The typical right-wing response to President Obama’s declaration yesterday that it was “time to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil companies and use the money for clean energy R&D” was, predictably, a doom and gloom outcry about increased consumer prices at the gas pump. Well of course gas prices will [...] [...]
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Why the uber-capitalists’ cry for government intervention reeks of hypocrisy Given the stupidity and ludicrous public response to the catastrophic environmental disaster ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico, and BP’s pathetic corporate response to it, which is quite obviously woefully inadequate in spite of their filed assurances ahead of the drilling that claimed they were amply [...] [...] Should the US Federal Government take a greater leadership role in the Gulf disaster? James Carvill‘s meltdown last week about the President’s “lackadaisical” choice to “stay out of” private industry concerns, and stay its hand while BP takes the lead in the oil leak cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico was more rationally examined Sunday [...] [...] About a week ago, the conservative media latched onto a phrase made famous in a recent memo, absurdly comparing the Horizon blow-out and the resulting massive oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, and the US Government’s response to this disaster to that one. Rush Limbaugh, Fox Nation, The Drudge Report, and The Washington Times all [...] [...] |
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