Well, as you know, BP bought all of the search words pertaining to this topic, so I’m not sure who will actually get to read this without a direct link to my blog. But here goes:

You all know about the oil spill. It’s a disgusting situation and rightfully so, everyone is very upset about all of this. (Not upset enough to stop driving their cars, but that’s a topic for another day).

The oil has been spewing out into the Gulf Coast for over 45 days. 20,000 barrels (or 840,000 gallons) per day. Scientists from all over the globe have been presenting incredible solutions to this problem (my favorite is here: http://organicjar.com/2010/2550/?awesm=fbshare.me_ANbKr), and still nothing has been done to stop, or even slow down, the oil spewing into the ocean.

There seems to be a lot of blame on the red tape surrounding the EPA and the Coast Guards, as well as a lot of talk from Obama but no action (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl2451).

I can remember many instances where legislation in the government, as well as decisions made in large corporations have been rushed and passed through. So why is this time different? Aren’t enough people upset? Isn’t this a disaster situation, not something that “will be taken care of at the end of the summer”?

Personally, I see a couple of ulterior motives here. Particularly with how a delay in action can be financially beneficial for BP. Obviously, if we all wait until the end of the summer to fix this, we will be at a great loss of resources. So what would they do next?

My first thought was that another war would be started to obtain more oil. But I’m not sure the American people will go for that this time.

What is more plausible is that when this is all over, BP (or maybe a different company run by the same guys) is going to come out with a new campaign towards clean energy. They are going to pretend to be sorry for their mistake and that all they want is to use wind power, or solar energy, or corn oil. Depending on how their financial situation is, they might ask for money to start the program going. All of the clean energy plants will be bought up and controlled by the same guys that got us into this mess.

We’ve had substantial clean energy options for awhile. Financially, there was never a motive before to capitalize on this market when everyone uses so much oil. Don’t you think this would be a prime opportunity for the oil companies to make themselves look good AND control new resources AND become disgustingly rich again?

Those are just my thoughts. I’m not really sure why else it would take this long to even stop the oil from spewing out. What do you think?

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