BP oil spill
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I'm getting pretty fucking sick of the US government bitching about this spill and trying to pretend it's nothing to do with them. This from a country that uses 25% of the world's oil resources for only 5% of the world's population (apparently). Why were they drilling there in the first place? If the yanks weren't so hooked on oil they wouldn't be allowing this kind of drilling or would regulate it properly.
I agree BP have cut corners left right and centre, and have not dealt with the resulting mess at all well - the overuse of highly toxic dispersal chemicals is totally shocking. But all the furore from the US (rightly worried about the oil that's going to kill livelihoods, marine life and christ knows what else) is like a junkie complaining about the mess caused by the people who make his drugs.
Oil companies have been making a bigger mess of the Nigerian coast for a long time but I don't hear the US moaning about that (or about the pollution of the Indian Ocean from toxic waste dumping off the coast of Somalia).
just saying
- Nigeria and the indian ocean are not part of america and therefore there is no reason to worry about them.flashbender
- how much oil we use has nothing to do with neglect of procedure. the pansy british BP execs need to pay up for destroying an area known for producing a significant percentage of the worlds seafood.dirtydesign
- destroying an area known for producing a good percentage of the worlds seafood.dirtydesign
- it has everything to do with neglect of procedure. corners are cut to get you your drug.hans_glib
- ...as cheap as possible so you can continue to waste precious resource.hans_glib
- i agree BP should clean the mess up, but the US Govt should stop flag-wavinghans_glib
- and banks deserve to get robbed because they hold and distribute moneydirtydesign
- saudi arabia should make a public lolBonSeff