Drill, Baby, DRILL!!!!!

The United States' unquenchable thirst for oil and all its related petro-chemical products have, to say the least, led to the worst environmental disaster EVER!
If you are unaware, I strongly suggest you pull your head out of your arse and go search "Deep Horizon Oil Spill", and check out the gi-fuckin-normous oil spill that is engulfing the Gulf of Mexico, and is now larger than many registered countries in the UN!

How did it happen? Other and more connected people are doing the research now, and half of them are burying what they find because it doesn't look good for them, but I'll give you what I have gleaned:
In short:
One day BP, global oil super-corporation, owned an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. This oil rig was a special oil rig, because it could be in many ways claimed as residing inside US territory. Such a claim would give an embattled US President an orgasm: embattled for his racial background, super-strong and unyielding psychopathic Republican opposition, and an inherent spinelessness that all politicians possess, have all made him eager to jump at any chance to look good to the dumbasses of American society whom, by the grace of Democracy ("the worst system except for all the others") he must woo on a daily basis.

A year ago, President Obama advocated drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Because two world wars and gross over-consumption (with total disregard for the future) on the part of the American public has led to a critical shortage in the USA, the President and all leading members of society have advocated drilling inside US territory. Any problems with that? Well, only the fact that said over-consumption has also led to all available wells being tapped out. This means that to find and procure new oil sources, the drillers must drill deeper and deeper than ever before. Luckily, selective advancements in techonolgy ("selective" meaning selection of fossil-fuel technologies over alternative technologies 100% of the time) have enabled oil companies to drill almost to the core of the Earth itself!

BP, through some backdoor dealing (which is OK, because everybody does it anyway) was given a reprieve from having to follow those pesky bloody safety protocols. After all, when the public and polity demands that you drill, baby, DRILL!, how can a company really be expected to waste even more time by following strict and easy-to-read regulations? I mean, after all, what's the worst that could possibly happen?

Well, the WORST that could possibly happen is the decimation of millions of sea-life, pollution on an untold scale, and a clean-up operation that will never likely be completed for sake of time and cost. Also add to that the location of it - if you are going to shit all over a part of the United States, why not shit all over New Orleans again? No recent US Federal Government has ever really given a damn about that city anyway. And why should it? There are only HUMAN BEINGS living there.

So its a big mess, and so its an unparalleled catastrophe. So what? It looks like humanity will just have to take another hit for sake of the oil companies. They've had us by the balls for many decades now, and they deserve to be in that position, too. Do you know why? Because we, as a public and a population of this Earth, and more importantly, as a CONSUMER BASE, have handed our balls, hairs and all, to the oil companies, and figuratively asked them to squeeze as hard as they like.

It would seem that Barack Obama is no different to any of us. His predecessor, George W. "the cat sat on teh mat" Bush was not only a stooge for Haliburton and other oil interests, but more likely than not received monetary or candy kickbacks in lieu of the usual sexual favours that oil (and other industries) lobbyists hand out to keep their cronies onside.

Back to Barack: I am the furst to claim that he has been a victim of circumstance, that circumstance being a horridly psychotic Republican minority and a tragically and pathetically impotent Democratic majority in his congress. But I am also the first to claim that Obama has done nothing to STOP BEING the VICTIM, and take control. After all, despite being evil and nasty, his predecessors got done what they wanted to do, regardless of congressional circle-jerk masturbation sessions.

The oil spill crisis is a great example:
OK, so it is evident now that the aptly named Deep Horizon rig may well have produced enough oil to run the country (USA) for about a month or so. But given further selective technological development, the demand would increase ten-fold before the month was up.

Making things easy, I can present Obama with two clear, opposing options to deal with this crisis. The first is the option he already chose: to clean it up, to take personal responsibility, and to continue allowing oil-using cars and technology to be created. This is wrong in SO many ways, not the least of which is that it is ultimately BP's fault, having not exercised the basic human diligence and decency of being safe! The buck stops there!

The better option (are you ready for it??) is this:
Seize the opportunity to condemn oil drilling and rigging and production and, for the hell of it, all petro-related industries. This kind of thing is enough to piss people off, I guarantee. And it could not have been in a more opportune location - oil is washing up on the shores of Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Texas! These are ALL "red states", and are without exemption among the many states in the USA that haven't a single damn clue about anything that happens outside their borders! Obama, you could win these states on this!
You could take the momentum from this, the single worst disaster ever, and use it like FDR used Pearl Harbour, and wage a war on the oil industry.
You are in charge of the biggest credit card in the world, and could use it to FINALLY pump up new industries, revamp the electric car, and resurrect the rust-belt. In turn, jobs would be created, the environment would be cleaned, and YES, you can get monetary rewards and eternal hero-status!

So, I think the choice is clear. Remain a bitch, and go down into oblivion as "that half-black guy what was president", or alter the course of human history.
You already set new precedents throughout your entire life so far, WHY STOP NOW???? Especially when it aligns with the good of mankind at the same time!

But I do not expect any revelations out of a US President these days, and not for a while, either.

I don't think anyone does.

From The Tominator.