You Have The Right To Remain Silent.

Can anyone tell me what the greatest danger from fossil fuels is? Global warming? No. Pollution? No. Well then, just exactly what is the greatest danger from fossil fuels? The big problem seems to be the nearly total disregard for safety on the part of the energy companies. You could even add nuclear energy to that list. The latest is a report on Massey Energy, the company that operated the coal mine where 29 miners died. They cooked the books. By that I mean they kept two separate sets of books on mine safety just like at the Gulf Oil spill where reports go to Washington claiming good honest safety records while the opposite is the case. Now, I don't mean to suggest that the corporate leaders of these energy companies would falsify reports, I'm merely saying that they would falsify reports. And the proof is in the reports. This isn't just an American phenomenon, look at what happened in Japan at the nuclear energy site where reporting on the accident to the Japanese government kept giving misleading reports on what was happening. Nor is it in energy companies alone. But with energy companies, the opportunity for major disasters is so much greater. Why is it that companies that seem to be making record profits every time you turn around, keep cheating? Maybe that's one of the ways they make the big profits. Maybe that's how we can keep track of them. As soon as a company sets a record for profits, maybe we should go arrest them. Because they're most likely breaking a law or at least endangering somebody.