The Obama Administration needs to take a page from its own playbook and not waste the horrible ecological disaster that the Gulf Oil Spill has become. The Administration should quickly pass financial reform and take the rest of summer to push cap and trade legislation through Congress. Like the Great Recession before it, this crisis should not be wasted.
I dare any major energy company this summer to go before Congress and testify that they do not want a cleaner environment. I love the ocean so much and living on a beach was never ending set of happy experiences for me. I loved swimming in the ocean every day and every weekend that I could in Miami Beach. I love the ocean water, the waves, the tides, the sea life, the calm beauty and ferocity of the waves. To see that spoiled is painful. My parents house in Florida is a 5 minute walk from the Gulf of Mexico. And the oil is so ugly, that to see it on the beach would cause anyone physical revulsion.
With all the damage we have done to the ocean, we should look upon this opportunity to pay Mother Nature back for all that we have and make concrete legislative steps to help heal the Earth. We did it before with acid rain in the 1980's, and we can do it again now with cap & trade. Let's all make the right choice for our country, the environment and globally for our collective future.
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