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Making its way around the blogs and Facebook is this photo (right), posted on PublicCitizen:
(Hat tip: Huffington Post)
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Great find Domenico! Yeah the corrupt oil companies want to make sure we consumers are responsible for spilling gas at their stations but look at how they try to weasel out of their responsibility for when they spill their filthy oil all over our planet. Time for the federal government to kick some corrupt corporate ass, not just with the oil industry but also with the sleazy corrupt big bankers and hedge fund managers.
Queen Elizabeth has been very quiet during all this.
Hey Pat, Boston - maybe we could use her collection of Royal Bloomers to soak up all of BP Oil's oil spill.
Go Lakers!
BP is not any different than corrupt money hungry landlords who will boot your butt out the door if you are late on your rent, but who take months to respond (if at all) when an appliance they are responsible for breaks down. And if they do repair the applicance then you get a bill saying you are responsible for the cost of labor, "read the fine print on page 231 of your lease agreement".
The fact is this oil leak has not been stopped because BP has been trying to preserve the well head so that they can use the same to once again obtain oil at minimal cost while in the process of drilling for a second relief line (not to be completed until August). If they really had wanted to shut down the leaking well head completely they could have done so soon after the initial explosion.
CA could you please quantify or prove your statement in any way or form. If this is in fact true, then unless you are someone with inside information or extraordinary facts that the US government with all their connections are not privy too or, they are hiding this information from the american public and are in cahoots with BP. If that is the case, then I lay the blame of this oil spill's continued damage squarely on the heads of the current administration.
What a bunch of whiny babies... BP has said from the start that they are responsible for cleaning the spill.
I see nothing wrong with reminding customers that they are responsible for THEIR spills at the pump.
BP doesn't give a Rats xxx about that particular pump... they were trying to shut it down as quick as they could and go to another location when the disaster hit. By all means, don't let the facts get in the way of your irrational hate towards companies who actually employ working people...
Yeah right, employ them at what costs to others including the environment.....
Did they care about their employees when they ignored the warnings that something was wrong? 11 people are dead, 11 families lost someone dear. Was it an accident, yes, but it was a preventable accident that heeding the warnings, stopping the drilling and spending a few extra days could have prevented. Instead of saving a million, they lost billions and those 11 people paid the ultimate price for their bad judgement. The warnings were there for all three companies involved--Halliburton, TransOcean and BP, none of them had the courage to say--NO, let's stop and see if there's a problem.
I don't try to overfill my gas tank and thus no spill. I make sure the pump has stopped pumping and that all fuel in the nozzle is out before removing it from the fill hole. I make sure that the nozzle is all the way into the fill hole and tube before squeezing the handle to start pumping. It really isn't hard. Yes, I am responsible for carelessness in a simple act of pumping fuel for my vehicle and that is why I don't cause spills.
Pretty much sums it up.
Superduper Tuesday in Iowa. I voted. People coming and going but no long lines.
Good journalism has been those NBC, MSNBC, CBS, etc. correspondents showing us the oil disaster damage, researching what the impact will be on the wetlands, the wildlife, the Gulf residents and none of those excellent reports contained a personal opinion or something irrelevant to the story. They gave us a good dose of reality about the true costs and the difficulty facing us. We've heard honest assessment about our collective inability to just "fix it" but the honest analysis gets lost in the opinion and critic's views of how it should be, how we'd like it to be.
No one needs reminding that this is serious--there is no precedence to guide us, it is ever changing and evolving. The Fed Government's ability to respond is limited: clean up and coordination, rescue and recovery, holding those responsible accountable, helping the people, figuring out what happened and how to prevent it in the future, aiding State and local officials, etc.
The past several weeks the headlines, stories, op ed columns, pundit outrage were: the president is too calm; is this Obama's Katrina; president not showing anger; too cool to lead. What is today's headline: President wants to kick ass. None of the headlines or opinions plug the darn hole. There's plenty of blame to go around but blame doesn't plug the hole either.
None of the opinions, pundit outrage or critic views are worth a grain of salt in the reality that BP dug a hole into the earth to pump oil and in the process blew up a well 5000 ft down that requires a robot to fix and failed to plan for this type of disaster.
(great find) counter with:
okay, but that"s the ONLY BP spill we're going to be responsible for!
Oh, the irony!