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They say it begins with the small things. Maybe by not-so-deftly swiping a Snickers candy bar from the corner grocery. Perhaps it was sneaking a Camel cigarette from dad's crumpled pack. Or by silently sliding that shiny nickel that was sitting on mom's bureau into your grubby jeans pocket.
However it all began, middle school dad Kaveh Kamooneh of Chamblee, GA is well on his way smack into a bunk at the illustrious Folsom Prison as he has no doubt begun a life of crime with a five cent theft of school electricity to recharge his electric car.
According to Channel 11 News in Atlanta, Kamooneh's flimsy excuse of plugging in while waiting for his 11-year-old son to finish playing tennis at Chamblee Middle School didn't wash with wary school officials, who immediately called the cops. Within 20 minutes, Chamblee's finest arrived to bravely confront the shameless criminal.
"He said that he was going to charge me with theft by taking because I was taking power, electricity from the school," Kamooneh said.
It is reported that Kamooneh's Nissan Leaf stood by impassionately while its owner was taken down, still thoughtlessly chugging stolen power until somebody thought to unhook the car from the exterior outlet at the school.
"I'm not sure how much electricity he stole," said Chamblee police Sergeant Ernesto Ford, but quickly added that the point was moot. "He broke the law. He stole something that wasn't his."
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Shell is trying to drill the world's deepest offshore oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, according to Grist. What's the worst that could happen?
"The Shell facility will be further offshore and about twice as deep as BP’s disastrous well that blew three years ago. It took months to quell that undersea gusher, in part because of the inherent difficulties and risks associated with drilling for oil so deep under the sea."
Just think back a few months--I think you'll remember what the worst that could happen is.
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Here's a different kind of gAsshat... fracking companies.
It's the hidden costs that really get ya and natural gas comes with some pretty nasty hidden costs. Natural gas extraction by 'fracking' includes toxic contamination of land and water... and by toxic we mean tap water that bursts into flames!
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Behind every great gasshat is.. another gasshat, and Congress is full of them. The Senate just voted to support an amendment that recommends President Obama build Keystone XL. If you're upset by that there are a number of groups you might want to pitch in with, like this page on Friends of the Earth.
The vote isn't binding, but it's certainly embarrassing for Congress. According to Oil Change International, Senators for the amendment received 3.5 times more campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests. How can anyone see those numbers and not think of those Senators as on the take?
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The civil trial against BP for the biggest oil spill in US history began Monday. The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico poured an estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over 87 days in 2010.
What else should should be done to prevent devastating oil spills like this one? Do you think the gass hats have done enough to pay for arguably the worst environmental disaster in US history?
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