Why is it, after the worst environmental disaster in US history, that Congress can’t pass an energy or climate bill?\u00a0 Why can’t the Senate even pass an oil spill response bill?\u00a0 Because of the money in politics, and the massive money in oil and coal and gas.\u00a0 Many (most?) politicians are no longer motivated by doing what’s right or good for the country, they are motivated by money.\u00a0 So now there is a new site where you can look up your congress persons and see who is “motivating” them.\u00a0\u00a0 Check out this new site, Dirty Energy Money, to see some dirty energy interests behind Congress.<\/p>\n
For instance, my Congresswoman, the climate change denier Michele Bachmann (R-MN), has taken almost $84,000 in dirty oil and coal money. \u00a0 That’s not all that much for a Senator, but it’s quite a lot for a Congresswoman from one little district in Minnesota.\u00a0 Even the progressive Al Franken has taken about $21,000 in oil and coal money.\u00a0 That does influence them, and they should not be taking any of that money.\u00a0 The reason is that it colors their votes, it prevents clean climate change legislation from even being voted on, and it is harming everyone in the country.\u00a0 Senator Amy Klobuchar has taken $45,000 in dirty energy money, and most of it from coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel of all.\u00a0 I have to say that shocks me a little bit.\u00a0 It’s possible to win elections without taking money from fossil fuels, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
It’s not just people running for office that are tainted by their loyalties to Big Oil. This morning on a TV talk show, Carol Browner, the President’s environmental director, claimed that scientists are looking at the Gulf water and the “tests show nothing of concern”. That is an outrageous statement and has to be a deliberately\u00a0 misleading claim by our government of what is still in the water.\u00a0 People who live down there report oil being seen every day. <\/p>\n
This is no minor political game, because that oil is very dangerous to human health. What does crude oil contain? Cancer-causing agents, for one thing. The next article here will contain more information on the health effects of this oil spill, but meanwhile\u00a0here is a photo taken by a Gulf resident.\u00a0 This photo was taken on August 6th, and you can see many more here.<\/p>\n
Eat the seafood at your own risk . . . . Photo taken August 6, 2010<\/p>\n
Read Carol Browner’s misleading claims on Meet the Press here and see the entire broadcast there too.\u00a0 She can’t possibly believe her own words when she says that most of the oil is gone — just disappeared.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
MS. BROWNER: I think it’s also important to note that our scientists have done an initial assessment and more than three-quarters of the oil is gone, the vast majority of the oil is gone.<\/p>\n
That defies all common sense. Do they really expect us to believe that?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Why is it, after the worst environmental disaster in US history, that Congress can’t pass an energy or climate bill?\u00a0 Why can’t the Senate even pass an oil spill response bill?\u00a0 Because of the money in politics, and the massive … Continue reading