Just More 'Happy Motoring'

Where's the Outrage?!

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A dead Portuguese man-of-war floats on rust-colored oil off the Louisiana coast
on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Photo by Eric Gay / AP.

Just more 'Happy Motoring'

Given the other threats currently menacing planet Earth and its so-called civilization, this oil-gash disaster ought to qualify as the ultimate wake-up call to citizen outrage and mass sustained political action...

By Ray Reece** / The Rag Blog / May 5, 2010

The recent explosion of the offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico promises to become, in my view, the gravest man-made environmental catastrophe since the U.S. rained nuclear death on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, with Chernobyl and Exxon Valdez bringing up the rear

Experts are straining to formulate likely scenarios for the subsequent "oil spill," which is actually a gusher on the ocean floor that is spewing an estimated 5,000 barrels of crude per day. The images we're seeing of the oil already on the surface of the water are ugly and infuriating, and they're going to get more so.

They're going to get surreal. They're going to get apocalyptic. They're going to show us devastated beaches and wetlands in wildlife preserves, oil-tainted seabirds, turtles and crabs, destroyed fisheries, and, quite possibly, as a coda not depicted even in Dante's Inferno, the ocean itself on fire, releasing billows of acrid black smoke to the atmosphere.

Given the other threats currently menacing planet Earth and its so-called civilization, this oil-gash disaster ought to qualify as the ultimate wake-up call to citizen outrage and mass sustained political action, indeed to revolution. Likewise, the blown-up oil rig, under lease to British Petroleum, ought to be studied as a perfect paradigm of the agents at work in the looming demolition of life as we know it in the biosphere.

I speak of the agents of "post-industrial" capitalism and globalization in relentless pursuit of economic expansion and further profit for the corporate elite.

No strategy, no technology, regardless of the risk, is off-limits to these operators and their allies in government, so long as said strategies lead to more profit. ...cont'd

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**Ray Reese is an author and has been politically active for many years. He has taken on the powers that be who have stood in the way of progressive energy policies and has dedicated himself to exposing the inner workings of politics and industry in order to change the energy paradigm. He wrote, The Sun Betrayed: A Report on the Corporate Seizure of US Solar Energy Development.



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What a bunch of complacent, I've-gotta-have-my-oil pusses we have become since March 23, 1989. I'm glad to have lived in a time when there was outrage and passion over something like this.

And unless we go back to the pre-industrial age at least some of that ratio would have to go for increased diesel usage for public transit even if nobody ever "motored" again.