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This May 16 photo shows shovels used to load shrimp into containers at Ken Lee's Dock, a seafood dock, in Lafitte, La. The mood on the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town in the Barataria estuary, a traditional seafood basket for New Orleans, is gloomy as the second full year of fishing since BP's catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear.
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Tuna Pham, a shrimper, talks as he works on his idle boat in Lafitte, La.
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Empty crab hampers, foreground, and crab traps, rear right, at Crescent Seafood, a seafood dock, in Lafitte, La. This spring, catches are down, docks are idle and anxiety is growing that the ill effects of the BP spill may be far from over.
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Wade Christian, rear, sorts crabs at a seafood dock in Lafitte, La.
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An idle shrimp boats sits in Lafitte, La.
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So I guess these guys haven't seen BP's glossy commercials. They should watch more tv, and everything would be great.
Yeah, the gulf is back, and better than ever (for our bottom line, that is)!
No one will listen. The oil spill is yesterdays news, unfortunately. BP will continue to win delays in the trial that would make them answer for their carelessness - and people will forget, and justice will not be served.
Ah...who cares about the Gulf? As long as I gots me my Hemi!!!
Accidents do happen in the industrial world, but the question come up every day, "What are we doing to get off of the oil addiction?" With all the billions invested into oil exploration, we could have the entire Gulf Coast lined with windmills producing electricity.
We really do need to rethink that Hemi mentality...but no, that would mean that the, (oh dare is say it,) The EVIL Government will make laws on the miles per gallon on vehicles that are produced for sale in the USA.
Dear GOD!!! Not Government controls...how un Republican of me....
Im from that area,it will recover a lot faster than this country will from four years of Berrie regime!He has almost stopped all new permits in the gulf.He cancelled a pipeline worth 50,00 jobs,he's not allowing production in Utah,Colorado,part Wyoming of shale oil which would ease the pain of dealing with the middle east bandits.Your solution is impractical.The technology for wind turbines and solar just isn't there yet.No sense in trying to believe otherwide.Otherwise,we will become a third world country faster than Berrie has planned!Besides you will just complain about the number of birds that already die(over a million per year) in the wind turbines.You and your environuts have already stopped the two solar farms set up in Washington and California over concerns for a fox and rat,niether of whom are endangered to be extinct! You want be happy until we are all hundling with hemp grown and made balnkets out in the desert!
Don't you remember? Obama said "Crisis averted, the fish are safe to eat" so there are no problems mate.
We are about 5-10 years from a viable electric car. Until then all the windmills in the world won't help you get to work.
Also, solar is now the lowest cost alternative energy source, not wind, it's now as cheap as coal if you DIY it. Many people do it, there are sites all over the Internet that will sell you everything you need wholesale.
Back to oil, since we won't have a viable alternative for half a dozen years and it takes 17 years to turn over our fleet, we need cheap gas for at least 25 years, if not 50. We should drill like mad now to keep costs down until electrics are viable and the charging infrastructure is in place.
maso98, do you like to make up things? Didn't your mom tell you that's called lying? We all read the news here, not even a nice try. Oil is killing the gulf and changing the fish population, forever. Read about it on google.
i hate bp.
Hi michelle. How's it going???
that didn't take long.
Everyone hates or blames BP. What happen to the Federal regulators who OK the well head and gave the green light just days before the environmental disaster?
Why do people assume Big Government is for the people?
yep. it's just sickening. i love seafood, but you can't stop thinking about what you eating every time you take a bite anymore. it's radioactive from the japanese disaster or contaminated from oil.
So writes Valhalla Phil. Of course, the President said no such thing, but Valhalla Phil hates President Obama, so he lies. Liars lie, that's what they do.
It's what BP did and is still doing. They lie. So, when FatCat asks why did federal regulator approve BP's plans, the answer is that regulators relied on liars - BP. That is not to say that the feds get everything right. They don't, but is it fair to blame them for relying on what was presented to them as truth by BP?
We rely on others routinely, assuming they are telling us the truth. The banks are careful with our deposits. No, they aren't. Stockbrokers make wise investments. No, they don't. Fracking is safe. No, it's not.
