Who's to Blame for the Gulf Oil Spill?

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Who's at fault?

Everyone.



1. The government because it gave exemptions to BP as well as turning their backs on safety inspections. They also created laws for response just for this very situation, then ignored the laws they created so that when this did happen, the government failed miserably to respond as they were supposed to.

2. BP, for abusing it's ability to get away with shit by exemptions and kickbacks and not having every safety precaution known to man working.

3. The environmentalists who refuse to let oil companies drill in safer, easier places like the Alaskan tundra which forces drilling in much dangerous deep sea locations. If this had happened on a drilling rig on land, shit would have been stopped and plugged in a day and cleanup in a few days.

4. We the people who sit back and let the 3 listed above get away with all this shit and even support them.



There, that satisfy all the candyasses who need to point a finger at "someone else"?
 
My father taught me a valuable life lesson.

"Instead of pointing fingers and making sure the blame doesn't fall on you, be the person the finds the solution to the problem. For that person is always more valuable."

But I know Alex the Racist wont accept that so....

BP is to blame for cutting corners. The Administration is blame for not assisting effectively help to contain the oil.
 
You guys are reaching. President's are not responsible for oil spills or natural disasters like hurricanes.

Why when something bad happens do we have to have big gubment step in and save us. Why are we so dependent on them that we use them as a scape goat when disaster strikes, and then turn around and criticize when they intrude in our lives?
 
Ok, I want you to refuse to use oil.

So throw out ANYTHING you have that's made with plastic or rubber.
Tear up your carpeting in the house.
Go sell your car, motorcycles, bicycles, skateboard, rollerblades.
Go drain anything you have that uses lubrication and rip out the seals.
Toss out your refridgerator, stove, washer/dryer, AC/Heater.
Then go clear out your medicine chest.
Next you need to go scrape the paint off of anything you own, including your house. Make sure you rip out all the wiring and plumbing too.
Don't forget the linoleum and shingles.
Since you won't have electricity get the candles...ooops, no, you can't have candles either. Toss them out too.
Oh, anything made with aluminum, graphite or carbon? chuck it
Anything made with electrodes and anodes gotta go too.
Kiss a good chunk of livestock feed goodbye. Better get ready to go hunt down your food.
Oh, speaking of food, stock up before the grocery stores go empty from lack of truck/trains, but make sure you buy stuff without preservatives.
Sand off the varnish off any wood products you have and remove the glues holding anything together.

Last, toss out all of your clothes.

Then come back and talk about "refusing to use oil", oh wait, you won't be able to since your computer and telephones were tossed out first.
 
They should have done what the Saudi's did in the 90s ... line up several super tankers at the spill site, use the pumps that they have to suck oil in (when filling) or push oil out (when they get to port), and "skim" the surface of the water with the oil, then go to port and off load the oil/water mixture where it will be separated and the clean water discharged back into the sea?


"No one's listening," says Nick Pozzi, who was an engineer with Saudi Aramco in the Middle East when he says an accident there in 1993 generated a spill far larger than anything the United States has ever seen.

According to Pozzi, that mishap, kept under wraps for close to two decades and first reported by Esquire, dumped nearly 800 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf, which would make it more than 70 times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill.

But remarkably, by employing a fleet of empty supertankers to suck crude off the water's surface, Pozzi's team was not only able to clean up the spill, but also salvage 85 percent of the oil, he says.

"We took [the oil] out of the water so it would save the environment off the Arabian Gulf, and then we put it into tanks until we could figure out how to clean it,"
 
A leader doesn't necessarily save the people, but he leads them in their efforts to save htemselves.

Unfortunately for Obama, and I keep saying this, he's put himsefl in the middle of this fiasco by saying he's been on top of it since day 1. He's now a target of criticism for making himself responsible. For what he's responsible, I don't know.
 
Actually as shit goes on, Obama is becoming one to blame directly.

The states down there have plans ready to go to at least try to keep the oil off the marshlands and their coasts.

The white house is refusing to give them the approval to do so even though people ON BOTH SIDES are now yelling at Obama to give them the green light.



Every day that Obama ignores the calls and yells from both Democrats and Republicans to give the go ahead, the worse it's getting.
 
the problem is, is that everybody thinks Oil is the only fuel to use, we have been brain washed, did you ever stop to think, people in the Oil industry like selling you Oil, they make a pretty good penny off of it, amirite

and there so much more money to be made from Oil.... what about wireless electric cars, do you think oil industy wants that shit to happen, HELL NO!!!

this Oil deal is much bigger then you think, hmmm.. its like a bad drug addiction, dealer being the Oil industry, they pay off top Gov officials, we just meer sheep being lead at it, just because they say its all we have, we believe them I don't fuckin take they word for shit

BTW, we do need some oil, but if we stopped using it to fuel cars/trucks, it would scale it back to a much more safer amount
 
of course because obama was personally directing the MMS to take payoffs and sex parties
 
Is that how helpless we are as a people now, that on the President can help us save ourselves? I'm saddened by that.

What irks me is the same people that don't want government in our healthcare, or stepping on our freedoms, and hate government intrusion are the same people willing to cast the first stone over Obama's response. I'm not for any of it, and I think that the government should stay out of the problem.

Let BP endure the costs and take the fall for this one.
 
The blame is split between the companies and the government

companies should be protecting the environment more cautiously

government should have more stringent regulations
- example: companies should not be penciling in safety forms for regulators to trace over with a pen, as has been a common practice
 
No, but he and others turned a blind eye, like the good little Corporate bitches they are.
 
If you could link us to stories of this for proof great. Until then, I am skeptical.
 
you know wat... i bet if everybody in the world stopped buyin fuel, it wouldn' be to long before people saw the next safer fuel delivered, from our great, and wonderful Oil industry
 
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