Grr!! I hate BP! ok, what else is on?
while i am upset at the situation in the gulf I also realize that its all pretty much lip service. No one has stopped driving their cars, leaving lights and appliances on, using and wasting plastics, or any of the multitude of things people could do to show oil companies that we wont take it anymore or lower our dependence on that oil. We just watch it on the tv and wave our fists at the screen and consider that involvement and activism.
The govt will form committees, people and companies will be condemned, rules based on hysteria will be implemented, and then it will be business as usual.
We will all move on and because we complained about it to our friends and felt indignant we will feel that we were part of the solution.
Why?
Cause we are lazy, selfish, and phony. Unless the oil is lapping at our doorsteps we dont truly care. Its why there is such a cry for Obama to get angry and do something. “Hey you! Obama! get off your duff and take of stuff for us. The news breaks are interfering with American Idol!”
Bitching is considered activism these days.