James Cannon Boyce of Salon [1] points out that all of us who fail to fight for clean energy are responsible for the recent Gulf oil spill.
We each use too much oil in our lives and we are each willing to spend more and more on oil, meaning that we drive the profits and the plans of the large oil companies. It is our consumption, our willingness to pay that drives oil companies to explore the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, spend hundreds of millions of dollars on rigs, because they know we will buy their product.
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