What happened to the whole idea that we can just pave the whole planet over and drill for fossil fuels along the way? Why not just turn the whole planet into one giant burning oil slick? Right wingers claim that the Bible gives them the right to destroy and stampede across the earth like a bunch of locusts.
Right wingers have even created a conspiracy about the environmentalists who might make money off of this whole "green" bit. How much money exactly has been made off of oil? Didn't ExxonMobile make the most profit of any company ever? Doesn't that give them too much power to control the energy policy of this country?
Now that the Gulf of Mexico is burning are these "drill baby drill" types going to come to their senses?
Imagine if we the people got the profits of the oil companies and we the people decided to change how we transport ourselves. How can we go forward without capping these corporation's powers? How many wars exactly have been fought over oil? I would take a gamble and say that the Vietnam War and the wars in the Middle East have been fought over oil.
