BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez (expenses, area)

[NomadicBear]

The worst part about this is that BP is spraying a chemical dispersant which is believed to be cancer causing and has been asked to stop, but continues doing so anyway. What the dispersant has done is made the oil come on shore underneath the water instead of on top, making it much harder to clean up, and completely devastating the oyster beds which might have been spared somewhat had they let it come ashore naturally. Now, someone is reporting on CNN that BP owns 20% of the stock in the company which makes the chemical.

[tigerfan3]

What frustrates me the most is how all these politicians want to hang BP for this. While I agree that BP should be hung, howzabout all these law makers who allowed them to do what ever they wanted with no oversight, no regulation, and no emergency plan? If you drill offshore in Cananda you have to have an emergency plan, and a detailed one at that. They make these companies even tell exactly what ships will show up in the advent of a disaster. But here in the US, after some 30 odd years of being told how great deregulation was, the emergency plan turned out to be a joke. Something that talked about wildlife that hadn't ever lived in the gulf. Big business and Washington are in bed with each other. An effective federal gov't would have demanded safety back ups and emergency planning.

[Captain Crunch]

They will get to those government employees that turned a blind-eye or took payoffs...

Those are all people Bush put in place by-the-way...in his 8 years of blunders

[tigerfan3]

All Bush people? Get real. This whole deregulation/let big business do what it wants to thing has been going on for about 30 years now and both parties are responsible. Sure, maybe the republicans a tiny bit more--or maybe they are just more up front about it.

Turns out government SHOULD have a role in our lives.

[Captain Crunch]

Yep....under George "The Smirking Chimp" Bush , like Chris Oynes who bailed out as head of MMS the Monday after the Deepwater Horizon explosion

Google him...he was very in-bed-with big oil per Bush & Cheney instructions

He is not immune from criminal prosecution....lets hope it gets to that


"During his tenure at the Gulf regional office in Louisiana for the MMS, Chris Oynes played a central role in an offshore leasing foul-up that cost taxpayers an estimated $10 billion in lost revenue. The Interior Department's inspector general called the matter "a jaw-dropping example of bureaucratic bungling." Despite that, the agency's then-director promoted Mr. Oynes in 2007 to associate director for the offshore program.

[Captain Crunch]

[warptman]

BP is calling everyone "little people" now, they are one f'd up corporation.

[warptman]

hayward isn't even answering questions!

[warptman]

They need to send him back to England and never return to the states...

[RedJacket]

Maintaining a military presence in another Gulf is costing taxpayers over $50 billion dollars a year. But, the Gulf of Mexico gets nothing -- not even a Hoover Vacuum Cleaner.

Rename the Gulf of Mexico the Persian Gulf and watch the government fall all over itself getting resources down there.