It is unfair and hypocritical of Obama and the US to criticse BP, in
the way that the company has been criticised, when taken in context
with the environmental havoc caused by/still being caused by the US
military and US companies SINCE Obama took up office.
Angela
On 19 Jun 2010, at 08:12, Marika Sherwood wrote:
> I think it is unfair to only criticise the USA and Obama. There is no
> shortage of British and other oil companies causing havoc. Or those
> that
> want to persuade people to grow biofuels, not food.
> The problem is with the whole capitalist system which is just about
> making
> as much money as possible for the already rich (and to create a few
> co-operative new ones). If the oil companies were not so powerful,
> wouldn't
> our universities have discovered some alternative mode of fuelling
> cars?
> Wouldn't the panels for generating electricity from sunlight have
> become
> cheaper? How about not financing wars (guess what pipelines pass
> through
> Afghanistan, which also has as yet unworked reserves of many minerals -
> heaven help them!) and financing trains instead?
> And do you cycle and not drive?
> Marika
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