Wealth

Why did the protestant European North become rich? Why not the south? Why did North America became rich and not South America? Why do Southern European countries bring the Euro down and not Northern European?

There’s only one answer even though there are countless rationalizations.

At the movies

You know, by God I actually pity those poor bastards we’re going up against. By God, I do. We’re not just going to shoot the bastards, we’re going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel.

— Patton

Oil Seeps

Natural oil spills in the form of oil seeps release about double the volume dumped by the Exxon Valdez every year into the Gulf – over 22 million gallons per year. The sea life in and around the Gulf of Mexico use these hydrocarbons as fertilizer for the bacterial life at the bottom of the food chain and support some of the most productive marine ecosystems around this continent.

Source

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