Should private industry be left alone to extract energy from our land and seas in the cheapest, dirtiest, riskiest, most life-threatening ways in order to save a few bucks here and there to maximize profits for investors?
The Philadelphia Inquirer just published an amazing series on the deliberate dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency by the Bush Administration.
In good faith, they probably thought they would prove the economic superiority of deregulation by giving free rein to energy producers. Instead, we have a string of disasters and environmental catastrophes in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and the whole Gulf Coast.
Click here for very compelling reading - especially since we've had a string of accidents and contaminated water sources in Pennsylvania:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/special/36110664.html
Good questions, although the factual predicate you state is flawed. Here's another good question: Is someone who is a war profiteer in any position to ask such pontificating questions?
ReplyDeleteI have testified in Congress about war profiteers who put lives of soldiers and contractors in danger because they put profits before safety. For that, I can assure you, I have paid a steep personal price, and I am proud to say that my work in exposing profiteering has been covered by Vanity Fair, City Paper of Philadelphia, NBC, CBS, Bloomberg News, etc.
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