Locals in the Way of the Oil Spill, Spill

By Saturday June 19, 2010



23 Comments
  1. Cursor_ says:
    6/19/2010 at 12:20 am

    Three words.

    Grapes of Wrath.

    Cursor_

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  2. TheCommodore says:
    6/19/2010 at 12:46 am

    The (British) Empire is striking back, eh?

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  3. jim says:
    6/19/2010 at 12:47 am

    Hey, that was Adama. Cool man.

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  4. TheMAXX says:
    6/19/2010 at 6:45 am

    21 years later the exxon valdez spill still has not been cleaned up.

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  5. chuck says:
    6/19/2010 at 7:52 am

    BP is too big to fail.

    In the same way that large banks could not go bankrupt, despite not having enough to cover their liabilities, BP will not have to face the liabilities from this spill.

    The $20 billion slush-fund means nothing. BP made $14 billion in profits last year.

    BP employs 1000s of people world-wide, including in the Gulf states. Millions of pensioners (whether they realize it or not) have their pension funds invested in BP stock.

    One possibility is that BP will need a bail-out — from the UK government. But the UK government needs a bail-out too. Where will that come from? The IMF. Where does the IMF get it’s money from? The US, China, etc.

    So US taxpayers could end up financing a bail-out of BP so it can pay it’s liabilities and fines.

    Tony Hayward will go home, get a big severance package and maybe go skiing in France.

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  6. deowll says:
    6/19/2010 at 8:37 am

    #6 Um dude you just said a year’s profits don’t matter. You want to rethink that one?

    A Major mess and I think benzine does cause cancer among other things.

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  7. poindexter says:
    6/19/2010 at 12:12 pm

    Better reporting than you’ll find on television.

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  8. Awake says:
    6/19/2010 at 3:33 pm

    What… people are surprised that BP puts on a show pretending to do a cleanup when a President (any President) is going to be in town? What rock have these people been living under?

    Regardless of the difficulty of the cleanup, it is the politics of the whole mess that is most disgusting.

    The most shocking event of this whole saga is that a US representative would be stupid and amoral enough to apologize to BP for making BP set aside money to start paying people for their lost livelihoods now, when they need it… not in some distant future when the courts have time to debate it, after all the mortgages have been foreclosed upon, after the businesses have closed because they couldn’t make it over the bad times caused by BP. Joe Barton should be denounced by every politician in the USA, removed from his post due to ethics violations, and possibly charged with treason for putting a foreign company ahead of US citizens.

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  9. polybot says:
    6/19/2010 at 5:51 pm

    I hope Obama hasn’t had to cancel any of his golf games for this, cos really it’s not his fault and it would be sooo unfair, and he shouldn’t have to do anything cos BP should be left to fix it cos they started it and I think Bush is to blame cos Bush should have been regulating big oil and anyway this drill drill drill was all Sarah Palins idea anyway so why isn’t she in jail now and Obama doesn’t even use oil cos he drives a electric car that goes on windmill power so there.

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  10. polybot says:
    6/19/2010 at 6:04 pm

    So BP puts out a few people in Hazmats on a flightover path and that’s convincing enough to fool an entire administration! No wonder you can’t beat a rag tag bunch of misfits in Afghanistan.

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  11. polybot says:
    6/19/2010 at 6:10 pm

    Americans to “stick it to big oil” by not driving their cars or flying for a month. Yep, that’ll happen.
    Either that, or they’ll spend the next 18 months whining about the price of gas.

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  12. atlassheepdog says:
    6/19/2010 at 8:43 pm

    Let’s all shakedown BP shall we? Maybe it will make us feel gooood.
    Awake has apparently been asleep for 3 or 4 decades. We don’t have to love BP but we do have to acknowledge its rights under the law.
    A shakedown is precisely what it was and Congressman Barton got it exactly right. BO was again handed a crisis and used it to appeal to the least educated, emotionally driven voting group. So once again the O administration bends over backwards to flout over 200 years of settled law. Yes it’s so chic to show those affected by the spill and their stories and sad plight. But there is always a tradeoff. The locals who buy the seafood and support the local economy also include BP employees who had no involvement in the spill and who are just as disgusted by the actions of a few BP employees. Just as culpable is the Federal Government who willfully signed off on numerous infractions and gave the go ahead for drilling to proceed. So is the government also partially financially responsible? After all, the Minerals Management Service’s job was to say drill or no drill as they assessed the situation. How about the actual drilling company? Did they cut corners without BP’s knowledge? Was the pipe defective from the supplier?
    We live in a nation that is ruled by law not by a poor excuse of a President issuing fiats to enhance his tingle factor. Not raw emotion. Not edicts issued in a fit of pique. Not at the direction of Rosie ODonnel the resident mouthpiece of the looney left who called for the president to just confiscate the funds from BP with no legal determination of culpability “even if it is socialism”. The left that required ridiculous and unnecessary limits on reasonable land or shallow sea drilling locations and forced the supply of oil to be sought in much more dangerous deep water locations. Every decision so far has been either inept or far too late to stop the damage. Some of you progressives should think about why we waited 50 days before any real cleanup started… oh that is except for BP who was the voluntary funding source since the first day and continues to be the largest collector of oil today.

