BP oil spill
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- mikotondria30
The assumes that BP would be obligated by law to provide an option that might be less profitable for its shareholders. Us, the voting public, with our representatives crafting laws on our behalf for our consensual benefit should be using the system to legislate BP into providing electric cars - oh - but it seems that BP have somehow cut us off, and are using the vast profits we generate for them to influence the laws so that they can continue to put profits over what we all truly need.
That kinda sucks.
It's almost as if the 40% of our income we give to the corporations is more powerful than the 20% we pay to the government.. How can that be the case ?
- DrBombay0
Has anyone gone solar at home? I am interested in looking into this soon. The price of the panels have come down dramatically in recent years.
- georgesIII0
too tired to think in english right now but iìll try,
let say most of the 20 first countries are either island or countries that have severe weather that oscillate between the extreme hot to extremely cold,
es: singapour, kuwait, qatar, etc are countries that consume more energy because the weather is too warm to keep anything fresh so they must run air con constantly (jk, but it is kinda true) and other appliances to keep it cool. My first summer in seoul, I almost died because of how warm and humid it was.you have the islands who depend mostly on imported goods thus they will necessarily consume more energy, they're not connected to any other land and most them depend on a heavy amount of gas/oil to have a decent lifestyle. e.g virgin island, antilles, faroe island, iceland, etc
another example is canada and groenland, winter can last up to 8 month is some parts and you need to keep warm, you know if you want to survive.
now we have Luxembourg, hmmmm they're freaking rich, they just don't give a damm :)
to really evaluate the oil consumption, we should see in what mode the oil imported or produced is used not just the consumption pro capita.
and example is virgin island, don't you think their tourism industry pushes their consumption way high?
http://www.un.org/special-rep/oh…- sorry for the broken english
it is almost 2 am I'm going to bedgeorgesIII
- sorry for the broken english
- moth0
Probably still not as polluting as Americas CO2 emissions over the same period. The difference here is that you can see it and that somehow makes it a bigger problem.
- CALLES0
- ha!ukit
- Not sure who that is but I see the resemblance.CygnusZero4
- he's the actor who played gollum in lord of the ringpieces.airey
- Oh wow, he does look like gollum.CygnusZero4
- georgesIII0
a better sorted list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
- benfal990
they sprayed so much disolvent in the ocean. So we can multiply the catastrophe x2.
- joeth0
Why We Should All Be Paying More at the Pump
http://www.treehugger.com/files/…"The BP spill is going to cost fishermen, it's going to cost the gulf's ecosystem, and it's going to cost the region's tourism industry. But that cost won't be paid by the people who wanted that oil for their cars. It'll fall on taxpayers, on Gulf Coast residents who need new jobs, on the poisoned wildlife on the seafloor."
- ukit0
I think the basic issue is that a capitalist system by definition should solve this, right? Because if alternative fuels are a better option, the market should provide built in incentive to make the shift. But it can't, because the problem is a long term one and doesn't provide immediate gains.
In a way it's the same problem that was there with the financial system...it should have been clear the system was not tenable but companies pursued it anyway because it offered short term profits
- jbasnight0
BP is apparently drilling a well to intercept the well that's spewing oil into the gulf. Estimated completion: 3 months!
- dMullins0
^ A discussion that has been on-going for two decades. It's just starting to really get weight behind it in the last few years, but I have my doubts that this is really going to be the catalyst.
- PonyBoy0
Tar balls from Gulf oil spill turn up in Texas
—AP
http://www.google.com/hostednews…
- ukit0
Imagine a war between America and Britain today.
- ukit0
Just last year in fact...BP cut 25% of its entire Solar Energy division
http://www.guardian.co.uk/enviro…
So much for that
- benfal990
OMG!
LIVE under the sea:
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_…Its all breaking lose!
- ukit0
haha...is this really true? I wouldn't rate Prison Planet very highly as a news source but maybe it's corroborated elsewhere.
"A crew member who rescued burning workers on the rig told Houston attorney Tony Buzbee of a conversation between Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell and someone in Houston.
According to the witness, Harrell was screaming, “Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”
- some regard it as more truth than the controlled mediawhatsup
- ukit0
Yeah actually I agree with the overall point you're making. It's the overlying structural and geographic issues that are behind a lot of these differences.
Canada for instance, is cold like you said, but it's also much more spread out than most countries, so you gotta think they spend a lot more on transport costs in terms of oil. But that's also true of the U.S., which is much less densely populated than most of Europe, also we don't have the nice public transport you see in many European countries.
All I was saying is that looking at that original chart you might get the idea that the U.S. alone is bleeding the world's oil dry when that's far from the case. They should have put Europe in there which would have been a close second to the U.S. and ahead of China. It's hard to get exact stats b/c everyone uses different measurements, but going off the government's official numbers here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publ…
U.S. = 19.5 million barrels of oil/ day
EU = 14.3 million barrels/ dayOf course, that's only EU, if you add in the rest of Europe (Norway, Switzerland, etc), there's about another 2 million/ day. So I guess no matter how you slice it Europe is better and more efficient than U.S. and Canada - but not by such a massive amount.
- points taken,
* takes down drgss's poster "die america die"georgesIII - Don't get me wrong, the situation is still pretty bad. You go out to American suburbs, and until recently anyway, everyone at least had two cars, one of which was probably an SUV.ukit
- least had two cars, one of which was probably an SUV.ukit
- points taken,