July 8th, 2010

Inspired by Keith’s report and commentary below.

It’s day 80 of not stopping the BP oil spill.

Sometimes it looks as if they never will.

BP already turned the spill into a game

For which they came up with a clever name.

In “Offshore Oil Strike,” you too can represent Big Oil

Doing your best, the environment to despoil.

The penalty for a blow-out consists

Of a one million dollar slap on the wrists.

But the bigger shame

Is that Big Oil has long been playing this game,

Making every increasing massive profit

While polluting the world. (Will they every stop it?)

Taking big risks and bigger tax breaks,

Never paying for their mistakes.

(Republicans have worked hard, when push came to shove,

To keep the liability limit comparable to the one described above.)

The GOP has also played politics,

Trying blame for the spill on Obama to affix.

That and their defense of BP show where their priorities are

(A little campaign contribution money goes pretty far).

But unfortunately this is real, not pretend.

And after 80 days, it’s got to end.

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Here’s Keith’s 7/06/10 report about continued failure to stop the leak, the billions in subsidies given to BP and other Big Oil companies, and BP’s “Offshore Oil Strike” game.

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