Praise the Lord and Pass the Oil.

I just heard that there is a fairly good chance that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may never be able to be contained. The oil companies have failed miserably so far. The government really has nobody capable of doing even what BP has done. In fact any technology that exists to solve this kind of problem has been and is in the hands of the oil companies. The problem is that oil companies have never concentrated on fixing any problem like this, but rather of getting to the oil. Now, that doesn't mean the government is blameless. Certainly not. The thing is, the government, which is supposed to oversee and regulate the oil companies in their drive to get at oil, has instead, been in bed with the oil companies for decades. That's right Republicans and Democrats alike have overlooked what the oil companies do, AT OUR PERIL. So, what's the big deal? Not much if they stop the leak soon. Just a few million or so people along the Gulf Coast including from Florida to Texas. But if they can't stop the leak, then in time, and not too much time, it'll get into the Gulf Current that carries it up the Atlantic coast and on to Europe and western Africa, then the entire Atlantic. Now we're talking hundreds of millions of people, maybe as many as a billion. But there's always a silver lining or two. Nobody will be shouting Drill Baby Drill any more. And some Televangelists will shout out that it is God's punishment for the people of Kansas or Switzerland. Why would they say such a thing? Money. Publicity. The fact that it would make no sense would be lost on them.