Is this the kind of America you want?

There was a story out this weekend: Russia oil spills wreak devastation--In Russia's northern oil fields, an environmental tragedy _ drip by drip USINSK, Russia (AP) -- On the bright yellow tundra outside this oil town near the Arctic Circle, a pitch-black pool of crude stretches toward the horizon. The source: a decommissioned well whose rusty screws ooze with oil, viscous like jam. This is the face of Russia's oil country, a sprawling, inhospitable zone that experts say represents the world's worst ecological oil catastrophe. Environmentalists estimate at least 1 percent of Russia's annual oil production, or 5 million tons, is spilled every year. That is equivalent to one Deepwater Horizon-scale leak about every two months. Crumbling infrastructure and a harsh climate combine to spell disaster in the world's largest oil producer, responsible for 13 percent of global output. I ask you, is this the kind of world we want here in America? Do we want such a tiny government that corporations can make an ecological mess as big and devastating as this and walk away, unperturbed? Did you see China's air, the weeks before they hosted the Olympics? You couldn't see through it. Sure, we want "smaller government." I get that. I'm on board for that. But I'll tell you what I don't want. I don't want an EPA that is so small and weak that it can't monitor corporations and their possible pollution so things like these take place here in America. I do, in fact, want--heck, need--clean air, clean water and soil. Aren't we all "on board" for that? Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-enterprise-russia-oil-spills-050153139.html