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Originally Posted by psili
I just think your posts are off the mark. Very vehement and off the mark, rather.
- BP has a shitty history of safety.
- BP's been trying to "collect" oil, as far as I can tell, not "stop" it. Makes sense from a business perspective considering the amount that's spewing out still.
- The media blackout around the area is a pretty sketchy move.
- Who gives a fuck what a "conservative" is? If history has shown lately, politicians equally suck regardless of party affiliation.
- BP
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"As far as I can tell.."...says it all!
"A shitty history of safety"?
Stats and citations please!
With a blanket statement like that one, you need to show that BP has more safety failures than it does successes and you can't do that.
BP has thousands of operations world-wide and for the most part they run just fine. Admittedly BP has had some safety issues which have resulted in some doozies of failures but in and of themselves, those failures do not necessarily indicate an overall record of poor safety measures.
You would rather BP just let the blowout run while they figure out how to cap the well? What about the fish? "What about the children?"(Snicker!) Collecting the escaping oil costs far more than it is worth, so that one's out the window.
"Media blackout"? Sure; why not? The media no longer reports the news, it distorts, editorailizes on the news and to a large extent, creates the news and then presents that news as fact when it is indeed tripe. The "media" would much rather do a hack job than accurately report the news; sells more papers, you know!
As far as politicans for the most part sucking big green wienies, I do tend to agree but I'd much rather have a level-headed conservative or libertarian representing me than a wild-eyed, overly emotional "liberal" who runs on "feelings" (Touchy-feely ones, especially!) rather than rational thought!
oh
and this is technically NOT a spill
it's a blowout
The effects are similar but let's try to accurately describe the event, mkay?