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True, wish them luck. On the bright side, the guy in charge will have his life back.
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True, wish them luck. On the bright side, the guy in charge will have his life back.
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I'm pretty sure that once the oil spill is stopped, and cleaned up, some other oil company will swoop in and buy up BP for a bargain price.
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I'm pretty sure that once the oil spill is stopped, and cleaned up, some other oil company will swoop in and buy up BP for a bargain price.
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This is certainly a tragedy! I, agree that BP "should" fail. I'm positive that they are holding secret meetings with other big oil giants trying to figure out a way to fuck all of us by increasing petroleum product prices to "offset" their losses. Their stock has been declining daily. I'll bet the stockholders are "up in arms" about their losses too. I would certainly love to see the prices on gas/oil "frozen" by executive order. But, that most likely won't happen. Once "Big Oil" gets their collective asses going, they will figure out how to raise prices to fuck all of us and save BP. Every day I watch as they try to get the CEO on tv for interviews and he refuses. It's up to everyone to get after their politicians and force something to be done.
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I don't think there's much chance of that since BP contributed 72% to Reps and I think it was 42% to the Dems.
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I don't think there's much chance of that since BP contributed 72% to Reps and I think it was 42% to the Dems.
Like I said big oil is so far up the governments ass it ain't funny.
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I don't think there's much chance of that since BP contributed 72% to Reps and I think it was 42% to the Dems.
Like I said big oil is so far up the governments ass it ain't funny.
Yeah, somebody is getting a lube job alright.
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I don't think there's much chance of that since BP contributed 72% to Reps and I think it was 42% to the Dems.
Like I said big oil is so far up the governments ass it ain't funny.
Yeah, somebody is getting a lube job alright.
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I'm not opposed to drilling Nobel. I just think they need to watch over it and the companies more than we do to make sure they do it safe. Too many lives have been lost because of people looking the other way at safety regs, etc. We'll never be rid of the big oil companies, I understand that. As you said, if this happened a half a world away most Americans would shrug and still hit the gas station to fill up their Escalade.
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I hear you, Nobe, and chef said it as good or better than I could, that it's about their irresponsibility, not the fact that it's oil. It's funny, look back at the beginning of this thread and it happened again. There's this immediate assumption that anyone angry at BP is some dumbass that doesn't understand that we are tied to oil in all that we do. We get it. It's about safety and due diligence and being responsible to something other than their fucking shareholders. Would I care if it was off the coast of Venezuela? Yes, but not nearly as much, because that isn't my country or in my backyard. That's not my government that's supposed to be making these greedy bastards jump through the right hoops and follow all the right regulations. Let them make noise about their own, at least until they get shot for speaking up.
I saw where some former government official got pissed about Obama criticizing BP, saying that "all of Americas might and wealth" couldn't clean up this mess, so now we're blaming a multinational company. Well....yes, and yes, dickhead. The mess that BP made. Other than diversion, not sure what his point was.