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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
The population at large being dependent on oil products has absolutely nothing to do with BP's incompetence, criminal negligence, general disdain for their own responsibilities, or the dumping of toxic waste in Mississippi's landfills. Not one thing.
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You don't know that BP is incomptetent, there is no proof of any criminal negligence, BP has been at trying to stop this thing from the beginning and BP could not dump the waste into the landfill were it not legal for them to do so. In fact, the landfill is probably the best place for the stuff as it is contained and relatively safely stored. BP hasshown "disdain for its won responsibilites" just how? BP has ben hard after it from day one although admittedly having experienced a couple of false starts inattempting to halt this blowout.
Oh. By the way, it is a BLOWOUT, NOT an "OIL SPILL"! A tannker leaking into the ocean is experiencing an oil spill. This event is an oil well blowout and there has never been one like this before, so everyone is well into uncharted territory.
What do you want to do? Shut down BP? Put all the employees of BP, all the people employed at BP gas staions, all the people who are peripheral to BP out of work?
You WILL go buy an old-fashioned push-type reel lawnmower and burn your Yardman in protest, won't you?
There will be plenty of time for investigations, recriminations, wild-eyed rants; determination of of a whole lot of things AFTER the blowout is capped and brought under control.