Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

[EagleLady]

BP Needs to quit being lazy and do something. This is ridiculous

[sodascouts]

This is a terrible tragedy and all, but think about this:

This is not the only oil well in the world. Getting this one fixed has boggled the minds of lots of very smart people. All the while that this one has been leaking, others around the world are pumping. What if this (or something like it) happens at another well? Evidently, no one really knows how to fix this kind of problem, but yet, they are still pumping away. Are there regulations in place now? So what? Regulations don't matter when there is no known fix anyway. So, how do these companies manage to keep pumping when they are clearly in violation for not having emergency plans in place? BP isn't the only petroleum company out there.

The problem is that if every oil well stops pumping... our nation and the industrialized world comes to a screeching halt. We are HEAVILY reliant upon petroleum; even temporarily calling a halt to drilling (as if we could, as the US doesn't control all of the wells in the world) would be debilitating to our way of life.

Even the greenest of the green uses fossil fuels every day of their lives - anytime you use something that has plastic in it, which includes the computer you're using to read this right now; anytime you play a vinyl LP; anytime you take a picture with a non-digital camera; anytime you wear something with synthetic materials such as polyester; anytime you buy your kid a balloon filled with helium; anytime you eat something which has been fertilized non-organically; anytime you use a highway... the list goes on and on.

It sounds great to call a halt to this until they get their act together, but currently oil wells are too necessary for that - unless you want to live like an Amish person. Until alternative energy is able to make up more than a modicum of what we use every day... and right now, it's quite a low percentage... we're stuck.

However, if the government is willing to make these industry's wallets bleed enough by enacting harsh fines for non-compliance with stricter regulations, perhaps we'll get somewhere. It's all about the bottom line.

[EagleLady]

Maybe We shouldn't be dependent on Oil. I am sure we can come up with Alternative fuels. We don't have to be "stuck"

[sodascouts]

That's the ideal. I hope one day we can reach that goal. But that day has not yet come.

[Brooke]

However, if the government is willing to make these industry's wallets bleed enough by enacting harsh fines for non-compliance with stricter regulations, perhaps we'll get somewhere. It's all about the bottom line.

Of course we can't shut them all down. But get in their pocket, now that might work.

[EagleLady]

Some are starting to boycott BP.

[EagleLady]

Of course most of us Floridians are angry. BP Let it get this far.

[EagleLady]

I say Down with BP.

[EagleLady]

Someone should tell Mr. Buffett that this will pass..... up on Shores!

[EagleLady]

It makes me sick that BP Has virtually destroyed the Gulf of Mexico