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Boston Globe l The Big Picture - Caught in the oil (pg. 4)
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| Lews |
washley don't talk about economics like you know what you're talking about, thanks.
In other news:
| quote: | | Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives. |
Sarah Palin |
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| DOOMBOT |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
Personally I don't see this as totally BP's "fault".
I think that the first few days was BP's fault.
the other 30+ days were the US governments "fault" for not stepping in and using their resources to save their ocean. Once it went outside the near vacinity the US government and military should of had a contigency plan developed for this type of thing. Even a 3 billion dollar damage is 0.025% and the total costs could add up to 0.1% of the US anual economy. (1 one thousands of the us annual economy.) That meaning 1000 disaster like this would take up more funds than the whole of the US economy.
Point is thought the oil leak is 2 to 5 times the size of the exon valdez spill - the exon cleanup alone cost 2.5 billion. So the overall cost could be dramatic. "could be". BP is only a 40 or so billion dollar company.
This is "dim" though in that the real costs are much much more - and most people won't even realize it, but this was VERY bad. Like katrina the only real failure was the US governments incapacity or unwillingness to fix this quick. |
Right. The government and its legions of Obamabots should have swooped in and instantly stopped this mess. |
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| chimera66 |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
they look like chocolate treats mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
You're an idiot. BP won't go out of business because of this, even if they probably should.
BP, Sarah Palin, all the people who have said and are still saying drill, baby, drill. You should all be down in the gulf cleaning this disaster up. Disgusting. |
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Btw I support this post
To the OP: I am disappoint |
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| idoru |
| Honestly, there's some genuine truth to both sides of the Doombot vs. Hippies argument. No point in bickering when neither side is the right side. The fact of the matter is that both sides need to meet in some sort of a grey area. |
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| jester |
Pictures like that break my heart :(
It will be impossible to find something to replace oil. Seeing oil can be used for so many things.
If we could find a way to reduce the need for so much oil it be much better, but it would take decades maybe even a century for that to fall through.
I do not know whats worse contamination of land with oil or the ocean. Both are pretty bad.
All we can do is learn from this mistake and just hope it never happens again. |
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| jester |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Honestly, there's some genuine truth to both sides of the Doombot vs. Hippies argument. No point in bickering when neither side is the right side. The fact of the matter is that both sides need to meet in some sort of a grey area. |
How can they meet in a grey area, when they believe there is no grey area lol |
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| idoru |
| Just sayin'. I agree with a lot of the points that both sides make. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by weymouth
birds are dumb |
At least they're not ing the place up. Unlike these incredibly 'smart' human folks, huh? |
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| FuzzQi |
Have you got a hi-res of your sig somewhere? It looks badass! |
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