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

[Blackflag]

The market would prevent them making a 10% straight profit.

[Seshmeister]

When you let companies get as big and powerful as BP they can unfairly corrupt the market by for example making sure compeditors have large barriers to entry. In a purer market competition would drive profits down to a smaller percentage. Plus remember that the 10% declared by a multinational is just the money that's left after they spend hundreds of millions on accountants to hide the rest.

[Kristy]

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

Wow. Just...wow.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

The first chance to choke off the flow for good should come in about a week. Engineers plan to shoot heavy mud into the crippled blowout preventer on top of the well, then permanently entomb the leak in concrete. If that doesn't work, crews also can shoot golf balls and knotted rope into the nooks and crannies of the device to plug it, Wells said

golf balls. knotted rope.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AijcDff74tomsr8fvOGD53qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlcDFoa21zBHBvcwM2OARzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawN3b3JyeXRoYXRndWw-

[Big Troubles]

US citizens will pay for it. BP will pay, then file a chapter 11, Gov. bails them out, tax payers pay the Gov. Its been the American way for quite some time.

[ELVIS]

Scientists accuse Obama over oil spill

Expert claims NOAA is guilty of a 'catastrophic failure'


Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating, with prominent oceanographers accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill’s true scope.

The scientists assert that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies have been slow to investigate the magnitude of the spill and the damage it is causing in the deep ocean.

They are especially concerned about getting a better handle on problems that may be occurring from large plumes of oil droplets that appear to be spreading beneath the ocean surface.

The scientists point out that in the month since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, the government has failed to make public a single test result on water from the deep ocean.

And the scientists say the administration has been too reluctant to demand an accurate analysis of how many gallons of oil are flowing into the sea from the gushing oil well.

“It seems baffling that we don’t know how much oil is being spilled,” Sylvia Earle, a famed oceanographer, said Wednesday on Capitol Hill. “It seems baffling that we don’t know where the oil is in the water column.”

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[hambon4lif]

I used to question this guys mental stability back when he was plowing Jane Fonda, but now my long-time suspicions have been confirmed....

....the butter has slipped off of Teddys toast.

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...how sad!

[Hardrock69]

If this happened in Communist China, they would just sentence the BP CEO to death, then take him outside he court house and put a slug in his head.

[Seshmeister]

If this happened in Communist China, they would just sentence the BP CEO to death, then take him outside he court house and put a slug in his head.

Or maybe a bit of community action...

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[Jagermeister]

I'm so pissed off about this god damn mess!

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/20006087

[FORD]

If this happened in Communist China, they would just sentence the BP CEO to death, then take him outside he court house and put a slug in his head.

Yeah, I think the Chinese actually have the right idea with that. If we started executing corporate criminals here, there would be less of them - one way or another.

At the very least, since corporations insist on calling themselves "persons" now (thanks to that travesty of a Supreme Court decision called the "Citizens United" case) then corporate "persons" should be subject to the death penalty like any other person.

So if you can't shoot the CEO of British Petroleum, at least the corporation itself should die.

[Jagermeister]

I know that shit is in deep water but you can't tell me that these fuck wads can't find a way to stop that shit sooner. That's what really pisses me off. If they don't have a way to get down to the fuckin well head then they shouldn't drill a fuckin hole in the damn sea floor. Damn it!

[PETE'S BROTHER]

According to CNN, if the "top kill" doesn't work BP will try a "junk shot": Instead of pumping mud and cement, BP would pump "material like golf balls, pieces of tire and pieces of rope into the blowout preventer."
If neither procedure works, BP will be forced to revert to ideas like a containment dome to try to stop the leak.
— Andrew Golis is the editor of the Yahoo! News blog.


complete clusterfuck.

[Hardrock69]

This is the most fucked up shit!

[Nitro Express]

Junk shot pumping mud. Sounds like a porno. LOL!

This whole fiasco is exposing corporate greed and how it's bought off the government. It's cronyism at it's worst and it's going to cost us plenty in environmental damage. A sad price to expose the collusion that has been ruining our country. There is no leadership in the Federal Government. There wasn't any during Katrina and there is none now. State and local governments waited for the feds to do something and it's just wasted time. Waiting for permission and orders while the war is lost basically.