Spill Baby Spill - Who should really pay for this Disaster???

[jhale667]

Sure I did...

There are people out there who would like nothing more than a good reason to shut down off shore drilling...

For reasons OTHER than getting us off the foreign oil teat? A xenophobe like you has to be for that, right?


And again, NO ONE wants to see the coastlines F*ed up, that's just stupid.

[Nickdfresh]

Well, so far it isn't the disaster the oil haters are hoping for...

Yeah, because that makes a fuck-lot-of-sense....

Enjoy the dire economic consequences from this spill from the catastrophic blow to the seafood industry to the sludge ridden shore line tourists are sure to flee from...

[ELVIS]

Enjoy the dire economic consequences from this spill from the catastrophic blow to the seafood industry to the sludge ridden shore line tourists are sure to flee from...

Whatever dude...

[jhale667]

Whatever dude...

Great answer from the guy who's about to have an oil slick in his backyard...

[Blaze]

First of all, BP's liability is limited to 75M under a 1990 law...

Secondly, Obama claimed a "all hands on deck approach since day one." Where are they ??

Thirdly, BP seems to have a plan and they are implementing it. I hope they succeed alone, without federal government intervention...

And finally, the "disaster" that you hear on the talking head shows seems to be quite exaggerated based on my local standpoint...

Dead jellyfish washing ashore along Mississippi Gulf coast
By John Kelly
May 03, 2010, 11:42AM

Ryan Moore / Hattiesburg American via AP

A crew member marks a dead fish that has washed ashore in Pass Christian, Miss., Monday. Crews are combing the beaches marking dead sea life and gathering any trash that is on the beach.

The head of the National Wildlife Federation says he has seen a huge number of dead jellyfish along the beach on an island at the southern end of the Mississippi.
Larry Schweiger says his team will go back out Monday to take tissue samples to see if the oil spill caused their deaths.
Schweiger says it's not uncommon to see jellyfish floating dead during high winds, but the number of dead found so far is beyond normal.
At least 20 sea turtles have been found dead over the weekend along a 30-mile stretch of Mississippi beaches but wildlife officials can't say with certainty the turtles died as a result of the oil spill. They won't know more until necropsies are performed on Monday.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/dead_jellyfish_washing_ashore.html

[ELVIS]

I don't think we are...

Between BP, the Louisiana government, Bobby Jindal and the volunteers, I think they are gonna handle it well...

[ELVIS]

Not the jellyfish!!!

[jhale667]

Not the jellyfish!!!

Your level of denial is pretty astounding, dude.

[Igosplut]

I do know that this oil spill is the hot topic amongst commercial fisherman up here. Many talk of the possibility of oil making it this far (if it gets around Florida) and the impact of the industry being shut down. They can imagine the dire impact that it's going to have for the Gulf fisherman, the feds want nothing more than to shut the little guys out of the industry and if they can do it this way all the better..

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Beer has not doubled in the last 10 years.

IF smokes have, it's because of taxes.

But a 6 pack of good beer was $6-7 dollars, now it's $7-9

Shitty Coors was probably $4 a sixer, now probably $5.

Hardly DOUBLED.

and part of oil's rise in price has to be due to increased taxes as well, right?

[PETE'S BROTHER]

and part of oil's rise in price has to be due to increased taxes as well, right?

the rise in gasoline prices, sorry.

[FORD]

Well, so far it isn't the disaster the oil haters are hoping for...

Just a reminder for Nurse Presley, so he might remember how GOD feels about shit like this......

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. - Revelation 11:18

What would Jesus do, Gregory?

[LoungeMachine]

and part of oil's rise in price has to be due to increased taxes as well, right?

No.

Gas, yes.

Not barrels of crude

[ELVIS]

What would Jesus do, Gregory?

Help clean up the mess and help make sure it doesn't happen again in the future...

[FORD]

More like the manipulation of Wall $treet criminal speculation than taxes. The president of Citibank (which is partially owned by the Saudis, no less) owns his own goddamn oil tankers, which he uses as his own "strategic reserve" to fuck with the prices.