What we are seeing is a multi-billion dollar debacle that is still unwinding, and will continue to do so for at least another decade. Only a fool believes that a disaster of this magnitude heals virtually overnight. But BP says it does.
And Republicans tell us these people are the salvation of the United States. Regulations are evil. Cut corporate taxes. Stop with the onerous burden on our friendly corporations. Then, in lies so vile, so twisted, they tell us it's the government's fault, and YOUR fault, for believing Republican lies.
Vote G.O.P. - Suicide by Republican.
Valhalla Phil, please give a reference for that quote. Odd that I can find it on the Web. I suspect you cannot. Conservatives tend to make things up to further their hatred of the president.
I know that the President called on Congress to use the disaster as a springboard to legislation to bring about alternative energy sources as a means of getting us off fossil fuels. Guess who blocked any attempt at such legislation? Conservatives!
Of course, it could be that his Wall Street advisers have convinced him that the crises is over. The President is not blameless here because of his selection of advisers. It is the (neo)conservatives--Wall Street's representatives in Congress--that are to blame. And, yes, all conservatives now follow the Strauss-Rand political philosophies of self enrichment be any means necessary, which, in congress, is marriage to Wall Street.
@FatCatGets$700Bil, I'm assuming by your statement that you blame "regulators" not doing their jobs properly? Then you use that as an attack on "big government?" What the heck are you trying to say? Was the problem the "regulators," or the regulations? You make no sense.
What was needed here was MORE regulations. It should have been required that the well head be fitted with acoustic blowout preventers. H.R.1520 -- Offshore Drilling Safety Improvement Act, which would require deep water drillers to install acoustic blowout preventers has been stalled on the Republican House for over a year. You can be sure this will go no further. Most likely it's dead.
#1.9 -
You are contradiction yourself, and it seems you are oblivious to it, so what does that say? so smaller " GoverNment " means less inspectors less regulations means BP like corporation running the system, so what was Your complaint, about?>
#1.14
Indeeed the " Blow out prevent-er " was never operational, have a look at My photo album and read what was on a photo about it, they could have used a Hydraulic Crimp, to shut off the oil flow in a mater of HOURS not days or weeks, then as I explain on the photo a collar fixed by robots to the lower pipe section with flange, and one could have then lowered a match Valve with a collar line, so that it would have automatically " matched " this was not a botched event, this was a Multi BILLION Dollars profit for all concerned, do a calculation of how much $$$$ they made with the selling of clean up equipment, and how much they still make in the future, their damages claims are limited by LAW and guess what it is the TAX Payers that end up paying.
I've always been partial to the taste of carcinogenic oil ladened sea food, deep sea oil instead of tarter anyone?
Whether you know it or not,you will get old,if you are lucky and you will die.Cancer cells are more hereditery than environmental! But you idiots think if progress stops,so will your aging! The only thing that stops aging is death!Happy trails!
One of these days a massive hurricane is going to dredge it all back up and smear the entire gulf coast with black ooze!
Here's a clue dummy! Huuricanes don't drege up the ocen floor ,one mile down or even one half mile down.The remains ,if any are all below one mile.So go eat your crabs and old lady!
Maybe you should learn how to spell "ocean". Lead paint won't kill you if you eat it today, like most carcinogens, it'll get you in a few years.
mas, Most of the oil that is left is on barrier islands. There are still miles of islands that are barren of most life; hundreds of miles of shore where oil tars are readily found. When the next hurricane hits, it doesn't have to dredge this oil off the ocean floor. hundreds of tons of it are right there at the surface.
Lead paint isn't a carcinogen. What gets you is lead poisoning. And Stand and Deliver is right about the potential effects of a hurricane. It doesn't need to dredge up the deep ocean floor. There's plenty of oil and tar on the barrier islands and in the sands just off the beaches.
Everyone knew a major oil spill, was going affect the environment for decades to come, all the fish, crabs, birds the whole Eco environment, and that it was going to cost lot's of jobs and billions of dollars.
Fish farming off the coast of Australia anyone?
Your thought are light weight and foolish! Ever been to a chicken farm,a cattle ranch,a seafood plant.You have a better chance of getting something harmful from the processing plants than you do from the seafood form the gulf.Stocks might be down or maybe,some lazy fishermen see a chance to take a year off and still getp aid.My uncle fished for shrimp for 40 years.When he worked,he worked hard.When he didn't ,he was a lazy bastard!
