What strikes me as most important about this piece isn’t BP’s insanely long history of conscientious neglect. It’s the business about how BP isn’t particularly concerned with the ramifications of cap-and-trade. We can’t do much to save the shrimp–not that any of us have actually tasted wild domestic shrimp lately–but we can … maybe .. do something about cap-and-trade.
BTW, this is off Kos. Which I every now and then take an oath never to visit again. But if you can get past the snarky attitude of Markos and friends when it comes to third parties (and even noble Democratic outliers like Mike Gravel)… there’s much on the site that’s indispensable.
That there are people out there staying up all night doing this kind of research in order post an article gratis makes me more hopeful than does anything else. No, DGW isn’t going to approach Beck’s ratings anytime soon. But he’s reached me, and he’s reached you, and now you’re going to disseminate that link far and wide….