{"id":1405,"date":"2010-05-14T00:20:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2010-05-14T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:30:48","slug":"1405","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/1405\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 5, Day 14: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles in the NYT.  One is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/13\/science\/earth\/13climate.html?fta=y\">a generic piece<\/a> on the Kerry\/Lieberman Climate\/Energy Bill (sigh).  The other notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/14\/us\/14oil.html?hp\">BP doesn&#8217;t want to know how much oil they&#8217;re releasing<\/a>.  Of course there are people who are making estimates that are closer to reality than the figures the Oil Flacks are giving out, but they&#8217;re all Dirty F**king Hippies, so the hell with them.<\/p>\n<p>The oil corporations are demonstrating that given a loose regulatory environment, they will behave like rabid skunks on speed.  I fear for us all; I cannot really begin to imagine what it will take to rein them in at this point.  Jail time in a maximum security prison for all their chief executives would help.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We discover with depressing regularity that corporations are adept at minimizing, denying or shirking their responsibilities.  B.P.&#8217;s unwillingness to engage scientific specialists in measuring the size of its oily underwater volcano is an indication that their PR department is making policy decisions \u2014 <em>always<\/em> a bad strategy.  <em>Drill, baby, drill; spill, baby, spill; spin, baby, spin!<\/em>  Meanwhile, the Senate is considering a climate and energy bill that does nothing to stop offshore drilling in the Arctic, where Shell Oil is getting ready to begin &#8220;exploratory drilling&#8221; within two months.  Needless to say, weather and oceanic conditions in the Arctic are considerably harsher than in the Gulf of Mexico.  Can anyone say, &#8220;disaster waiting to happen&#8221;?  <em>How many Deepwater Horizons is it going to take before we come to our collective senses?<\/em>  The catastrophe in the Gulf is a wake-up call: we <strong>must<\/strong> eliminate fossil fuels from our energy diet.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles in the NYT. One is a generic piece on the Kerry\/Lieberman Climate\/Energy Bill (sigh). The other notes that BP doesn&#8217;t want to know how much oil they&#8217;re releasing. Of course there are people who are making estimates that are closer to reality than the figures the Oil Flacks are giving out, but they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[471,465,444,345,97,378,470],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arctic","tag-british-petroleum","tag-deepwater-horizon","tag-joe-lieberman","tag-john-kerry","tag-offshore-drilling","tag-shell-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}