Isn’t it a shame that the tree huggers made the oil company drill far off shore with unproven technology when they could have drilled closer with proven technology. I guess shoreline vistas are more important than safety. Or let’s blame the oil companies, they were probably dieing to risk everything at 5000 feet instead of making guaranteed profits closer to land. Big Bad Business hates sure profit when they can risk billions instead.
BP has been employing many more people than commercial fishing for years. So lets put thousands of workers out of work to save the jobs of hundreds. BTW, have we closed down all the coal mines yet?
BP was forced to break the law offshore? They didn’t pay the remotest attention to legal requirements and testing their own safety equipment. Or, wait. They did and they knew it was going to kill 11 people and befoul the Gulf.
Which part of that is difficult to understand? The rig’s on fire. I told you this was gonna happen.
And you know what, we can live with coal mines a little longer, so long as there’s no Blankenship involved. If you didn’t know, he’s a psycopathic murderer connected with mining.
peachy, do you know how many people are killed in coal mines every year? apparently not. Do you know how many coal miners die of lung diseases each year? apparently not. And BP wasn’t the rig operator, TransOcean was.
Oh dear, more confusion from PSc. We should be glad that this oil spill did not occur closer to shore. There would have been much greater damage to the shoreline.
@Soldierboy - no, it was Elvis. He’s become immortal as a result of living with aliens, but they don’t have anything to slick down his hair, so He came back for something and forgot to turn it off.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
Isn’t it a shame that the tree huggers made the oil company drill far off shore with unproven technology when they could have drilled closer with proven technology. I guess shoreline vistas are more important than safety. Or let’s blame the oil companies, they were probably dieing to risk everything at 5000 feet instead of making guaranteed profits closer to land. Big Bad Business hates sure profit when they can risk billions instead.
myming over 14 years ago
sic,sick,sic.
Donaldo Premium Member over 14 years ago
Yes, Lewreader, let’s blame the oil companies.
MisngNOLA over 14 years ago
BP has been employing many more people than commercial fishing for years. So lets put thousands of workers out of work to save the jobs of hundreds. BTW, have we closed down all the coal mines yet?
peachyanddanny over 14 years ago
BP was forced to break the law offshore? They didn’t pay the remotest attention to legal requirements and testing their own safety equipment. Or, wait. They did and they knew it was going to kill 11 people and befoul the Gulf.
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/06/rigs-fire-i-told-you-was-gonna-happen
Which part of that is difficult to understand? The rig’s on fire. I told you this was gonna happen.
And you know what, we can live with coal mines a little longer, so long as there’s no Blankenship involved. If you didn’t know, he’s a psycopathic murderer connected with mining.
comYics over 14 years ago
Well, the cleanup has to start somewhere.
MisngNOLA over 14 years ago
peachy, do you know how many people are killed in coal mines every year? apparently not. Do you know how many coal miners die of lung diseases each year? apparently not. And BP wasn’t the rig operator, TransOcean was.
Charles Brobst Premium Member over 14 years ago
They will drill anywhere there is oil, 5 feet away or 5000 feet down, as long as they can do it as cheaply and recklessly as possible.
SmokyStover over 14 years ago
Oh dear, more confusion from PSc. We should be glad that this oil spill did not occur closer to shore. There would have been much greater damage to the shoreline.
runar over 14 years ago
They had to destroy the environment in order to save it…
runar over 14 years ago
@Soldierboy - no, it was Elvis. He’s become immortal as a result of living with aliens, but they don’t have anything to slick down his hair, so He came back for something and forgot to turn it off.
zuzette over 14 years ago
Where’s Red Adair when you need him?
runar over 14 years ago
Red Adair died in 2004.