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A fresh look at the Oil Companies by Colin Beavan July 19, 2010

Filed under: #eco — prbylula @ 2:56 pm

When an alcoholic leaves a bar, gets behind the wheel and drunkenly drives into his third or fourth wreck, do you blame the bartender who served the drinks or the alcoholic who drank them? Now answer this: When a society addicted to greater and greater fossil fuel use experiences what may amount to the largest oil spill in world history – after a growing number of other fossil fuel catastrophes – do you blame the oil company that drilled for the oil or the society that uses it?

I mean, I get it. If you’re anything like me, you’re pissed as hell at BP, the company whose deep-water oil well continues to gush some 60,000 barrels of oil a day, nobody knows exactly how much, into the Gulf of Mexico…

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