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Can We Take a Lesson from the Gigantic Oil-Gusher Crisis? Posted: 26 May 2010 07:38 AM PDT If we were meant to use the fossilized bodies of tiny, ancient creatures to fuel our cars, ships, trucks, factories and so on, wouldn’t nature have made it a heckuva lot easier to get the stuff out of the ground? The ’solutions’ to the oil gusher problem are pretty comical. This week they’re considering cramming the hole with a whole lot of liquid. And if it doesn’t work? The New York Times says: The consequences…are profound: A successful capping of the leaking well could…perhaps limit the damage to wildlife and marine life from reaching catastrophic levels. A failure could mean several months more of leaking oil, devastating economic and environmental impacts across the gulf region, and mounting financial liabilities for the company. I’m not going to point a finger at BP. Why not? Because the problem goes way beyond BP and the other oil/gas companies and their allies. We are a culture that wants lots of stuff and few of us (me included) want to give it up. We want peaches in January, and a car to take us a half-mile to the grocery store. Lottery winners, when they make their first appearance on television, always recite all the stuff they plan to buy. Why not use the money to find a cure to an illness or help people who just need a roof over their heads? What say you, dear reader?

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