When the shit hits the fan and the oil hits the beaches.

As usual, most problems are "out of sight, out of mind." However, when that oil hits the beaches along the Gulf Coast, it will be obvious to a lot of here to fore unconcerned people. It is a sad state of affairs when a major ecological disaster has to occur before people understand what damage can be wrought. The Exxon Valdez was somewhere else that didn't matter to many.

The spill is already an enormous disaster, and it will only grow. How big is an unknown.

Imagine then if a hurricane or tropical storm materializes to draw that oily water up and then drop it down hither and yon. I realize it would be very early for that to occur. The weather patterns are so crazy now that I wouldn't bet against it.

Picture of spill from NASA:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/26/deep-horizon-oil-well-gus_n_552491.html

As profits march on and our oil-based economy recovers, the real cost of this disaster is immeasurable.

I am beyond outraged. Methods to even try to clean this up have not been a priority of the oil companies. If they were going to drill, there should have been major dollars spent to find some new ways to contain it.

I am almost outraged out. Goldman Sachs shenanigans, animal cruelty videos okay, Arizona's law to become a gated community, the SCOTUS decision on election funding and much, much more are coming fast and furious.

Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?

A corporation that declares a profit while debiting the nation is a parasite that will kill the nation.

This disaster is going to be HUGELY expensive for this nation.

What is the proper treatment of parasites?

you know like squashed. CEO's and owners rounded up and thrown in jail until given their day in court then if convicted hard time. A little bit of that would go a long ways towards fixing our problems here in America.

With the stocks, of course, the expense is defrayed by selling garbage to throw at them.

Naturally, I am not referring to Wall Street stocks.

if they couldn't turn off the flow (if the robot subs don't work, which they aren't so far). I told him that they thought they were invulnerable to spills so there was no plan which could immediately put into place, except to build a dome to cover the area which takes THREE FUCKING MONTHS TO BUILD! He was speechless.

I really think that a lot of people have more faith in companies than they do in regular people...somehow they believe that a 'they would never, ever do that!' or that 'they will get it right!'

Guess what--companies do not give a DAMN about anything except the Almighty Dollar.

If people were happy with a few million not a few billion, if people were happy with a modest job not great wealth, or modest anything, modest usage of gas and buying things, since every person that was in the consumerism idea causes the same problems.

Even when I ride the bus, I cause part of the problem.

But maybe if people would have thought about if someone would or would not stop them, they wouldn't have ran so crazily towards the cliff.



Stopping someone would be a form of coercion. I think it is enough to just try and express my opinion of why it happens. Some may think differently

to shut off, apparently. It should start reaching the shore in two or three days.

Ditto!

We've been fucked every way but sideways, but that's next.

No regulations are allowed on ANYTHING! I don't know how we survive this. :banghead:

possibility of an early season tropical storm. Thankfully that's unlikely. What a fugging disaster.

that one materializing is not out of the question. It has happened a lot. If one does then Gawd help us all.

We used to go to the beaches along the Florida Panhandle when I was a kid.

But more importantly, what is it going to do the the peoples who's live depend on it and the wildlife in the refuge. What refuge?

hell, from some on DU.


we're fucked.

Meanwhile, they make a FORTUNE on high gas prices, gouging the public during a time of war. And no investigations.

They find ways to avoid paying federal income taxes. If they were a small company, struggling each month to get by, that would be one thing. But they make BILLIONS in profits each year. They SHOULD pay more.

What a sweet deal. Tax cuts for the big oil companies. No investigations when they take advantage of consumers during a time of war. They delay settlement on the Valdez spill that harmed many small businesses in Alaska.

The list goes on and on. Exxon is too big to fail, IMO. Break them up.

Greg Palast wrote extensively on the matter.

is there any place that respects nature and humanity over destruction and profit?

:banghead:

:grr:

Correct in that the slick will have to hit the beaches before some people wake up to ecological damage caused by this catastrophe and who-knows-how-many-other potential disasters like this one if drilling is opened up along more of our country's coasts.

What personally kills me is that my family vacations every year on FL's "Forgotten Coast" on the Gulf and there seems to be a likelihood now that the oil & smell will hit those pristine "powdered sugar" beaches and marshes.