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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:52 am
How to be an oil spill apologist, step by step:
1) “There will never be another oil spill again. Today’s technology makes it virtually impossible”
2) [After next major oil spill disaster] “ Of course there’s an oil spill. These things happen all the time. Spills are a totally normal part of everyday life. Why there are a half dozen actively leaking pipelines at any given time and constant oil train derailments, this is nothing different. Nothing to see here!”
3) “Don’t worry, everything will be completely cleaned up in a few days like it never happened. Look, here’s a photo-op of an oil executive putting dish soap on an oily duck! Everything will be completely forgotten in a few days, it’ll be like it never happened”
4) [Ten years later]. “Will people stop bringing up the past? Yes the oil spill has killed untold millions of creatures and permanently destroyed the environment and local economy....but that was ten years ago already. The important thing to remember is that there will never be another oil spill again. Today’s technology makes it virtually impossible...” [start over at 1]
CKA Uber 