My thought is light weight and foolish? the water is polluted, there is little to no shrimp, and your going to blame in on fisherman being lazy? And you want to question my thought processes! LOL
Since there's never been a such catastrophic oil spill in a seafood fishing area like the Gulf before, there's no telling when the seafood will be safe to eat. How long ago was the Exxon Valdez tanker spill in Alaska - March 1989. They are still finding oil embedded in the sand and dirt of the coastline, 23 years later.
The Exxon Valdez spill was a drop in the bucket compared to BP's fiasco.
Everything we eat is in a chain of life. As such the oil in our oceans will come back to poison humans over the years and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out. Look at the plastic waist dump that is larger then the state of Texas in the middle of our ocean. There are pictures I have seen of the pollution leaving third world countries from there rivers that extend for miles and miles that tangle and kill all kinds of animal weather bird, fish or mamal. What about the algae blooms every year that arise from those all the major rivers of advanced countries that extend up to 10,000 miles and make the ocean not breathable to fish of all kinds. Our reefs are dieing. Our glaciers disappear and our forest in many locations are dieing out from drought and desease (not to mention mankinds deforestation in the name of progress). The picture I paint is not a good one but the facts speak for themselves upon the deef ears of mankind whom only wants to survive and have kids which feeds the cycle. Nature will not forgive us as we have not been the good shepard. Nature is cruel and the three horseman of the apocalypse ride upon us even as we debate our fate (desease, famine and war). Yet we turn our backs and refuse to sacrafice today for a better tomorrow. The machine is set in motion and there are no brakes to stop us from driving off the cliff!!! What say you?
GlenderBender, some of us heard the same story back in the 1960s and pushed for a change in the thinking of people. What happened? The thinking people had one or two kids and now are out populated by the ignorant.
I, of course, have always been disappointed with the bird flu...
Do you have the slightlest clue of how much oil leaks naturally from the ocean floors eveyday.I can remember living near a river in Louisiana.You could smell the natural gas in the swamps.Oil would seep so much when I went hunting in the swamps,I would were hippers ,.not to keep dry but to keep the oil off me! you people speculate but don't have a clue to which you are commenting !
hence the high levels of mercury in seafood.
mas, Again really? Perhaps you should take a trip to Prince William Sound. It's been 23 years since the Exxon Valdez spill and the fisheries are barely 1/10th of what they were before. Shallow water and coastal fish are still too contaminated to safely eat. Most grasses along the coast have only started to return. The birth defect rate of what few seasonal birds that still return is 15 to 20 times the regional average.
And yes, I might have a clue as to "which you are commenting" since three of my students recently completed their masters theses there.
Yes, oil does leak from the ocean floor every day. But it doesn't leak out all in one spot. There's a big difference between a natural process and a man-made disaster. Not that you care, of course, because you don't think it affects you in any way.
Sad, who shall inherit the despoiled Earth now that we are almost done with it?
I am 52 but I have a 7 yr old boy. My life is near its conclusion in 20 or 30 yrs. but my child may live to see horrors I can't even imagine. For that matter I may see the start of something horrible if we don't do something.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" according to the "bible" - and by that time, no one will want it.
The cockroaches.
Glenderbender: That's precisely why something must be done, sooner than later - we must consider future generations, if only our own children. I wish there were a simple solution, even a small change in our attitude as a species.
I am guilty of pollution everyday. It matters not how I reduce what I use or how I use old water bottles and a filter. How I have built solar panels to help me reduce my electric. I still need to eat and drive to work! I personally can only do small things. It takes nations to do big things.
Netegexi, be careful, next thing you know you will be calling for the sterilization of idiots that have 30 kids from 11 different mothers and...well that sounds like being a ...dare I say...NAZI!
And Glenderbender, getting a change in social thinking may get you labeled a "Socialist" and you just know that that equates to being a "Communist". I mean ANY control is a "slippery slope". Well, I suppose that if ones goal is to maximize profit then putting pollution controls on the factories and power plants would eat into that profit and well...asking for that would be anti profit and make you a...here we go again...SOCIALIST / COMMUNIST!
