While oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, people are mobilizing to demand that the Obama administration stops rubbing its hands while BP “takes care” of events and starts getting more active in protecting the Gulf.
San Francisco, CA: May 25 at 4:00 pm
Berkeley, CA: May 27 at 11:30 am
New Orleans, LA: May 30 at 1 pm
Protests regarding SB 1070, the search, seizure and detention without probable cause law new to Arizona, are also continuing:
Seattle, WA: May 28 at 2 pm
Fresno, CA: May 28 at 6 pm
Phoenix, AZ: May 29 at 8 am
If you know of more events, share the word.
This is RIDICULOUS. How reserved and well mannered are we that we let this continue? We drive back and forth to work and listen to the latest news about it. Would you do this if the oil was in your yard? Of course not.
Well it is on your yard. I listened to an engineer on a talk show about a month ago. He said that this scissor thing that they FINALLY used could have been used from the git go. That is before the rig went south, they had a chance to cut it off. But the GREEDY BP I’M sure in their GREED wanted to try everything possible to save it at our expense.
I HOPE that all Americans will BOYCOTT BP until they go out of business.
Connie, how about instead of just boycotting BP, we all work to reduce our use of petroleum products, from gasoline to plastics, so that ALL the oil companies have reduced profits, and economic demand for offshore drilling drops?
BP happens to be the particular dirty oil company on this particular spill. Other companies have had their spills as well, and will in the future. What we need is to move away from crude oil products in general, not just BP specifically.
I would offer the opinion that the radical environmentalists are more to blame than BP. Why was BP forced to drill in water that is 5000+ feet deep? BECAUSE THE NUTBALLS WHO BLOCK DRILLING IN ANWAR (Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge) ARE TO BLAME! Every drop of this oil is on your plate not BP’s. Whine and cry as you will but the truth is plain to see!
Yeh! let’s hear the rest of your confused rationalization!
Your an idiot a bIG one and your comment just proved that, I hope you get to feel the effects of this disaster firsthand so you’ll understand
that this way of life is killing people, animals and the earth slowly.
Jon, have you not paid attention to the huge number of oil spills in Alaska, NOT a mile under the water, over the last year? Your unstated premise, that drilling for oil in Alaska is safe, is clearly false.
It’s our over-use of petroleum that’s led to this disaster. Conservation is the solution we need, not what’s to blame.
Why don’t we just return to the Stone Age while were at it? Or are you living in some AVATAR confused reality?
What power source is a good replacement for ALL the products that oil offers? Would you like to see more people starve by diverting corn production to ethanol? How about Nuclear?
Grow up and face the Hard realities of this day…stop striving for nonsence…
I was just thinking, how does one really boycott BP. You have no idea where their product is. If you boycott the stores you only hurt mom and pops that run them (BP sold all of their stores years ago). There oil and gas is sold to almost all third parties. How do you hurt them when you cant even see them and they are everywhere
The protest that makes sense is for each of us to make an extra effort to restrict our use of petroleum products, whatever company they may happen to come from. It’s just chance that it was BP in particular that had this disaster. Other companies are using risky, unreliable offshore drilling technology as well.
How do you use less? Everything you do and every company that you buy from uses them. Its impossible to see.
I didn’t say eliminate. That’s probably not possible. I said we should restrict our use of petroleum, meaning to use less of it. A few ways to do that:
- Walk or bike short distance trips instead of driving them
- Drink water out of your tap, instead of drinking bottled water that’s been shipped thousands of miles in a plastic bottle that’s probably made from crude oil.
- Plan your shopping trips to consolidate them, and make them part of other trips you need to make in a car.
- Buy local food.
- Simply buy less.
- Don’t use devices like gas-powered leaf blowers and weed whippers.
- Avoid unnecessary pleasure burning of gasoline in ATVs, sea-doos, dirt bikes and the like.
This is just part of a long, long list of little things we can do to use less petroleum. If a large number of people engage in such simple acts of conservation, our nation’s reliance on fossil fuels would go way, way down.