Sunday, May 16, 2010

Unbelievable

At least it would be if it weren't so distressingly predictable these days.

In a BBC interview British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward said Friday that the massive petroleum gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, the greatest oil-based environmental catastrophe in recorded history with the exception of global warming itself, should not forestall further deep-water drilling.

I’m not sure whether Hayward was channeling Sarah Palin, that font of good sense, or vice versa.

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You have to go to amateur video shot from a helicopter above the Gulf of Mexico and posted on Youtube to get the best reporting on the extent and implications of the BP oil volcano.

  Juan Cole


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