From Robert Kennedy Jr, we learned that BP has huge economic dis-incentives to clean up the oil. Let's say that better — it has huge economic incentives to keep the seas dirty. That story is here.
Now, thanks to Keith Olbermann on Countdown, we learn that dehydrated peat moss is an excellent way to soak up oil:
[D]ehydrated peat moss [is] not only capable of soaking up crude, which does not leak out afterwards, but microbes inside the moss break down the oil as well.But BP won't use this solution, which has been around for years:
The owner of the peat moss company [told The Globe and Mail newspaper that] BP has informed him it cannot use peat moss because the oil giant would not then be able to retrieve the oil afterwards. And you may translate that as: the oil giant would not be able to sell the oil afterwards.Money, folks. The beast wants only money.
The full Keith is below. The peat moss comment starts about one minute in. Then he discusses the subsidies that BP is still getting from the U.S. government.
Team Change — can we have some now please?
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