case against Chevron brought by indigenous people in the Amazon region of Ecuador.

The lawsuit which has stretched on for nearly 17 years seeks reparations for environmental- and health-related damages caused by the dumping of over 18 billion gallons of polluted water in Ecuador by Texaco between 1964 and 1990. Last week two protesters were arrested during a House Energy Committee meeting after attempting to give a bottle of contaminated water from the Amazon region to Chevron’s Chairman John Watson.

Chevron last week also faced an embarrassing oil spill of 500 barrels of oil from a leaking pipe, which devastated a lake at a local park in Salt Lake City, Utah.
read more about this here. Chevron

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