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By lechacal on June 4, 2010 10:59 AM
Pete, you cannot separate your own consumption of oil from the consequences of oil exploration. Stop using oil and then you will be on moral high ground. This spill is your fault.
OMG, that means its MY fault too. (Donatella spanking herself).
Arkady, no one, including benson, is arguing that BP didn’t cut corners and isn’t to blame.
What benson says about the whole energy policy IS correct. Deep water drilling is pursued because shallow water is disallowed. yet shallow water drilling is inherently less risky. This issue is above and beyond BP’s culpability.
“This spill is your fault.” – I take full responsibility.
Now can I have 1% of all oil company profits for last 5 years?
I do agree that our appetite for cheap energy is part of the problem….but so I feel more so is the attitude that want less guvment, government can’t do anything right, get them out of our lives, no new taxes (how is fed going to have the materials and manpower to protect the gulf coast from the mishaps of private corporation ineptitude),
too much regulation and red tape, etc.
Also big oil itself has (until very recently) tried to head off alternative energy development and at same time got itself wonderful tax breaks and incentives.
“And a Canadian columnist mused that the only person who still admires Hayward must be Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, because Hayward relieved him as the Most Hated Man in America”
Is your head so far up your rectum that you don’t see that if BP had taken proper steps the entire incident wouldn’t’ve happened? That the Feds can’t put diapers around the entire coast? That they were lied to about the extent of the damage?
And as to platitudes, would your sainted Jesuits have accepted “at this point in time”? I don’t *think* so.
“no one forces anyone to drill anywhere. The corporation decided it wanted to drill there to make more money.”
Completely disingenuous response. Folks want oil at a certain price, to enjoy their standard of living (cars, second homes, airline vacations etc.). They place constraints on where this oil can be extracted from, and then get pissed off when the downside of such policies is revealed.
DeLepp has it exactly right. There is a price to be paid for any endeavor. You’re looking at it. Very convenient to blame BP, as folks prepare to drive off for the weekend.
By lechacal on June 4, 2010 10:59 AM
Pete, you cannot separate your own consumption of oil from the consequences of oil exploration. Stop using oil and then you will be on moral high ground. This spill is your fault.
OMG, that means its MY fault too. (Donatella spanking herself).
Back to work.
Stomach-turning photos show animals caught in oil spill
http://tinyurl.com/2dm953a
Arkady, no one, including benson, is arguing that BP didn’t cut corners and isn’t to blame.
What benson says about the whole energy policy IS correct. Deep water drilling is pursued because shallow water is disallowed. yet shallow water drilling is inherently less risky. This issue is above and beyond BP’s culpability.
“This spill is your fault.” – I take full responsibility.
Now can I have 1% of all oil company profits for last 5 years?
I do agree that our appetite for cheap energy is part of the problem….but so I feel more so is the attitude that want less guvment, government can’t do anything right, get them out of our lives, no new taxes (how is fed going to have the materials and manpower to protect the gulf coast from the mishaps of private corporation ineptitude),
too much regulation and red tape, etc.
Also big oil itself has (until very recently) tried to head off alternative energy development and at same time got itself wonderful tax breaks and incentives.
From ENY’s article…
“And a Canadian columnist mused that the only person who still admires Hayward must be Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, because Hayward relieved him as the Most Hated Man in America”
LOL!!!!!!!!
Is your head so far up your rectum that you don’t see that if BP had taken proper steps the entire incident wouldn’t’ve happened? That the Feds can’t put diapers around the entire coast? That they were lied to about the extent of the damage?
And as to platitudes, would your sainted Jesuits have accepted “at this point in time”? I don’t *think* so.
BHB called.
They said you guys need to mellow out.
“no one forces anyone to drill anywhere. The corporation decided it wanted to drill there to make more money.”
Completely disingenuous response. Folks want oil at a certain price, to enjoy their standard of living (cars, second homes, airline vacations etc.). They place constraints on where this oil can be extracted from, and then get pissed off when the downside of such policies is revealed.
DeLepp has it exactly right. There is a price to be paid for any endeavor. You’re looking at it. Very convenient to blame BP, as folks prepare to drive off for the weekend.
Just last week BP’s carelessness resulted in another oil spill, this one along the Alaskan pipeline.
http://tinyurl.com/26ampup