Best wishes to you both.
Not to worry! The earth is very capible of healing itself,it's not a fish in tank in your livnig room.It's vast and superior to anything man can come up with.Man can't produce a hurricane,a tornado,whirlwinds,sunamies! We are at the earth's mercy,not the other way around!
" I personally can only do small things. It takes nations to do big things."
That's dead wrong. The problem is 80% of carbon is from individuals, not corporations. It is ONLY individuals that will be able to make changes. The most government will do is put a gun to your head and force you to buy solar panels and electric cars.
The government already give you a 30% tax credit for solar and a $7500 incentive to buy a Leaf. If everyone who bitched about this actually put their money where their month is, we'd already be in great shape. Sorry, you can't spend other people's money on this one, you have to pony up.
Well take a look people; as you have republicans running the house and congress you can see what they do for there rich brithish buddys;We never got ride of them;when we though we freed our country from them.So do your self a favor; vote then out from both of the above!they will only lie to you and take care of there own kind leaving nothing for the middle class.Start paying attention to thing going on around you don't worry about big news that is the smoke screen that they use to keep you busy; so they can complete there agenda.Smarten up people gain forces against; them or they will run you over like a bug. Thats what they are; making you!!!!!!!
You are an idiot and idiots should not own computer but in the Berrie administration,everyone is a king.I probably paid for that fukking thing and you don't have enough brains to turn it on,do you? Yes the republicans just want to be back in power to enslave us ! You have any idea how stupid that is? The dimocrap have run this coutry for most of the last century! What have they given us,A deepression,several recession,segregation,wars of unparelled magnitude,dust bowls,famine! So don't ride your hours too proudly,becaues there is lot more pain the dimocrap have given us than pleasure!
It is democrats that destroyed this economy after they took over congress. That's what we get for turning over our capitalist economy to a bunch of socialists headed by a Marxist.
Green takes money if you want more green initiatives, vote out all democrats so we can return to fiscal sanity and be able to afford such luxuries again.
All these electric cars got their start in Bush's administration, Bush spent more on alternative energy research than all his predicessors, Bush removed the $2,000 limit for renewable energy tax credits, Bush also put 10KW of solar on the white house.
Really Phil-you must come from the same village as that village idiot from Crawford, Texas. If you wanna talk about supporting socialism..why don't you start with W going to war with borrow money and making China richer at our expense through debt on bonds. How about allowing the largest outsourcing of jobs to China in the US history? Or how about the White House going to bat to defend China and Walmart against chinese unfair trading practices?
Solyndra was a exception..a minor error. Look at the overrall picture you myopic peabrain. Half a billion dollar failure is nothing compare to the billions of dollars in failure from the tax breaks for flex fuel that drove food prices up. Solar and wind power is the future. We were at the forefront but you idiotic GOP keep blocking progress and that's why China is the leading manufacturer and producer of solar and wind power in the world.
You GOP always bitch about progressive practices. Remember all the conservative bitching about recycling..now it's a whole new industry and tons of companies are making money recycling. Let's talk about Bush giving tax credits for huge SUV when oil prices was going up? How about billions of tax credit for the Big 3 and the corn industry for flex fuel..where is that now? Let's waste resources to grow food to make fuel resources..real smart thinking..NOT! If dumb ass W and anal retentive conservatives stop fighting CAFE standards and set higher fuel economy goals..the big 3 wouldn't have been in as much trouble as it had and we wouldn't have to waste taxes to bailed them out. But then laissez faire economics is that..naive economics!
Bush was an oil man and couldn't get the oil prices down..gas was the highest in the last 3 decades under him. The big 3 resisted hybrids and push Flex Fuel. BTW idiot, elctric car didn't start under Bush..the modern electric car as we know today was started under Clinton..the GM EV1. The first generation of the Prius went on sale in Japan in 1997.
Say it, constipated
That human beings are basically selfish and the all mighty buck trumps the environment every time!
Next let's hear the name calling of tree huggers, the oil co's and energy co's don't want green energy, because it will hit them in the pocket, but they could be leading the way, but NO, the next big push more fracking.
Yes it's really safe and won't hurt the enviroment to shoot chemicals into the ground, no it won't affect ground water, you can light the water from your well on fire? well that's a natural occurrence blah blah blah!
