It's a Wonderful World

You are looking at the first oiled bird to be saved from the Gulf after BP's oil spill. What a lucky, lucky bird. He was a smarty-pants and swam right up to a rescue boat, knowing something was not right in his home.

I swear if re-incarnation happens, I must have been a neglected animal in a previous life. Because nothing makes me boil more than stories like this one. How can an oil company be so careless. When it first happened, how could they not respond within seconds of the disaster? Why is it that US regulators exempted BP from an environmental review earlier this year, that clearly could have stopped this catastrophe? Why is BP asking boaters in the region to use their boats to help search for wildlife, yet they are making them sign a waiver that the boaters will not sue BP for damages to their boats? And why is it that lawmakers are taking contributions from disgusting companies like this? The funny thing? President Obama, who said he would not take lobbying money, took in $71k from lobbyists correlated with BP.

And Obama said he wants to do more off-shore drilling. Granted this was BEFORE the oil spill happened. The funny thing about his decision is that he said he chose to do this because we need to be more "Energy Independent." Here's an idea Washington: find OTHER ways to be energy independent than DRILLING FOR MORE OIL. How about give tax brakes to families that have one car or less? How about promoting the use of bikes by making larger cities more bike friendly? How about focusing our attention on SMART CARS. Not taxing the hell out of them because they are foreign and lawmakers get too much pressure from American Car companies to make Smart Cars affordable for Americans. How about focusing your attention on railways and buses. And not the pathetic excuses we have for public transportation today (other than Boston, whose public transportation is amazing!) How about we stop making these massive freeways that promote MORE DRIVING.

When I lived in Europe, we had practically no need for a car. And their washing machines and appliances were 50% smaller and more efficient than ours. We need to get out of this bigger is better mentality.

Most importantly we need to think of the animals. Experts are estimating that the wildlife population will take decades to recuperate. And what a precious thing to devastate.

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