Inventor wrote:
No apology here.
Our fisheries are a mess, no one wants to buy Gulf fish, lost 80% of oysters, and all the spawn, same for the crabs. Deep water reefs have died, and we hardly know how they live, but they are important.
Maybe it will come back in a decade, or hundreds of years. .
Our other industry is tourism, A pattern of activity that once changed, stays changed,
Limited payout, with a lot going to governments for lost taxes, not the people who suffered the loss.
The hired hands still work for the boss. It was not the cement Haliburton used, it was twenty two plugs being cut to seven.
Still nothing about the blowout preventer that had not gotten it's monthly test in sixteen months, and why Minerals Management failed to do it's job.
Everything BP touches seems to blow up. Rigs, Refineries, Pipelines, a clear pattern of making the whole industry look bad.
They may have paid the bribe and bought the whitewash, but we do not believe Congress, we just fired a bunch, and plan on suing the rest.
That rig with 700,000 gallons of diesel is still laying a mile down in the Gulf. The damage is not over.
A million barrels of oil does not just vanish,
The hearing was a fix on the fine, it is much higher where negliagence is proven. Cut the fine and we will up the donations.
Buying whores in Washington is another offence.
Louisiana has just sued the Corp of Engineers over the Kartina damage. They were always held above the law, but not in cases of shear stupitity.
Congress carries no weight, that was a press conferance.
Wait till it gets to Court, where BS leads directly to prison.
Minerals Management, and their employer, are going to be put on the stand and made to tell the truth.
Why did you inspect all other rigs once a month, but not the one that blew up? For sixteen months?
Was it because the blowout preventer was known to be dead for sixteen months?
So you believe your glorious leaders when they say it WAS "British Petroleum" that f****d the gulf, but you DON'T believe them when they admit it wasn't? Face it, Yank crews and yank contractors screwed up. I wager that if an American company had hired British contractors for a job and it went wrong their hearts wouldn't beat once before they crucified them, and threw the remains to the wolves. Still, its been evident for a long time that its one rule for America and a different rule for everyone else.
Still waiting on this apology, Mr Obama.
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"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart,
that you can't take part" [Mario Savo, 1964]
09 Nov 2010, 12:57 pm