What is your alternative? Each person given a tree for fuel for a year?You environuts don't like oil.You don't like nuclear,the safest and best alternative to oil.The Chinese are building 60 nuclear plants right now and it takes us 25-30 years just to get a permit because of nuts like you.Cureently there is ONE nuclear plant under construction in the USA.You like solar but when they build two nice sized farms and a fukking fox dies,just in the vicinity,you demand all production stop until they prove the fox wasn't killed by the solar farm.The same is true about a rat in Mexifornia.You liked wind turbines until you found out turbines kill about one million birds a year.Not you are not sure you like them.You never want a tree cut down even when the trees have been grown for harvest. Tell me please,what do do want! All you ever do is bitch about what you don't want!
Actually big oil is investing heavily in alternatives, both BP and Exxon are into bio-fuels big time. Don't forget, they want something to sell once the wells run dry.
>maso98
Ok, so forget about the fact that despite being progressive, I disagree with every one of your ludicrous and disparaging characterizations of what progressives think. You have no idea...probably too busy talking. I've read your comments.
As for Solar farms, that's a stupid idea. The Germans have done a brilliant job by simply shingling their roofs with composite solar tiles. You get a great roof that lasts for 35-50 years while producing more electricity than the house itself needs, and the electricity is distributed by the existing grid. Next time I'll tell you the difference between Chinese nuclear facilities and the US equivalents. If you're listening...
Yey Fossil Fuel Culture: Dead Dying and Diseased Oceans. What a world...
So.....where's the story?
its a photo blog... there is no story other then the pictures
Exactly.A few baots sitting in barbor probably with the crew out celebrating a big catch and drunk! You don't know these people ,I do! They will tell you sh*t just to read about and laugh!
Seriously! Are you REALLY serious?! How can anyone POSSIBLY think that the BP Oil Spill catastrophe would not effect the environment for decades to come?! Sorry, but those of you that think all is well in the Gulf Coast: LOOK AGAIN! Why is MSNBC devoting a full story about the Gulf Stream's fishermens' plight? Sea life has been drastically altered by the BP spill. What BP will pay in damages is a mere pittance to the devastation. BP reaps billions, maybe even trillions in profits, but BP will only pay damages in minimal, fractional amounts to their corporate earnings. The BP Spill isn't just local, it's global. This will effect other waters. The Ocean is not a sewage system and dumping ground. When is everyone finally going to get it?
Stephie, come on, you know that it is the Whales eating all the fish that is causing the problem. We should hunt Whales to extinction and then the oceans will be full of fish for our 7 billion mouths to feed.
I do not eat fish from the ocean and would be happy to see a 2 year moratorium on fishing anywhere. Put the fisherman on the dole for a couple of years and then let them go back out to depopulate the fish stocks once again.
You are insane and you should stop reading these comments immediately,this is your doctor.I know you! I want you to go and check the tin foil in your cap,take your meds and go nighty!Call me tomorrow.I don't have the time for another of your meltdowns!Please do as I say!
Remind me again why it is that taxpayers subsidize the oil behemoths.
Same reason Berrie gave one half a billion dollar to a dying fish(solyndra),so to speak!
Oil companies take tax write offs just like every other corporation.
Half a billion dollars? Mere chicken feed compared to the corporate welfare doled out ( annually, not just once ) to the most profitable corporations in history.
Oxygen depletion in the lower depths (which is where most of this oil and tar will eventually end up) will undoubtedly suppress bottom feeder populations. The oil companies are clearly hoping for a better legal climate following the next election. - RC
Hey Ricky.Hate to break it to you but we live in a republic not a democracy! There is a difference!
Do you have evidence of your claims or is this more political hyperbole?
MSN has just about covered every topic that concerns the leftist socialist liberals......Race,Abortions,healthcare,Animals rights and now the Environment.
MSN doesnt hide their relationship with liberal socialist.
also, has anyone noticed MSNBC/NBC new slogan they adopted last year. its..... "lean forward"
obama's new slogan for this new election year....."forward"
its scary.
No disclaimer? (This has been a paid political announcement.) - RC
(Socialism is the LEGITIMATE feedback mechanism for IMPERFECT DEMOCRACY.) - RC
Socialism will be the downfall of the U.S.
