Hardest way possible to learn environmental lessons – oil now on Florida’s beaches. Destroying Canadian Wetlands meant nothing because they were so far away, this is different for Yankee Doodle isn’t it, right in his own back yard. As a third world country, bombed into the stone age by Americans even Iraq seems so far away from American daily affairs, but now as we draw to the close of the cheap oil age, a comeuppance for our great V-8 engines and life in the ‘burbs! This time around, we pick up the tab.