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Posted: Jul 15, 2010

A Little Too Ironic

Sima J. Gandhi explains why oil companies get such large government handouts, why they take such little responsibility when they cause disasters, and what we can do to hold them more responsible.


More: Why Do We Give Oil Companies Such Large Subsidies?

today's cartoon

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A funny face to an ugly truth. - sm

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What's wrong with this picture? Would someone please explain how anybody could take a good long look at the Gulf, then reconcile such untenable political positions on day 87 of this hideous disaster?

I find it amazing that - sm

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you bash tea party people for wanting to drill while also complaining about this oil spill....when it is the oil companies and our government who stepped around safety regulations and inspections. Also....drilling offshore, especially in very deep water, is more difficult than drilling up in Alaska.

I am also rather curious how much fuel you people use. Surely you don't walk to work and/or ride a bike.

This oil spill is a tragedy and I think it could have been avoided. This isn't an easy clean up and the Gulf may never be 100% right again. However, how often does something like this happen? Yes, it is horrible and it happened because of pure negligence....but you people act like this happens all the time and we should stop drilling at all. So we will just continue to pump our money into foreign countries who want us dead and basically fund their terrorists plots against us because we have no back up plan for energy.

Every time we turn around and suggest an alternative to oil...people are whining and crying that you can't use wind mills because they are ugly and kill bats. You can't use solar because you destroy an ecosystem when you scrape the desert to install the mirrors. We have to come up with something people.

Also, I find it amazing that our president wants to stop drilling here and yet he gave millions of dollars to Brazil for their offshore drilling. Kind of hypocritical...don'tcha think?

If we cannot find an alternative fuel source, we have to drill here because I'm sick and tired of funding terrorists just so I can drive my vehicle.

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