The E.U. is proving this.
Perfect democracy will eventually lead to a perfect distribution of wealth. In the meanwhile, socialism is the legitimate means of compensating for imperfect democracy. To whatever degree you achieve perfect democracy you also do away with the need for socialism in the process. - RC
Don't forget the HOMOSEXUALS! ten straight days with an article about gays/labanese.Today is the 11th day but I didn't count it because no one could comment on the article.They did three day on Trayvon Martin this week.I understand next week they are going to do a rerun of the MLK assennation! After thar,JFK! wuhhhh!After that,the linberg kidnapping!
oh yes, distribution of wealth. where would the lazy,uneducated be without distribution of wealth.
On the streets dressed as women looking for a date!
Again we do not have a democracy we have a republic, and socialism is the answer to nothing. It is capitalism that made us the greatest nation on earth, now it is making China the greatest nation on earth while we hobble ourselves with a bankrupt socialist movement. The more socialist we have become, the further we've fallen behind.
Obama wanted us to be more like Europe, he is getting his wish. If he isn't booted, we'll be Greece in 6-8 years.
form of distribution of wealth:
S.S.I. checks for the lazy and uneducated of america.
Welfare checks for lazy, uneducated women who have nothing better to than to lay around and push out kids.
Foodstamps for everyone on S.S.I. and Welfare.
medicaid for everyone on S.S.I. and Welfare.
Unemployment checks for 2+ years for those who lost jobs.
Heating assistance for those who claim to be poor.
Free cell phones and service for those who claim to be poor.
and the list goes on and on and on.
Rick, that is about the most insane thing I have ever heard. A perfect democracy would never lead to perfect distribution of wealth, and neither does socialism. In every society there is some at the top and some at the bottom. We should be going with the system that is the most fair.....capitalism. China is embracing capitalism as we shy away from it. End result is jobs go to CHina and their middle class is growing.
EDT.ADC,Public schools ,emergency rooms,rent subsudies,utility subsidies,free consouling,In don't know for whateven free berr.The ruin our parks,our schools,our cities,our states.Mexicans are a plight on America.I just wish there was medicine to stop them .Maybe if we spent some of that AIDS research money ,we could fine a cyre.Hell I don't know how many times I've stopped at a corner and there is a Mexican with her ninos.She will have 3-5 and none are older than six.Know where she is going? Walking to school to pickup the other 5.They are in grads 1 thru 5!Overpopulation is a vastly more serios problem for the earth than all the crab you guys came up with tonight.Go back and research,whow much dmage the planet is going to suffer from another billion or two people in this earth! THen come back and complain about one oil spill!
Phil- the more I read your posts..the more I can't believe how stupid people really are! China is still a socialist economy! It's a command economy.The largest sovereign wealth funds in the world is owned by the Chinese Communist. Most of the largest companies in China are SOE (State Owned Enterprise).
Look at your logic, you are praising China yet it is the very socialist economic policy that is driving their growth. Take a lesson in macroeconomics..it might boost your IQ you simian. What don't you look at Germany..it has the 4th largest economy in the world yet has the highest minimum wage, benefits, socialized heathcare, vacation time in among EU members? What do you have to say about that Adam Smith's idiotic twins?
If you don't like msnbc then why come here and comment? Go to the faux noise site and comment! Oh yeah, can't do that now can ya, the fair and unbalanced don't like actual discussions! LOL
They invade my computer ,i don't invade there articles!
Is that the uber left's idea of debating,sitting aorund singing cum ba ya with your fellow libturds on one of these threads.I beleive,i checked this morning,you don't own this thread and I do.So I want you and your trash to leave,NOW!
Actual discussions? Like here! If you don't behave,i'm taking my ball home!WHAAAAA!
If there is any lesson to be learned here it would be that oversight on anyone who would cut corners on preventive maintenance or construction of substandard well heads and drilling platforms would not only have saved British Petroleum, TransOcean, and Halliburton Billions in fines and Lawsuits, but it also would have prevented more Environmental Disasters to the Seafood chain, Tourism Industry and Beautiful scenery then anyone could have Imagined.
It would have been way more cost effective to everyone concerned to make sure these drilling rigs were sound before they went into operation.
