All those dead.

Editor,

The U.S. military serves the interest of the oil companies, its mission being to "secure" Mideast sources of oil. So we are at war with the Muslim world. They attack our embassies or pull off a 9/11, we invade them, they blow themselves up trying to get us to leave. All those dead children, all those dead Americans, all those dead civilians, all those dead fighters on the other side. And all that wasted money. Trillions poured down a rat hole so we can keep on burning oil, destroying the atmosphere of our planet in the process. And all we have to do to correct this situation is implement technologies that exist today, right now, no pie-in-the-sky technological fix that no one has conceived of yet.

Did you know that American auto manufacturers sell cars in Europe that get 80 miles a gallon? And that all of the efficiencies they have engineered into the internal combustion engine are used to haul bigger and bigger SUV's with more acceleration in the U.S.A.?

Read "Green Gone Wrong" by Heather Rogers for more.

My point is: the financial power of big oil has bought policies that serve big oil's interest at the expense of the security and prosperity of the United States as a whole.

Re: "Oil Sheen Seen Near Damaged Platform in Gulf of Mexico" (9/3/2010)