Speaking Truth To (Non-Renewable) Power

The Gulf gets even more f*cked up, Bill Maher Tweets thus:


But like I said earlier, there's a deafening silence coming from the pro-drilling crowd. This is because they don't have it in them to express mea culpas or to do the hard work of thinking through details. Or to man up and own the disastrous consequences of their id-driven policies when things go awry.

The full range of dialog on energy policy has consisted solely of dumb slogans and talking points. There's no real consideration of the boring minutiae like safety, cost and feasibility.

That's why BP was able to dupe the government and lie unchallenged about possible worst-case scenarios when they built their doomed rig. And how an even worse worst-case scenario happened.