pointing the finger

In a piece about the oilspill that could hardly be more un-green, the Independent columnist Bruce Anderson nevertheless makes the point that 'British Petroleum' (as President Obama likes to call it) has 24,000 American employees and 10,000 British employees. In the Sunday Times, Andrew Sullivan goes one further in apportioning blame:

If you want to assign real, structural blame, it belongs in the end to the American people, who simply refuse to wean themselves off carbon and want to continue having the cheapest petrol in the West.


The Onion reports Massive Flow Of Bullshit Continues To Gush From BP Headquarters