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We’re the guilty ones

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It’s been 3 months or so now, and still the oil spill is making the news nearly every day. And it still is a part of conversation on a regular basis as well. Typically what I hear is how tragic it is, how horrible it is BP didn’t do more to prevent this situation, how BP knows they can’t stop the leak but they have to keep pretending to try to keep the public happy, how BP did this, and BP did that, and occasionally how the government failed to do the right thing before or is failing now, how clean up isn’t going well, etc.

While all these things may be true, what we seem to be forgetting too often is that it isn’t BP who caused this mess, it isn’t the government who failed to regulate well enough, it isn’t someone else’s fault- it’s my fault and it’s your fault and it’s the fault of every person who relies on oil to go through a normal day. If we didn’t consume it, they wouldn’t be drilling for it. It the demand wasn’t so great, BP would not be the thriving business it continues to be even in the wake of this disaster. At the end of the day, they may be the ones responsible for building the drill that is now polluting the water and land, but I am the one responsible for them existing.

Until I step up and take the blame for my part in this catastrophe, until I am willing to change my behavior to reduce- or better yet, eliminate- my dependence on oil we are never going to see new energy sources take over. It has to start with me, it has to start with you. Because they aren’t going to see to it, they are going to do what’s good for business. And we, the consumers, determine that.



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