BP oil spill
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- DrBombay0
They are just testing the cap, it ain't over.
- dMullins0
Okay then, I guess I didn't think this through.
- lolRamanisky2
- still a lot of little things like this would HELPmegE
- jaylarson0
BP buys Google, Yahoo search words to keep people away from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-…
- TheBlueOne0
@deathboy & other usual Politic thread libertarians: Sorry, if BP goes bust as a result of LEGITIMATE claims, the Free Market system you crow as naseum about has worked properly. The assets and workers will go to better operators, period. The problem with BP is that its rich dividend led many to buy it for yield and mistakenly regard it as a safe investment, when equity based on drilling in hazardous conditions is risk capital. Again RISK capital.
Of course, if you want to argue that BP should be protected from all the greedy, evil fisherman, tourist businesses, waterfront landowners and general environmental damage and cleanup costs they just incurred...why that smacks of...well it begins with a "s" and ends in an "-ism".
- im not a libertarian. i fall more along the non party affiliation.deathboy
- and a free market system doesnt exist if a gov controls it, thats simplys a fasc or social ism.deathboy
- i beleive all grievances shall be taken up with the jsutice system just hopefully done rationallydeathboy
- and i never said once they shouldnt be held accountable. but what extent and how its handle i commented on. youre an idiotdeathboy
- not very smart.deathboy
- dirtydesign0
^ thanks debbie downer
- lowimpakt0
it's all about externalities.
- something which libertarians don't comprehendlowimpakt
- yupTheBlueOne
- +1 for the left economicsxcarlx
- ukit0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/busine…
"The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."
You can't make this shit up.
- ukit0
Isn't "corporatism" the way it's currently being used just a convenient way for the right to apologize for extreme capitalism? It's great to complain about corporatism but how do you end it? People with lots of money will always have vested interests, and they will also try to influence politics, and there's very little way to really stop that at the end of the day. Other than through stuff many on the libertarian right would find abhorrent.
Of course, free markets do solve many problems, the trouble is when you have a problem whose solution has no short-term incentive, but that creates a long-term disaster. It makes perfect sense, in terms of free markets, for us to continue to lead high energy consumption, gas guzzling lives - we don't gain anything personally from ending that. Only trouble is, one day we could wake up and read that gas prices are starting to soar because the world's supply finally is running out, and the realization could come at such a late point that the consequences could be far worse than if it had started to invest in alternatives decades earlier.
- georgesIII0
I heard 11 people lost their life during the initial explosion,
anyone know who they are or if BP is thinking of helping the families if they had one?
the silence is deafening- Free gas for 1 year,
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- thanks invisible, I'm happy to see that we're still humansgeorgesIII
- Free gas for 1 year,
- lowimpakt0
brits out
- instrmntl0
Just to repost:
TOXIC: Gulf Full Length
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/toxic/to…Fishermen, because they're now out of work, are being hired by BP to clean up the spill, and to do so, have to waive their rights to any future legal settlement. None of this is being reported.
THIS IS WORTH WATCHING. Thanks.
- That part of the country is fascinating. Simple people are intriguing.mg33
- IRNlun60
Finally some good news. Tony Hayward is finally getting back to normal life. We're so sorry BP to have inconvenienced you in any way.
- georgesIII0
IT IS OFFICIAL, YOU ARE FUCKED,
(caps required)- I must be fucked, I can't make out a word he's saying. Pretty rainbows though.Orbit
- benfal990
It's better than LOST! :
Live feed:
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_…