Oil Spill

[lordkenmore]

Another site. This one with various boycott BP materials. My favorite is a shirt that has the BP logo. Beneath, it says "Beyond Pollution." How true!

http://www.zazzle.com/boycott_bp_bumper_sticker-128865286275580320

 

[panthera]

best of all

is how all the rethuglicans and teabaggers are now screaming for Obama to take this over and the gubernmint to fix it.

Profit is private, risk is socialized. That's the motto of the conservatives.

Hypocrites.

 

[lordkenmore]

"best of all is how all the rethuglicans and teabaggers are now screaming for Obama to take this over and the gubernmint to fix it."

No kidding. I don't pay much attention to the conservatives, but even I have noticed by osmosis that there is whining about the problems with Obama's performance with this disaster. Yet these same people will get just as angry--even more angry--if he pushes for stricter regulations, bans of off shore drilling, or anything else to prevent this sort of disaster in the future.

 

[hunter]

Actually...

....they're just arguing the way the left did after Katrina.

Political ploy.

Remember folks they are all thugs. Panethera you're the one who mentions the 'gay atm' all the time --

At this point this has to get fixed...hopefully it can be. A nuke would fix it but the consequences would be drastic.

 

[cleanteamofny]

Boycotting does not work in this case.....
Public don't buy but BP will sell to other major companies and still make a profit. So it's a waste of time. If you want it to be successful, ALL OIL COMPANIES must be boycotted to be effective. Now in the long run guess who really looses?
The consumers......

 

[sudsmaster]

Just a little perspective...

While the BP spill is the biggest in US history, so far it's not the biggest in the Gulf of Mexico.

That honor goes to a Mexican off-shore oil well that leaked some 140 million gallons in 1979.

I figure the BP spill will probably equal or exceed that mark, eventually, if all the various capping strategies don't work.

Given that history of gulf underwater oil well leaks, how on earth did the Feds figure allowing companies like BP to bypass various safety devices and procedures was OK?

Even Alan Greenspan admits he was wrong, when he supposed that the finance industry and the markets were self-regulating and wouldn't cause any disasters because it would hurt their future. The same applies to industries like off-shore oil well drilling.

I figure this disaster has moved us 10 years closer to banning the internal combustion engine for most consumer vehicles, in favor of an electric car that is recharged from power generated from renewable resources as well as nuclear.

It is more or less inevitable.

 

[tolivac]

Even if we were to ban engine powered vehicles-we still need oil-its in so many products around us and ON us.Lets see,plastics(that includes plastics made into fibers to make cloth)paints,food colorings,lubrication oil for other devices,dyes for food and fibers,the list goes on Don't think we will EVER get away from our dependence on oil and its products-and there have been other ship oil spills besides the Valdez-they aren't publicised much anymore.Think its better to risk from the drilling than the shipping.And yes---some powerplants burn heavy fuel oil.There is one in the Wash DC area.And how are we going to power ships that move goods across the ocean?Guess nuclear reactors-but many folks don't like the idea of reactors moving around on the ocean-except those used by the Navy.