Why are there so many BP defenders in here?

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really??

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37363106/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/

Speaking to a federal board of investigators in Kenner, Louisiana, mechanic Douglas Brown said that around noon on April 20, the day of the explosion, rig workers met in a room adjacent to the rig's galley and "there was a slight argument that took place and a difference of opinions."Brown said "a skirmish" took place between "the company man" from BP
 
I understood it loud and clear.

To parallel my analogy, my response would obviously be: "I'm not forcing women to have babies."
 
I guess they just didn't use those pinchers now did they. I guess they also didn't feel the issue was that big. If they had shut it off then it wouldn't have occured? They didn't shut it off.
 
I am curious, especially coming from you, what you would consider ridiculous. I thought fear of litigation was the free market version of the Empire's Death Star.
 
Yes. We, the people, hold them responsible by not buying their products seeking litigation in appropriate situations.


We do not hold them responsible by having Obama nationalize Big Oil, or Obama bad-mouthing them on TV, or by people seeking ridiculous lawsuits, etc.
 
When was big oil nationalized?

He should bad mouth them on tv...that's part of the "not buying their products". If a company messes up this badly...he should publicly ridicule them.

In situations like this there will be a mixture of ridiculous and appropriate lawsuits. Always. They will have to be sorted out to determine what liability BP has here.
 
It is. But the news that keeps piling up that thousands upon thousands of people are suing BP for millions and millions of dollars is just ridiculous.
 
Well, first Big Oil is pretty much already nationalized. Not in the truest sense of the word, of course, but Big Oil is pretty controlled by government. Regardless, there have been rumors of BP being nationalized / bailed out / whatever. These may simply be rumors, but if there is any truth to them, those actions should be opposed.

I agree that people can use platforms to disparage BP, but the President has no right or authority to do what he is doing. Private citizens can disparage BP, but Obama should be silent on the issue.
 
I don't have a problem with him speaking his mind. But his cowboy attitude about kicking BP's ass (an attitude which Bush's Democratic detractors despised) seems out of place and not fruitful of any positive goal.
 
Their choices were
A) Protect the environment from a massive disaster
B) Get paid

and I can almost guarantee that "company man" could not have done anything himself.
 
stop it stop it stop it...

first the president isn't active and angry enough NOW he's too angry

this is fucking ridiculous..
 
BP and Transocean often quarreled over operation of the drilling. I started another thread on the matter that outlines BP's poor decision making and arguments with Transocean employees about switching from using heavy mud to lighter seawater in drill stabilization. None of the Transocean employees felt comfortable switching due to how much the drill had been kicking, BP was behind schedule and demanded they switch. Day of the explosion.

Also BP had experts warn them that the drilling process was unstable. They ingored this and ordered the continuation of drilling.

They had a faulty clean-up plan full of errors, people cited as experts to seek in case of a disaster (who had been dead for years)....no real idea of the impact on the ocean or wildlife in the area. They cited dangers in the gulf to animals that don't even live there.
 
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