Make oil companies pay for their environmental damage!

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The People Email Network Energy Bill ACTION Alert

This year again the administration is trying to deliver a huge payoff to their corrupt oil company campaign contributors, absolving them of any future liability for polluting our water supplies with MTBE, an insidious smelly solvent infiltrating water systems all over the country. Let me get this straight, the oil industry, who is rolling in so much windfall profits cash their biggest problem is they don't know what to do with it, THAT oil industry can't afford to clean up after their environmental disasters. This measure barely passed the house but not in the Senate and will now be settled in conference.

With such shaky support, those pushing for this mammoth act of corporate welfare are offering to create some kind of fund that oil companies will "contribute" to in some kind of LIMITED way, and the rest of us just get to pick up the rest of their tab, whatever that might be. And if that wasn't outrageous enough, we now discover that hidden in the energy bill like some stealth elephant is repeal of the original Public Utilities Holding Company Act, the last thing standing between our public utilities and worst kind of speculators, like nobody's supposed to notice or Enron never happened. We still have time to raise a howl about all this, so please use the action page below to do so

http://www.usalone.com/energy.htm

What they did to grease this hit job on the PUHCA was to propose that oversight responsibility be shifted to the director of FERC, who just HAPPENS to be a hardcore administration crony. Yes, you heard right, yet another wolf put in charge of administrating the dismantling of the Hen Protection Act, this one a key member of Cheney's SECRET TASK FORCE who wrote the energy bill itself. It gives incentives to mostly the wrong people, does nothing to promote real conservation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, will decimate the sea life off our coasts with excruciating sonic booms in preparation for destroying even more of our coastal environment, and all instead of making renewables the urgent policy priority they should be.

http://www.usalone.com/energy.htm

Please take action NOW! Forward this email to everyone you know, and encourage its posting on blogs and websites.

[Djinn]

1. not a snowball's chance in hell

even if they ever where forced to pay for their damage the cost would simply be passed on to consumer.

personally I think petrol should be more expensive but we're sitting at about $5 a gallon here and most people would riot if it was much higher. then's there all the other industries that use oil, price hikes across the board.

no government is likely to piss of the oil co's, certainly not this one

[firefox]

2. Exxon never paid a dime for Valdeze

You would be more trouble for not paying a parking ticket than Exxon is for not paying the billion it owes on the judgement for the oil spill in Alaska.

[Canuckistanian]

3. My God, haven't they paid that yet?

I remember hearing about that years ago.

[Coastie for Truth]

4. The latest thing - they are going to go to double hull tankers in 2006

I was doing center of gravity/center of buoyancy modeling for double hulled tankers back in the 1960's in the Coast Guard -- back when I was collecting Charpy impact data on the materials of construction of LNG tankers back in the 1960's - sheeesh.

That most definitely included the "dog work" of metacenter righting arm (that was before the PC and before access to main frames was easy - No LANS or Client/Server -- we used slide rules and pencil and paper) for double hulled super tankers. --- In the 1960's.

I was also one of the gofers and staffies and lackies on the original safety evaluation of bulk marine shipment of LNG. My job was to collect the published data on the "ultimate" properties of the materials used to fabricate that great big sphere.

Yup - those spheres--->

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My big claim to fame (the 1960's, red bound edition)-->

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[thegreatwildebeest]

5. Or...

The huge spills that Texaco (now Chevron Texaco) caused in Ecuador some 40 years ago, and the rampant abuse and use of oil/natural gas in South America, all of which have either pushed out indigenous tribes or has wrecked what little land they were thrown a bone as in supposed "compensation".

I don't know what other way to face down these foes other than to try and limit your own oil consumption, as much as possible. And to do so in simple, and not technocratic ways (its better to ride a bike than it is to buy a hybrid).