Are banning oil rigs from our oceans for environmental reasons

Cleita

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Mon May-24-10 04:19 PM
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Are banning oil rigs from our oceans for environmental reasons

a job for Greenpeace? It seems that money will trump common sense, just as it does on the whaling moratorium. Is it time for Greenpeace to start boarding oil rigs pirate style and shut them down? I can't believe I'm even thinking this, but we have new kings and they are corporations. We are nothing but their serfs to be used or abused as needed. Our government is beholden to them. The fact that BP can even claim privacy issues by not being forthcoming with reports on what is going on and it's done with our government's compliance is ridiculous.

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BrklynLiberal

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Mon May-24-10 04:24 PM
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1. I believe it can become a cause for them..not sure about the "boarding oil rigs" part....

Edited on Mon May-24-10 04:25 PM by BrklynLiberal

but on the other hand..It is the future of our planet that is at stake here..

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Cleita

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Mon May-24-10 04:25 PM
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2. Somebody has to step up to the plate and this is an international issue,

not just ours.

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BrklynLiberal

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Mon May-24-10 04:30 PM
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3. You are right. the entire planet is at risk here...

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NNN0LHI

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Mon May-24-10 04:33 PM
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4. Try boarding oil rigs pirate style and they will shoot you

Pretty sure of that.

Don

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Swamp Rat

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Mon May-24-10 04:34 PM
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6. me too

I am certain they would shoot them stone-cold dead, and maybe even sink their boat.

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G_j

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Mon May-24-10 04:35 PM
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8. I thought of Green Peace also

but, it occurred to me that they would probably encounter serious violence.

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Cleita

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Mon May-24-10 04:36 PM
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9. Apparently they aren't considering it.

I just went to their website. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/

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Swamp Rat

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Mon May-24-10 04:33 PM
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5. I'd rather it be done through proper channels (by the Fed)

I appreciate the sentiments of Green Peace, but I don't want them "boarding oil rigs pirate style" because they may cause another disaster.

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Cleita

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Mon May-24-10 04:34 PM
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7. On the Greepeace website, they have a ticker on the spill.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/

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nadinbrzezinski

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Mon May-24-10 04:37 PM
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10. yes and no

it is time to move green... we are at peak oil...

but you are asking green peace to engage in what our wonderful guv'ment will classify as piracy... and not just our government.

There are ways to work at this.

But the first step, beyond the political is personal... we all need to collectively reduce our energy consumption.

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Cleita

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Mon May-24-10 04:39 PM
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11. I'm already down to the bare minimum.

However, I'm grateful that there will be no more rigs on the coast of California unless Meg Whitman becomes governor and then you will see them all over the coast.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Mon May-24-10 04:50 PM
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12. You are but not everybody is

in fact, most people are not there...

There is more, most people still do not give a shit as long as they get their gas at the pump.

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