Make the Oil Companies PAY for environmental damage

[Guest guest]

This year again the administration is trying to deliver a huge

payoff to their corrupt oil company campaign contributors,

absolving them of any future liability for polluting our water

supplies with MTBE, an insidious smelly solvent infiltrating water

systems all over the country. So let me get this straight, the

oil industry, who is rolling in so much windfall profits cash

their biggest problem is they don't know what to do with it, THAT

oil industry can't afford to clean up after their environmental

disasters. This measure barely passed the house but not in the

Senate and will now be settled in conference.

 

With such shaky support, those pushing for this mammoth act of

corporate welfare are offering to create some kind of fund that

oil companies will " contribute " to in some kind of LIMITED way,

and the rest of us just get to pick up the rest of their tab,

whatever that might be. And if that wasn't outrageous enough, we

now discover that hidden in the energy bill like some stealth

elephant is repeal of the original Public Utilities Holding

Company Act, the last thing standing between our public utilities

and worst kind of speculators, like nobody's supposed to notice or

Enron never happened. We still have time to raise a howl about

all this, so please use the action page below to do so

 

http://www.usalone.com/energy.htm

 

What they did to grease this hit job on the PUHCA was to propose

that oversight responsibility be shifted to the director of FERC,

who just HAPPENS to be a hardcore administration crony. Yes, you

heard right, yet another wolf put in charge of administrating the

dismantling of the Hen Protection Act, this one a key member of

Cheney's SECRET TASK FORCE who wrote the energy bill itself. It

It gives incentives to mostly the wrong people, does nothing to

promote real conservation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil,

will decimate the sea life off our coasts with excruciating sonic

booms in preparation for destroying even more of our coastal

environment, and all instead of making renewables the urgent

policy priority they should be.

 

http://www.usalone.com/energy.htm

 

Please take action NOW! Forward this email to everyone you know,

and encourage its posting on blogs and websites.

 

originally posted by The Pen to