The illusion of preparation
Submitted by James on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 10:44am
Walter Jones joins the happy talk express today by encouraging our state and local governments to get cracking on preparations for oil washing ashore on our beaches.
“We need to know how to prepare for the possibility of oil on our beaches,” said Jones, a Farmville Republican. “There must be a plan to make sure our residents are safe and our tourism and fishing industries can survive.”
Jones has been in Congress forever and has done next to nothing to make our country less dependent on oil. And now he says "we need to know how to prepare for the possibility of oil"? WTF does that mean? If the oil circulates into the Atlantic ocean and heads our way, which seems likely, there is nothing we can do to stop it. Nothing. It will come ashore and we will try to clean it up ... over the course of years, not months. Our best efforts will be half-assed and enormously expensive. Tourism and fishing will suffer.
Too damn little, too damn late, Mr. Jones.
Coastal Federation
taking names for volunteers who want to clean up one of the many toxic impacts: tar balls.
Scroll halfway down the page to see where to sign-up.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Volunteers?
Seems to me that BP ought to pay at least $12/hour to put people to work to clean up tar balls that BP has deposited or will deposit on our beaches.
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