The Worst Week Ever, Thanks To The Fossil-Fuel Industry

Great commentary! Except the real winner of the dubious title of "The Worst Week Ever, Thanks To The Fossil-Fuel Industry" might be NEXT WEEK, when the muck washes ashore, coats birds, floods oyster-beds, blackens white sand beaches, and destroys jobs!

Thanks BP! No disaster plan - one of the biggest screw-ups in the annals of corporate history!

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Here's the complete article from Grist: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-04-30-the-worst-week-ever-brought-to-you-by-the-fossil-fuel-industry/

David http://wyld-about-money.blogspot.com/



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May 1 Overview of the Oil Spill's Economic Impact: Louisiana's Commercial Fishing and Seafood Distribution Industries

This is a very good overview of the economic impact of the oil spill on Louisiana's commercial and recreational fishing industries. Unfortunately, it's gonna be catastrophic on our coast and it's people. Pray for all.

Read:
Oil Spill’s ‘Fisheries Failure’ May Signal End of Coastal Towns - Bloomberg.com

and for a video overview to get "up to speed," watch the two clips below with national perspectives on commercial fishing, seafood distribution, and restaurants in particular:

It goes without saying, you'd better have that oyster po-boy while you can! And again, do remember all the people here in Louisiana who will be impacted by this, and thanks for all the brave men and women in the Gulf and on the shore to try and stop it.

David

The Oil Spill: Another Louisiana Tragedy

Not that we in Louisiana have a complex (what next, grasshoppers? locusts? And to make matters even worse, it's been blowing off the coast here like the "Ten Commandments" pic above for the past two days - blowing the glop closer to us!).

This is a very good essay on the history of our state and the many, many challenges we've had. This will be a big one - and sadly, tens of thousands of our citizens - who depend on the land and the water that is about to be fouled for a living - along with those who work for those "evil" Big Oil companies that have provided stable employment and good incomes for many, many of our families - will lose their livelihoods our of this disaster.

All I can say is pray for our state, our people, and yes, our wildlife - and send us some chemical and mechanical engineers who know how to shut-off that f%$#ing well-head five thousand feet below the surface.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

and watch the May 1st update on what's happening offshore:



David

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