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  13. Awake says:
    6/19/2010 at 9:11 pm

    #12 – An ass sheepdog -

    I love your closing statement:
    “except for BP who was the voluntary funding source since the first day”

    “Voluntary funding source” HA! They broke it, and we should be sooooooo thankful for them “volunteering” to pay for it.

    What a putz!

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  14. ECA says:
    6/19/2010 at 9:54 pm

    Can I ask you something.
    Can you Explain/describe the word BUSINESS MAN?
    Corporate Head?

    I can tell you what they are not.
    They arent the Well men.
    They are not the Builders.
    They are not the scientists.
    They are not the people that WORK on the rigs.

    They are the ones that have the MONEY to buy those that DID THE WORK, AND the work/building/discovery they have done. and use that to MAKE MONEY.

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  15. Awake says:
    6/20/2010 at 6:37 am

    ECA:

    I hope that I am not misinterpreting your #14, but unless I am, you have a pitifully limited view of life and society.

    Business Man:

    - The independent owner of the small boat that has to make monthly payments on said boat.
    - The motel owner that runs it with his own family, daughters and sons working there for free to help make ends meet.
    - The individual franchisees of restaurants, that stand behind the counter as manager.
    - The seafood middleman selling the seafood to the restaurants.
    - Anybody that owns a ‘small’ business… which means that they work at the business themselves and have everything to lose if the business goes bad.

    It is the people that are NOT in the oil industry that are being affected the most, yet we have an a**hole like Joe Barton apologizing to the big business that is putting the small business out of business, for the crime of requiring the big business to set aside some money to reimburse the small businesses.

    I just recently realized that so-called Tea-Baggers and Neo-Conservatives don’t actually love America… they love big trans-national corporations. They are the one’s seeking a “new world order” where individual rights are irrelevant, and the big corporation is king. Look at the facts. Think about it.

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  16. Micromike says:
    6/20/2010 at 11:50 am

    Walt Kelly was wrong!

    We have seen the enemy and it is the GOVERNMENT.

    Just say NO to Government, if you want things to get better.

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  17. Micromike says:
    6/20/2010 at 11:55 am

    #12 is an Oil company stooge if there ever was one. BP caused this problem by bad practice and they can’t solve it because they don’t know how. They and they alone should pay for it.

    If you, #12, want to get the dick out of your mouth long enough to pay for it yourself, you are certainly welcome. But you probably live in a big mansion thousands of miles from the spill.

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  18. ECA says:
    6/20/2010 at 12:21 pm

    15,
    you are talking small business..
    but also..
    I do not think that most of those you listed, Built the Ship/hotel/restaurant..
    Also its the person that OWNS many business’s, not 1-2.

    “they love big trans-national corporations.”

    you just started to notice this? Iv been watching this Since the 70′s.
    I also hope you discover the TRUTH about white collar and Blue collar crime. its WONDERFUL.

    16,
    MIKE.
    Umm. you are wrong.
    It is the ignorant Individual that has caused MOST of this to happen.
    WE..NOT THEM, must find the proper solution.
    Even if you consider that 2/3 of the nation did NOT vote. WE let them do this. WE did not see the PROGRAMMING of our lives, that THEY DID TO US.

    example:
    Who do you vote for?
    the person on TV ALL DAY LONG(lots of money for a job)
    Or the person that CANT AFFORD to pay for commercials EVERY DAY.

    Example2:
    How many parties are there?
    Are there only 2?
    There are 2 BIG parties. that have TONS of money to pay for There CHOICE to get a job that pays 1/10 of what they PAID for commercials.
    There are over 200 Parties.
    but the only way to get ELECTED, is to join the BIG parties. Unless you can get Over 50,000,000 to Vote for you, you dont have a chance.

    I could continue but I hope you get the Gist of this. I could go into a bunch of other tricks and Innuendo that has Shaped this country.

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  19. BubbaRay says:
    6/21/2010 at 12:41 am

    #12 said

    >>Not at the direction of Rosie ODonnel the resident mouthpiece of the looney left who called for the president to just confiscate the funds from BP with no legal determination of culpability “even if it is socialism”.

    Anyone who is stupid enough to listen to that dumb POS Rosie gets what they deserve. To quote Lex Luthor from Superman, “it’s amazing that brain can generate enough power to move those legs.”

    Just how do morans get a TV show, anyway? That sure says a lot about the collective IQ of the viewing public, doesn’t it? I’m disappointed.

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  20. duh365 says:
    6/21/2010 at 8:11 am

    The people in this region are so screwed and BP will come out of this with a small slap on the wrist. A few fines and class-action lawsuits that will be tied up in the courts forever. The only winners will be the lawyers.

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