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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quercus" data-source="post: 1816330" data-attributes="member: 64248">"Since when did Europe become such vehement defenders of capitalism and big money ? LOL !"Since we invented it in the 18th Century!I don't think big business can be trusted to do much more than to look after it's own interests and profit margins. Bp's massive profits are there because we happily pay for their oil... they don't force us, we areall addicted to oil.. and plastics and petro-chemicals. They supply the demand. I'm not sue if the drug pusher (sic), addict analogy fits here.. past the point that the way Markets work are on a simple supply and demand curve. My argument is as long as there is demand, accidents like this will happen along the supply chain. But it's all linked and no one part of that chain can be held solely to be at fault.We're kidding ourselves if we thimnk that the sourcing of oil is going to be cheap, clean and non-polluting</blockquote>