Spill disaster a wake-up call to the end of oil

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from the Durango Herald:



Spill disaster a wake-up call to the end of oil
by Philip S. Wenz

Article Last Updated; Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:00AM


It is fascinating, in a ghastly way, to track the growth of the Deepwater disaster in the Gulf. It's like watching cancer spread throughout your child's body.

The event that started as an oil-rig fire that incinerated 11 workers soon led to the collapse of that rig and the report of a minor oil leak a mile below the ocean's surface. That "minor leak" quickly morphed into a major gusher that couldn't be stopped - exposing the lie that today's technology has made deep-water drilling safe.

Exposed, too, is our government's complicity in this disaster. The relentless flow of oil into the Gulf has been paralleled by the flow of disclosures about corruption in the Interior Department and the ongoing collusion of the government in BP's public relations and legal-cover campaign to hide the scope and effect of the spill.

But this disaster is just too big to contain. It's now threatening the long-term productivity of one of the world's great fisheries; the solvency of the world's third-largest corporation (BP); Anglo-American economic relations; the global financial recovery; our faith that government can protect us from disaster; and the myth of U.S. energy-independence via domestic fossil-fuel extraction. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://durangoherald.com/sections/News/Columnists/Your_Ecological_House/2010/06/17/Spill_disaster_a_wakeup_call_to_the_end_of_oil/

[Lint Head]

1. This avoidable oil gusher catastrophe could be the Waterloo for oil.

Petroleum is in a lot of products so it will never totally go away but the internal combustion engine is a mechanical polluting monster.
NASCAR fans would have a hard time excepting the quiet hum of an electric engine.