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Friday, August 03, 2012

Just One Day

In one day, Big Oil earns $342 million in profit, pays their CEOs $60,000 in salaries, spends more than $160,000 lobbying, and dumps a billion pounds of carbon pollution into our skies. That's all in a single day. And what do we get out of it? Rapid climate change that's threatening to destabilize the entire planet. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture – more than half of all the counties in the United States are now primary disaster areas – stricken by one of the worst droughts in our nation's history. To give relief, the USDA has opened up 3.8 million acres of conservation land for ranchers to use for grazing. It's the latest effort by the Department to prevent a rapid increase in food prices that could kill our fragile economic recovery, hurt working Americans, and push the developing world into starvation and chaos. Meanwhile – Big Oil and Big Coal – which have been dumping unimaginable amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere for centuries – continues to take in enormous profits without contributing one cent to fixing the destruction they're causing around the planet. This is predatory capitalism at its worst, and if left unchecked, our future is uncertain.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"... Big Oil and Big Coal – which have been dumping unimaginable amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere for centuries..."
My history books must match the AGW history for warming periods. No mention of big ANYTHING before the late 1800's.

Anonymous said...

What do we get out of it? We get to drive around in our cars anytime we feel like it for the cheapest prices in the world.

Anonymous said...

1 volcano does more than everything combined!

Anonymous said...

The Daily post of liberal propaganda. Do you really think that with the crushing regulations enforced by the EPA that Big Oil and BIg Coal are dumping "unimaginable" amounts of pollution? It is "Unimaginable" because it doesn't exist in this country. YOU must be talking about China.

Anonymous said...

Liberal crap.

Anonymous said...

And yet they make literally pennies per gallon. The gov't makes more off of oil than do the oil companies. Foolish fools.