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seriously BP, this is the f*cking plan? no.

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alowerstandard asked
BP has funded alt energy's and BP has brought wildlife to the gulf where there were coral reefs did not exist because of the oil rigs which brought in better fishing. 246.1 Billion yeah minus a 15% gov't royalty and 35% for stockholders. In the official report the break was a caused from the blowout preventer, designed for such moments as what happened, and failed. A battery in the command module had gone out. so all blame shouldn't be put on BP. In my opinion the blame should also be put on the gov't officials for for accepting a joke of a document from BP without reading it through which states emphasis will be focused on saving the seals, sea lions... blah blah WTF Obama these animals don't even exist in the gulf. I'm not trying to support BP but I'm js that BP was on its way to a better future before the spill hit and f*cked everything up. I don't blame BP for not stopping a spill that can only be reached by robots, you would kind of think this would slow down the process of the hole being plugged. Thanks for reading and jus sayin if I am low on gas I will still purchase arco/BP fuel.

WTF Obama?!?

“Mineral rights to drill for oil in Macondo Prospect were purchased by multinational oil company BP in March 2008, at the MMS’s lease sale”

Also, from a previous poster: The government DID regulate oil drilling in the Gulf until 2008, when Bush removed restrictions that were put in place after an earlier _huge oil spill_.

That’d be Bush and Co, which, by the way Halliburton was involved in this drill operation, a company from which Dick Cheney was paid over $20 Million when he left to run for VP. Like he’d want to do anything to over-regulate his old company which HE STILL OWNED STOCK IN.

I’m not trying to politicize this disaster, but in blaming the government you are putting the blame in the wrong hands.

I’d like to, once again, reiterate a point.

The main thing that drives BP’s entire business is acquiring oil, which they do off-shore. Now I ask you, what is the worst thing that could go wrong to that? I dunno, maybe the rig explodes, the BOP doesn’t work, the oil rig sinks with crew members aboard and oil leaks into the ocean at an alarming 12,000psi, or hundreds of thousands of gallons a day. That sounds like about the worst thing. The fact that we are 8 weeks into this and we are still leaking oil means one thing and one thing alone: BP, the company who profits from the success of this rig, had ABSOLUTELY NO F*CKING PLAN for the worst thing that could happen to the main thing they do. That is not a failure of regulation, that’s a failure of industry. What’s the worst thing that could happen to a Boeing? All the engines die at altitude? Guess what? they have a plan for that. And additionally, we’ll know more when the investigation is complete, but several employees have alleged that BP pushed for shortcuts that broke safety regulations. So what would regulations do? Nothing. Enron was regulated. Bernie Madoff’s company was regulated. Now you may say ineffectively, and I may agree. But regulation is not the answer, the answer is that we as Americans have to vote with our pocketbooks and deny success to companies that violate our trust.

I’m sick of people trying to blame the government for something it can’t control unless complete socialism is instituted. With any free market, people and companies will cheat. It’s OUR job, NOT the f*cking legislature’s, court’s, or President’s job, to punish companies that fail us. A fine from the government won’t stop these companies. A loss of profitability will.

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