Effective and sensible Oversight is the Take away here.
You are not privy to what measures BP and others have taken to lessen the affects of this oil spill. It's not like they went out one day and said ,lets fukk up the gulf.! It was an accident,just like Barries election.I don't hold that asgainst you and he has done more harm top everything in America than one oil spill!I noticed all the birds,fishes,sea mamaels are back in tremendous stock in Alaska.Oh sh*t that doesn;t work with your thesis,does it.! Give it a break and take a nappy.Get up and feed your fish in the tank and tell them how much you love them and how much better they are ,staying inyour hovel than in the bg bad, polluted oceans!I can tell ,none of you have ever been out on a boat in an ocean.There you will get a revelation about how massive the planet is and how unlikely our destruction of is!Sleep tight,I'll bring you your Starbuck's in the morning.Nighty!
Good night, Boys!
Despite your adolescent tirades/Temper Tantrums on these threads, I guarantee you, anyone operating a drilling Rig after the B/P Disaster will have Preventive Maintenance foremost in their minds.
A few thousand dollars of maintenance would have saved B/P Billions.
Was it worth it?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
What a ridiculously expensive lesson to relearn...
Lawyers for BP are seeking compensation for providing cooks in the Gulf, and everywhere, with pre-oiled fish, ready for the frying pan. Executives at BP have ordered their pretty green logo be used as assurance that these pre-oiled fish are wholesome. Indeed, executives at BP have done a taste test, serving up their pre-oiled fish to their illegal immigrant gardeners. The few gardeners who have died so far are being used as mulch - BP is green, you know.
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LOL Loved that " pre oiled pre digested " :-))
Hey Maso and Valhalla Phil, I find your undereducated, ignorant, bigoted rantings so amusing. Thank you for displaying an alert lack of consciousness. I love it when I run across those who are unconsciously incompetent. In essence, you blame the POTUS for the BP oil spill, its got to be his fault, after all everything else is. BP got hit with an 80 billion dollar bond served up on a silver setting by the POTUS - that's in the bank guys, in the bank. The real issue here is simple - reliance on oil to sell to the world markets. Keystone won't produce 50,000 jobs and the POTUS did not stop it. He simply listened to the citizens of Nebraska who wanted as much of a guarantee that they could get to insure the safety of their water aquifer. The POTUS ordered a new environmental search, which is so logical that you and your twin brother cannot understand the simplicity of a humane and environmentally sensitive issue. The Canadian company is busy right now putting together a new route and once that is done, the Keystone will move ahead, yet will not reduce gasoline prices in the USA. That oil is going overseas Maso and Phil.
I remember Bush sitting in a comfortable chair in Air Force one,, surveying the damage of Katrina and yet, to lazy to land the plane and got out and help the citizens of New Orleans.
Obama/Biden 2012
Thank you William,take it from someone who knows. Our trawling season open last week,theres nothing out there. There was a time when so much shrimp was caught,they would give them away. That's what we as a people down here are. It's beyond devastation,our whole enviroment ruined. We as a people have live side by side with oil companies,what they did is so out of the realm of decency. It's amazing that some people have no empathy,just rape and pillage everything,peoples lives, who cares.Green has been the driving force,it's called green backs. Profit over peoples lives, just like Romney did at Bain. OBAMA-BIDEN 2012 J-MAL
William, you got it right.
Join the club. The entire country is in a state of fear economically and that's why this recession continues to linger. President's can't do a whole lot to create private sector jobs but they CAN do plenty to f*ck things up.
Romney 2012!
You and all the other Republican mouthpieces would like everyone to believe that the Sky is Falling because of Obama when in reality, the Sky will remain long after you and I are long gone.
Keep trying to sell the Fear just to get the Republicans their Jobs back.
Republicans will come to the rescue my Butt.
The Republicans are the Reason for the messes that are being cleaned up right now and you want them to have their Jobs back?
Rest assured that Republicans will be back in force removing any regulations on BANKSTERS and Big Oil just so we can open ourselves to another B/P Disaster or another Bush Sub Prime Melt Down. I am more afraid of that then any fear of Obama you're trying to instill...
Nuts!
