The misunderstood, noble and filthy BP
Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam righteously defends BP.
Your critics temporarily hold the upper hand — the “little people,’’ the media sermonizers, the pusillanimous politicians who were hectoring you for handouts just a few months ago. This, too, shall pass. Like Americans everywhere, they need their overpowered cars, their grandiose, climate-controlled McMansions, and their scalding hot showers every day.
A year from now, they’ll be begging you to drill more, deeper, farther from shore. Windmills? How charming. Good for grinding flour, less useful for powering the most wasteful economy in the history of mankind.
