another example how corporate media has become an utter failure.

I'm not in politics, I'm in ratings. We're winning.

Roger Ailes, Fox News

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"We can't stop this. There's no way to prevent this from hitting our shorelines. The best I think we can do is minimize the impact, learn from our mistakes. We have to have fuel, we have to have gasoline. The price we're paying now is far too expensive. Safety measures that could have prevented this were not in place. It's time for our government to step up to the plate and take responsibility for what's happening on the shores of our country."

I couldn't agree more with this guy's statement. "Drill, Baby, Drill" isn't the right attitude, because then stuff like this happens. But stopping all offshore drilling isn't a good solution, either, since we're still highly dependent on liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

We need to get serious on our energy policy. Drilling had to go on, but we also need more funding/subsidizing of alternative energy sources and more stringent safety measures and auditing. If that means an extra dollar or two per gallon, so be it. In my book, we either do it right, or we don't do it at all.