Jun 10 2010
Does the Navy Lie?
I’m thinking, probably.
Does it lie with as much alacrity as BP?
I’m pretty sure, probably not.
Why haven’t we gotten the Navy in there to babysit those colossal infants at Beyond Puke? I’m sick and tired of BP’s BS and at this point if they said “kym, the sky is blue, grass is green, and the moon most certainly is not made from green cheese”, I’d never believe them.
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I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with this crap. So maybe “up to my eyeballs” on a 5 ft. 3 in. tall person isn’t exactly monumental, but when you get enough people up to their eyeballs sick of this, then we become a force for change.
BP is about as right-for-the-job as a murderer is right for the job of prosecuting his own case. I know our government doesn’t have the resources to clean this oil mess up (surprise - that’s what happens when we elect in idiots who cut taxes and call it a “free market” economy) but we DO have the resources to watch the BP sociopaths like the greedy little turd blossoms they are.
Get involved - help the rest of us work to pull the cork out of our own government’s ass.
2 responses so far
Ever since Exxon got a free pass on the Exxon Valdez disaster, oil companies simply haven’t kept up with the necessary technology to stop a leak quickly. Just as it was inevitable that a super tanker was bound to run up on a reef sooner or later, so was the inevitabilty of a a major deep water well blowout. A Pemex offshore well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico 10 years ago similarly, but in shallower water, and it took a year to stop.
BP might have drilled on the cheap and dirty because of slack regulations, but failing to forsee and provide means for a quick capping is costing them (and all of us) dearly now. The one lesson from Exxon Valdez was the next outfit wasn’t going to get off easy, and BP should have understood that from the beginning.
Unfortunately, it’s the oil companies who understand the technology best in regards to what it takes, but none of them have developed adequate ways of stopping blowouts like this, when there are many wells as deep, scattered all over the world. For them all, it’s like inventing the moon vehicles in weeks, not years, as the deep waters are a lot like space when it comes to unknowns.
I have a hard time seeing them as greedy. The world, and especially the US demands oil, and the developing once 3rd world countries like China are simply wanting the same lifestyle we have had for 50 years. BP is simply filling a strong demand that wasn’t cured here by $4.00 gasoline. All the oil companies are doing the same. If BP didn’t go after the most productive fields, we would bitch about the price of gasoline harder, and we all know it’s going to go only upward.
What’s our government to do? Most politicians don’t know diddley-squat about the technology of oil retrieval, and I know I don’t know hardly a thing about it… I’ll bet you don’t, either. The one thing the govt. could have done was make this spill a national call to arms and devote all the civilian and military equipment and expertise it could muster to this as a fight for survival.
But with 2 wars going on, a public in pain from bad economic times, and without any know-how on the problem, that call to arms didn’t happen. We slacked off on Katrina, and everyone knew that one was inevitable and could have been prevented, but we lacked the will to do the right thing before the hurricane hit. Maybe we are still weary or indifferent after that disaster. But even if we aren’t, there is very little that can be done all at once, obviously. Nobody knows enough about a disaster like this yet.
You can bet the next well drilled won’t be anything as lax as this one was. And you can count on the price of gasoline hitting $5.00 sometime in the next 12 months, too.
Well said, boomer. I like it that Kevin Costner, whose “Waterworld” employed clever usage of the Exxon Valdez, is deploying 32 of his oil/water separating units with BP…more than 200 gallons of liquid can be processed EVERY MINUTE.
I’m really hoping he is right about their efficacy. The units were actually conceived by someone at the INL, and his company took the rights to them, and he’s been fighting to get them in use for almost 20 years.
I haven’t been around, and too busy to read the PR, but I’m hoping they wrote about him and those units recently…