Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Just seeing what people think of the down-played environmental disaster and possibly the absurd amount of wealth in the oil companies. (Enough to pay off the world debt btw).

This topic should have been made a long time ago, it’s completely rediculous, they should have solutions in place in case of an accident like this, instead of floundering around for weeks before they figure out how do deal with it properly.

Oil for the fishes and the deep blue sea
Oil for you and me

(with apologies to Three Dog Night)

I find it absurd that they had to put up a blog for cleanup suggestions and how BP originally stated that they couldn’t afford to fix the problem, which at least they were called out on citing Multi-trillion dollar profits on a quarterly basis.

Mmmm love me some poison.

I’m glad they finally did figure out how to stop it from flowing into the sea, (they’ve essentially put a tube in place to pull in all the oil from the pipe that burst), but they’ye just burning off all the still useable oil that they are drawing from the pipe, another thing horrible for the environment.

Oh and the dispursents have been failing and are extremely toxic too. They discovered the pipe has multiple leaks and as a result is still spilling 70,000 barrels of oil a day, contrary to BPs suggestion of 5,000. Tar balls have been found by Key West Florida now and the second it gets in the Gulf Stream it will travel up the Eastern coastline.

I’d like to know what caused the blast in the first place! It sounds like sabotage to me!

Basically the current solutions aren’t working and fortunately BP is failing to a (certain degree) at covering it up.

Admittedly the blast itself was pretty much unavoidable, a methane bubble got caught with the oil and exploded. Failsafes do exist for this, but apparently the technology just isn’t as good as we though. They had no way of knowing this. The follow up is where they really fucked up since they could have and should have done something sooner.

Stupity, short cuts and anything to make a quick buck were the causes. Multiple elements weren’t in place and even failed months beforehand, they were known about and then neglected and never fixed. Also the Loch Ness Monster adapted to the ocean and lit up a cigar.

@Sean: Congrats! You’re almost as sarcastic as I am!

I try to maintain a healthy level of insanity.

DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!!

Sarcasm =/=(<>,!=,etc) Insanity

Not that you AREN’T insane, I just don’t like people mistaking sarcasm for insanity. After all, sarcasm is intentional!

Oh I know, but being serious is sooooo much fun.

Not to say that this isn’t horrible, but there are far worse things going on that are downplayed so much that you probably don’t even know they happen.

Like algae blooms caused by chemical fertilizers that cause eutrophication over miles of estuary. Agriculture is the biggest polluter, and the biggest user of energy and water. (In the US that is)

Yep, there are plenty of fun-filled destructive BS events throughout the world, but obviously those will work themselves out……Oh the Earth destroyed humanity, what a shock.

Sorry CBM, I already knew that one. It is sad to hear how all the algae are killing off the populations of other animals, but you need to try something more obscure.

Alright then Ninja, did you know that a two stroke engine puts out more pollution in one hour then 200 cars?

Think about that next time you mow your lawn.

Cutting grass lets out natural pollutant gases that are stored within the grass itself.

@CBM: Yep, because cars are subject to more regulations, have better fuel economy, and are more efficient during operation. Try again again.

And if you’ve seen my lawn, you would know that their is a very good reason I DON’T mow it….

WALKER THE KILLER WEED!!!!!

…no, not that weed. he’s a giant man-eating venus-flytrap thingy. Nobody knows for sure since he keeps eating the scientists sent to investigate….

Okay, did you know that most of the corn that is grown in the US is inedible to humans?

I hear talk of permantetly banning any future drilling here in CA

Yes We Can produce mediocre changes that in many cases make things worse. What a wonderful world…..

So are you saying Obama is the new Jimmy Carter? =/

I…had hope for him, you know? It felt good.

I still have hope for him on some level, but the honeymoon’s definitely over, that’s for sure.

I started off skeptical because I knew he was going to toss NASA, which was one of the few profit making edges that gave us the technology we had today and is still more advanced than other space programs. For every dollar put in you get 7 back, so 1 billion becomes 7 billion. I still had some faith in the dude, but the way congress, the senate, pussyfoots around MAJOR devastating problems drives me insane and then the president doesn’t enforce his ability to overule to move things along. Nowadays everything is done Half-Assed in the hopes that things will turn out for the best. They don’t and those suffering the most end up picking up the slack or smothering under it.

My problem is that I don’t trust the government any more than I trust the Oil Companies.


Seriously, which one has the worst track record?!?

i’m sorry for being the idiot here…
but,can someone explain to me what were talking about ?
i haven’t been keeping up with U.S.A politics recently.

@ Oddguy: Here’s the score - there was a major oil spill off the Texas coast and no one is taking the initiative to fix it and the government, now under scrutiny, admits it borked the enforcement of regulations that should have prevented it.

Well the oil companies pay off the government and the government is made up of only those in the wealthiest class, who continually give themselves tax cuts and don’t pay for medical insurance and literally feed off of and rape everyone up the ass who can barely get by, so I don’t blame you for your rightful distrust.

Except for the millionaires who run (insert political party here). Because of their apparent ideologies, I can trust them not to have a conflict of interest, yes?

Potent sarcasm bro.

It’s weird how the great depression pushed the US political scales the the left, but this recession is pushing people to the right.

What’s up with that?

The right is paying out the ass to paint the left as the bad guys, because the right are the bad guys, not all, but those stereotypically affilliated.

@Hmmmmm has a point. If people like the tea party group knew what was up, the right would be the ones receiving death threats.

So the right has the better PR department this year the way the left had the better PR department in ‘08. Both sides are just infectious diseases with no obligation to campaign promises and layer-upon-layer of conflicted interests.

Race and gender and sexual orientation aside, I’d rather see a poor man or woman elected to office than any of the above.

If these are our political parties, I’d hate to see what our political hangovers are like!

@Ninja: If you happen to be knowledgeable in the history of U.S. politics (as I just so happen to be) you know that the hangovers are a real doozy.

Everybody join the DTS party! (DTS=decline to state, independent, no party whatsoever). The Tea Party actually gaining power is what scares me.

Must you take the fun out of everything, (nameless)? I am pretty well-versed in American History and I know what can and has happened. I JUST WANTED TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD WITH A BAD PUN!!!! THAT”S ALL!!!!

Nades for all!

Eats nade…spicy meatball, passess another on.

@Ninja: Sorry about that, Political Science major, I tend to get caught up in it all…

But that would be too easy.

I voted for Voldemort in ‘08.

Ah man, I was routing for Him too. He might have won if he hadn’t killed everyone who approached/asked him a question.