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A coworker of mine, who is a big fan of Rush and the Drill Baby Drill movement, told me he didn't really care what happened, doesn't affect him at all. It was one of those rare moments in life where I felt knocking some sense into someone.
You see outrage over taxes, over abortion, over illegal immigration, over the Iraq War, over health care, but no protests or public displays of anger regarding the oil spill. IMO the oil spill is just as pressing, if not more than any of those other issues. I'm dumbfounded.
I think there is a chance that many people have been doing some research about this thing and finding out that the media has led us down the primrose path during the whole thing. Do some searching on your favorite search engine about the Gulf oil spill of 1979.
Because the vast majority of the country is not feeling the pain.
Now if gas suddenly jumped up 2 dollars a gallon becuase of it, you would get your riots. We Americans are pretty much all a bunch of self-absorbed SOBs
When gas was $5/gallon there weren't any riots so I don't think that threshold is going to induce any mass rioting now...
I have to wander what channels the OP watches. its seems this time there is more finger pointing than action really. Its all about the politics more and more it seems ;instead of working on actually stopping the damage coming.Seems we are spending more time pointing fingers and investigating cause than fixing the problem. Crazy world now days;people think the sqeaking wheel theory works on anything.
one deadline that needs to be done is start working on the relief well TODAY. all else is really secondary to that.
When this same thing happened to a Mexican company in 1979 there was no 24/7 media competition and we didn't really hear anything about that one. They drilled two relief wells and took 9 months to stop it. That one let 138 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. Now it seems to me that the region recovered from that one and may well do so from this one.
I have a thread about BP agreeing to pay for the clean up and there is another thread by a man who helped clean up after Exxon Valdez. There is some good reading on both threads. Have you seen either of them? More people need to see them and maybe quiet down and wait for the investigation that will take place about 2 weeks from now. I can't believe that it hasn't been done yet but it hasn't.
When gas was $5/gallon there weren't any riots so I don't think that threshold is going to induce any mass rioting now...
I don't know.. now that "Lost" is over and that annoying English guy that everyone loved to hate is off "American Idol" people might just decide to go break things this time around since there isn't anything good to watch on TV. It could be that "tipping point" doomers are so fond of talking about.
You see outrage over taxes, over abortion, over illegal immigration, over the Iraq War, over health care, but no protests or public displays of anger regarding the oil spill. IMO the oil spill is just as pressing, if not more than any of those other issues. I'm dumbfounded.
That's just it. I think people are dumbfounded, stunned, in shock and still grasping at what this will do to the envionrment OR maybe they are just going on like nothing happened, following the lead of hussein obama.
...they are just going on like nothing happened, following the lead of hussein obama.
Or in other words, letting the experts handle it. In this case, that would be the oil companies - fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you want to look at it.
You see outrage over taxes, over abortion, over illegal immigration, over the Iraq War, over health care, but no protests or public displays of anger regarding the oil spill. IMO the oil spill is just as pressing, if not more than any of those other issues. I'm dumbfounded.
Sorry, I disagree. The trillion dollars and thousands of American lives lost, as well as the tens of thousands maimed or disabled in the middle east, easily achieves more importance--yet there is also no protest over that.
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