Bush's EPA Hiding Results Of New Orleans Toxicity Testing
Looks like the oil industry's hold over the Bush Administration is as tight as ever, even in the wake of one of the most horrifying disasters in American history.
The above article tells of various groups' discoveries that petrochemical waste is not being tested for by the EPA, which of course falls under the Bush Administration's jurisdiction of government. And why might this be?
Almost every decision this administration has made has been to the benefit of the oil industry or its subsidiaries, despite the health risks to the people of the world. It just shows how Bush is deeply in the pockets of the oil industry and that industry is running this country now.
Folks, it's long past time to stop giving these folks our money! Stop driving as much as possible. Find vehicles that save gas or don't use it at all. Take public transportation. Lobby your congressmen to improve mileage standards for automobiles across the board so states don't have to do it. There's all sorts of stuff that can be done. The fact remains that oil is 1) bad for people, 2) bad for the climate of our world, and 3) is simply creating a reliance that can't last forever. The sooner we're ready to move away from oil, the better.
2 comments:
This is nothing short of nuts (the results issue, not the post).
The boycott I like has been called the Sunday Gas-out. Nobody buys gas that day.
I am a little torn on it, because it does whack the franchisees, who are generally small (and in our neck of the woods, frequently immigrant) businessmen who are not making the rapacious profits.
But one day a week won't kill those guys. And I can still buy milk and M&Ms to salve my conscience, I suppose.
When I was working at a gas station in Alma (Dale, you remember Crystal Flash!) we made almost NO money on gasoline - most of the money was made on the stuff IN the store.
So feel free to patronize them and buy stuff IN the store... just don't buy gas. Now, if you take the bus daily to work like I do, it's not an issue. But it's always nice to stick it to the man.
Oh, and visit the Sierra Club's Exxpose Exxon site as well.
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