Greenwash Watch: BP stands for Beyond the Pale
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 12.28.07
What does BP stand for these days? Beyond Propaganda? ByeBye Planet? Bad Pollution? We just aren't certain anymore, now that it is spending $3 billion to buy into the stupid fuel, oil from the Alberta Tar Sands, global warming's new Ground Zero. Each barrel of oil out of the tar sands generates about a two thirds of a tonne of CO2, so BP's 200,000 barrels a day will generate about 127,000 tonnes of CO2 per day.
They will have to sell a lot of wind turbines and solar panels to compensate for that! ::Joe Romm
The Tyee recently wrote a good article on the silliness that is the Tar Sands:
You can't practice abstinence while running a brothel. Yet politicians of almost all stripes talk simultaneously about developing the Alberta oil sands while getting serous about reducing carbon emissions. Sound like a crock? It is. ::The Tyee
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