The Republicans are the Reason for the messes that are being cleaned up right now and you want them to have their Jobs back?
That line just about says it all. The country voted for hope and change and all they got was duck and blame. Obama is running on what exactly? It sure isn't his sterling record. Just look at his campaign and you'll have everything you need to know. He has no choice but to continue tearing us apart with his class warfare BS and putting all the favored special interest groups into their little victim compartments. He's walked away from everyone else.
Ironically the guy who was going to lower the level of the seas, get everyone to like us again and make the birds sing once more has had to centerpiece an execution (Osama) as his calling card. If you can't find humor in that......
I'm independent enough to look before I leap. As a long-time observer I note that the recent and current republican 'agenda' is way off the chart against the people of the world not just us in the United States. Been there done that. Let's not back track, let's go FORWARD...
Those who vote Romney 2012 will prove for generations three facts: 1) "foolish is as foolish does;" 2) "a mind is a terrible thing to waste;" and 3) "you get what you pay for." And, there will be a terrible price to pay, as prosperity is never going to be for all nor only for a few, but always for those FREE to pursue it.
No disrespect intended, but, take your shackles off. Don't be so smart that you're dumb ... or dare I say: "don't be no fool." You've got two ears and one mouth for a reason. Use them wisely. Be quick to listen and slow to speak!!! If you do I'm more than sure you'll see why voting Obama/Biden 2012! is the right way to go. If not, then please do us all a favor and be the last one to complain. Have a blessed day.
I'm independent enough to look before I leap. As a long-time observer I note that the recent and current republican 'agenda' is way off the chart against the people of the world not just us in the United States. Been there done that. Let's not back track, let's go FORWARD...
Those who vote Romney 2012 will prove for generations three facts: 1) "foolish is as foolish does;" 2) "a mind is a terrible thing to waste;" and 3) "you get what you pay for." And, there will be a terrible price to pay, as prosperity is never going to be for all nor only for a few, but always for those FREE to pursue it.
No disrespect intended, but, take your shackles off. Don't be so smart that you're dumb ... or dare I say: "don't be no fool." You've got two ears and one mouth for a reason. Use them wisely. Be quick to listen and slow to speak!!! If you do I'm more than sure you'll see why voting Obama/Biden 2012! is the right way to go. If not, then please do us all a favor and be the last one to complain. Have a blessed day.
It will take a national change of heart to take care of this crisis. It's will have to reshape the whole make up of this country. There's so much to be done to get over this oil hang up. Infrastructure will have to be built - high speed rail, etc. Then you'll have to decentralize farming so that the food is grown close to the area that will consume it -- bring the farms back to local areas. Done correctly with healthy farming methods this will cure the disease issue with the livestock. Bring back urban gardens. Buy small -- smaller houses and cars. Only oil and coal energy can sustain these large houses and cars. This is just the tip of it. And now you can see why this country will not do anything about the issue. Of course, if we were able to clean our house, then there's India and China to worry about. We started the mass pollution of the globe, but they sure as heck will finish it.
After Exxon Valdez stopped buying gas at their stations. After BP Gulf Oil spill stopped buying gas at their stations. May not make a whole lot of difference to their bottom line, but every little thing that can be done to remind these corporations of the damage they have done is worthwhile.
I only wish that I didn't have to use fossil fuels at all. Too many compromises made between government and industry (Federal Big Oil) have led to decades of low vehicle MPG and absolutely no movement in the alternative energy sector.
I feel sad for the people whose livelyhoods are most likely gone forever, and for the loss of their resources - it's a loss for all of us.
Funny thing about the conservatives, they go on and on about the National debt, with the line being, "what are we leaving for our children"? "They will be saddled with all of this debt". "How will they live"?
In the meantime, Corporate pollution is killing waterways, (the gulf), fracking is damaging inland aquifers, subsidized Big Ag has all but killed the family farms, producing GMO grains that Food Corporations load with high fructose corn syrup and god know what else and Americans are the most obese that they have ever been with numerous health problems from diet. The Corporation execs are getting richer by poisoning the rest of the world. The Big Banks are right back to their old tricks skimming money out of pension funds and IRA's through manipulation of the stock market. My question is: what are we leaving for our children, how will they live?
I have not used BP gas since the gulf accident