They will claim new regulation will lead to higher gas prices, but they have the money to absorb the costs. Besides most of the oil comes from overseas where the regulation wouldn’t hold sway.

Does she realize that her party is being infiltrated by Bolsheviks?

Yeah, while it took many years for Bolsheviks to infiltrate both Democratic and Republican parties, it didn’t take even one day for infiltrating Tea Party.

I wanted to vote for Tea Party. But I won’t considering the way how that party has totally succumbed to young Boilsheviks who infiltrated it under the guise of Capitalists.

Plastic is a BIproduct of oil refinery which is the reason it’s the cheapest material on the planet. Saying plastic is a waste of fuel is like saying cornstalk husks are a waste of food.

Quick question, will this “science” involve either nuking something or prolong an erection? Because if it can’t do either, it won’t get funding.

tl;dr, humanity is fucked. Enjoy it while you can.

I saw on the news this asshole fisherman with a plastic boat running on petrol complaining about not be able to fish because of the oil spill.

Instead we have absurd amounts of oil available right away and no one is really innocent. Even douche bag vegans use plastic and food made using petrol driven harvesters.

Petrol driven harvesters and general use of oil in the production of food is also a major problem.

It has become conventional “knowledge” that all that oil the world uses is employed primarily in transportation–folks diatribe endlessly on the price of gas, MPG numbers, hybrids, alternate fuels, deedle deedle dee…

I’m not saying this particular self-flagellation is miniscule or unimportant. I would, however, invite y’all to take a look in your refrigerator(s) before you blame it all on the internal combustion engine. Definitely the #1 culprit in our ongoing destruction of our only home, but not singular.

So, like I said, go open your refrigerator. Now count the number of plastic items in there, mostly packaging. If you’ve ever spent the two hours it takes to retrieve that new Barbie doll from its plastic tomb, you are familiar with how ubiquitous, yes, over-used, plastic packaging is in this world.

Plastic–every single piece of it–is a petroleum product. Now, you might be able to make a case that using oil for transportation is necessary, ignoring for a moment that a century ago over 90% of the vehicles in this country were electric. But how do you make a case for the glut of plastic packaging that encircles the globe?

I’m all for consigning megalithic monsters like BP and Exxon to the trashbin of history, preferably tomorrow morning. But I think a much easier and just as legitimate target is plastic. Most of it manufactured in the world today is completely unnecessary.

People like to say you have to start somewhere. Well, why not here?

By the way, the abiotic (abiogenic) oil conspiracy nuts are coming out of the woodwork over this:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2010/0610.html

You see, the fact that the BP hole is futterwacking so vigorously is a sign that there is a never-ending supply of oil in our Earth, only those pesky greens and libs, yadda, yadda. This might be a good subject for the Exiled, given the majority of these nuts are Russian (the dean of the movement being one Vladimir Kutcherov).

In reality America is not a “true” free market. If it really was a free market, alternative energy IMO would have come to fruition years ago. The government “subsidizes” the oil industry by providing cheap leases and tax breaks. That means that the government controls or manipulates the market. I think it would be a far stretch to say that the oil market is running as a “free” market.

It was BP’s fault but everyone else is also partially responsible. Even if you don’t drive at all you buy groceries that have expended oil to be made and transported.

As long as people demand cheap oil things like this will happen. Imagine if all the other oil companies said “we need to raise prices by 10% so we can use that money to thoroughly inspect all our pipelines”. If that happened people would start to ramble about it being unfair and unnecessary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWuuXpeqNNw