Beyond Petroleum Oil Spill
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Oh, I think we can be pretty sure they don’t care.
Maybe that they are losing money!
Yep that one went south alright, WAY south
Unfortunately, there seems to be no end in sight.
Now who did they sacrifice this this time sending him into the pollutant without protective cover?? I guess they really do not have a proper safety procedure in place. Could be because they really don’t care.
Have no idea if this is a BP employee or not, really.
Are you sure that’s not a Hollywood stunt dummy?
Could be, you’d have to be a dummy to jump in like that.
I would rather see them cleaning the oil up …its so sad what BP has done to the wild life and the lifes of all the fisherman….
Oh they have a whole area on their website dedicated to informing the public on their cleanup, with an area for people to make claims against them for loss of income because of this.
Have you seen this website?
http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
It shows the oil spill where it is, and then it moves it to cover where you live. It is a pretty harrowing picture.
I’ve also moved around a lot, since my Dad was in the military. I just had my heart staying here, and I thought my husband was with me, and turns out we were on different pages. Life is full of compromises, and I know it will be fine. Just a bummer when plans have to change.
OMG…that link really puts into dramatic perspective! Thanks for sharing.
I know what you mean about plans changing, I have been through quite a few myself. I just keep on keepin on!
So unspeakably sad…
It’s truly devastating.
Oh don’t EVEN get me started!! Grrrrrr!!!
Haha…OK.
yep. thats me puking in the background…ridicuous…i gotta an idea, how about we apologize to them for being so hard on them…grrr….
Yea, right…I know what you mean. Some of the stuff I’ve seen in the media regarding this was almost comedic.
If they cared so much they would have had the most secure and stringent safety measures in place and they would not have pushed the whole works to the max so they could get more oil to make so much more money. I wonder if the whole truth will ever even be revealed about what actually happened to cause the leak. This is a disaster of major proportions and we are not hearing much about it anymore because the people who worked the rigs and pipes have not been able to stop it.
Hi TechnoBabe, you are right on all your points. I think eventually, the truth will have to come out (I hope). It’s just sickening how big corporations seem to get away with anything, everybody seems to be in bed with everybody else for one reason and on only, $$$.
It just keeps getting more grim and depressing everyday…
I know, especially when their attempts to stop the leak seem so idiotic when compared to their technology to start one.
If the automakers would get out of bed with the vermin of OPEC and the oil industry, they could make cars that run on just about anything else.
The spill is just another example of environmentalist hypocrisy: please don’t run me over while driving your Hummer as you leave the grocery store with your eco-friendly grocery bags!
As to the clean UP, the oceans are earth’s washing machine, the oil is gonna go where it wants to!
Plug it and move on!!
UP
I think you hit the nail on the head about auto manufacturers and oil tycoons!
It’s just like pharmaceuticals and certain incurable diseases.
This whole situation is depressing and makes me so furious. The damage that is being done to our planet, and the pain of those whose livelihoods are suffering because of this spill is inestimable. BP doesn’t give a flying rat’s a**, they are just trying to cover their own.
Absolutely, they are doing whatever they can to minimize public and governmental outrage.
BP is made up of total nimrods……..
Our MS gulf coast is receiving their gift now. So sad its sickening.
Unfortunately, this gift seems to keep on giving.
I’d like that CEO guy to have to swim in the thick of that crap in the ocean. See how much he likes it.
Wouldn’t that be a sight!
This is heartbreaking….Maybe if we moved the White House to the Gulf Coast, Obama would Move his A** and get going on the cleanup!
hughugs
Ha…maybe.
Of course, they care. They care about the bottom line!
Sad, but true.
It’s so true…
Yep
Don’t get me started either…. We are from south Louisiana, and BP can stick it…
One thing I’ve learned is to never get on the wrong side of a southern lady!
Dayum, if that doesn’t look like ol’ Kevin Costner’s topknot there? LOL
Seriously, we’ve a mess down here. BP just announced that they’ve got a well started within 20′ of the rupture, but that they are still over 900 feet away… which doesn’t sound that far. But, even when the mess stops flowing, the damage is done. The millions and millions of gallons of crude that is in the water will take a long time to cleanse.
I wish our President would allow the Dutch skimmers… and the other skimmers of foreign countries to come in and assist… they have offered.
*sighs*
~shoes~
Ha…Kevin Costner…you are so right about that.
The link http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/ left by Jessica @ One Shiny Star really puts the amount of crude that has been released into the ocean into sobering perspective.
Yeah, the quality of their PR is surpassed only by their fine safety record!
Which killed 11 workers during the initial explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, so sad.
The Wall Street Journal reported that BP argued against stricter safety regulations for the oil industry in letters to the Minerals Management Service last year. BP joined several other oil producers to say that the current voluntary safety rules were sufficient.
BP’s Vice President for Gulf of Mexico Production wrote:
“We believe the industry’s current safety and environmental statistics demonstrate that the voluntary programs..have been and continue to be very successful.”
So depressing. Yes, outside the barrel. Hm….
Very depressing.
I’ve never been to the Gulf of Mexico. Feel like I’ve missed the opportunity to see what it had to offer.
Yea, it will be a while before the Gulf will be the same.
Are these people serious??? This whole thing is just so depressing and so foolish that it could happen in the first place!
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very powerful blog,
full of wit and helpful hints.
keep up the excellence.
I’ve had to stop watching any of the oil spill coverage because it just makes me so upset to see the visuals… it’s such a tragedy.