We all know about the spill now. And we all know about the anger. We have seen a few of the tears and a lot of pointed fingers. We have heard the screams against the government, against BP, against Halliburton, against Deep Water, against all those poor pensioners in England, and against all the others involved in this catastrophe.
How about you? And me, too. What is our responsibility for this incredible mess?
My nieghborhood is well stocked in SUVs just like the ones in this picture . We have a lot of big cars that can’t get very good gasoline milage. Every house but one has two cars. Or three. Some have four, one has five (teen-agers).
We have a lot of grass in this neighborhood. Legal grass. The kind you grow in your front yard. And it is always clipped two inches high. All weekend long the ‘hood sounds like an Air Force flight line during a major launch exercise. Everybody has push mowers that run on gasoline, everybody has a riding mower. There are clippers, blowers, weed eaters, even chain saws, and mulchers. Some run on electricity - not that big a deal as far as the spill goes. Some people, like me, hire a guy to drag a mower or two in on his truck which gets 5 mpg, then cut grass, eat weeds and blow it all away. I pay him money and I think he sends some down to the Gulf to help pay for the spill. I’ll ask him next time I see him.
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