The Gulf Spill, Who Really Pays For It?

[Quillback]

We're like drug addicts complaining about geting ripped off by their dealers. As long as we are dependent (addicted) to oil we are going to be subjected to oil spills, price gouging, market manipulation, ethanol, pollution, and dealing with foreign governments that sell us oil. We can fine the heck out of BP, throw all their execs in jail, but other oil companies will step in and fill the vacumn. New issues caused by oil consumption will occur in the future, guaranteed, no doubt about it, as long as we and the rest of the world continue to burn oil at the rate we are burning it now.

Not that I'm "Holier than Thou", I burn gas with the best of them.

[ness]

Ness, that blurb came from Forbes Magazine originally. I kinda assumed they wouldn't say something so flat out wrong. Apparently I was wrong.

Well, I figured you didn't just make that up. I suspect they were describing something different.

No doubt there are tax laws that benefit the oil companies though. They were supposedly put into place to encourage them to make capital investments with the intent of getting us to use less oil from the bad guys. But we all know how that stuff works.