Thank you, Charles, for your highly sensitive take on the disaster in our home. You are so very right, we cannot fix Nature. We cannot cleanup oil once spilled in this magnitude. We naively thought our experience would change the culture of allowing such an oil catastrophe to happen again. But the sadness comes looming back, that we have not demanded the utmost in safeguards. We will continue to pay for cheap oil with Mother Nature herself.

However vile BP is being now, Exxon was far worse. Ultimately, Exxon avoided any substantive financial punishment. BP has admitted some kind of responsibility. To my knowledge, Exxon never admitted anything.

It's also worth noting that questions remain (have maybe even grown) over whether Captain Joseph Hazelwood was made the fall guy by Exxon.

Interview some people from Greenpoint:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint_oil_spill

Anyone know if the $75 million limit of Oil Pollution Act of 1990 would affect the fishermen who will suffer billions?

federal oil tax = less oil used = less money for terror + healthy planet