08-11-2010, 01:40 AM
You seem awfully riled up about this. Did your fishing business get impacting that badly? Got a big oil slick on you when you went surfing? I'm not quite sure where this big concern over oil and the environment came from since I've not known you to be this passionate about it in the past.
Everyone I've talked to seems to think this "disaster" is a non-event. The Texas shrimp boat captain I know says the only impact has been that demand has gone down because people are afraid the shrimp is contaminated but he's seen no problems with his catches. No die offs. No hauling in oil polluted nets. People I know who have gone to Florida for vacation have come back and said the beaches were great and the water seemed fine.
You get some pictures on the intertubes of indeterminate amounts of oil washing up in indeterminate places and suddenly it's a disaster of epic proportions and gross negligence is the only explanation?
I have BP gas in my car right now. It was the nearest gas station when I wanted to fill up.
You might as well refuse to buy any cargo shipped by train next time there's a train wreck that creates a nasty chemical spill. Or I just saw on the news that some cargo ship out of India got rammed and is listing and leaking fuel into the sea. Maybe you should refuse to buy anything that has come by ship, to punish those reckless, greedy shippers.
Accidents happen. Stuff blows up. Get a helmet. I'd like to see evidence that this was negligence before I get riled up about it. If we agree to get Vllad that help you think he so desperately needs, will you agree to put your tinfoil hat back on?
(Incidentally, "natural disaster" generally means it's natural in the sense that it occurred in nature, without any input or influence from man, not natural in the sense that the disaster involved elements of nature which were unleashed by man. Earthquakes are natural disasters. Oil rigs that explode, sink into the ocean and spew oil for 6 months would be better called a "man-made disaster". If you're comparing natural disasters, then the 1994 California earthquake was worse than this by any measurement I can think of. For man-made disasters, it depends on how you're measuring it. In terms of cleanup costs, it's apparently still well under the cost of that tanker that split in half off of Spain.)
Everyone I've talked to seems to think this "disaster" is a non-event. The Texas shrimp boat captain I know says the only impact has been that demand has gone down because people are afraid the shrimp is contaminated but he's seen no problems with his catches. No die offs. No hauling in oil polluted nets. People I know who have gone to Florida for vacation have come back and said the beaches were great and the water seemed fine.
You get some pictures on the intertubes of indeterminate amounts of oil washing up in indeterminate places and suddenly it's a disaster of epic proportions and gross negligence is the only explanation?
I have BP gas in my car right now. It was the nearest gas station when I wanted to fill up.
You might as well refuse to buy any cargo shipped by train next time there's a train wreck that creates a nasty chemical spill. Or I just saw on the news that some cargo ship out of India got rammed and is listing and leaking fuel into the sea. Maybe you should refuse to buy anything that has come by ship, to punish those reckless, greedy shippers.
Accidents happen. Stuff blows up. Get a helmet. I'd like to see evidence that this was negligence before I get riled up about it. If we agree to get Vllad that help you think he so desperately needs, will you agree to put your tinfoil hat back on?
(Incidentally, "natural disaster" generally means it's natural in the sense that it occurred in nature, without any input or influence from man, not natural in the sense that the disaster involved elements of nature which were unleashed by man. Earthquakes are natural disasters. Oil rigs that explode, sink into the ocean and spew oil for 6 months would be better called a "man-made disaster". If you're comparing natural disasters, then the 1994 California earthquake was worse than this by any measurement I can think of. For man-made disasters, it depends on how you're measuring it. In terms of cleanup costs, it's apparently still well under the cost of that tanker that split in half off of Spain.)