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MudDucker wrote:The disbersants were used to save the beaches. That is a hard call as to what will do the most damage. The more that comes out, the more it seems this was a total cluster both by the company and by the regulators.

Dubble Trubble wrote:I will say it again. How many of you on here ride a Donkey? If you use a truck, car, or motorized boat, YOU are part of the problem (I am also).

This was an industrial accident, nothing more, nothing less. The ramifications of it are going to be widespread, but until we quit using oil (I do not see that happening), we are going to have these things happen.

It is no different than if you were in an auto accident, except a lot more lawyers are going to get rich off of this one.

Lets just hope the guys working on this can come up with solutions that work. Armchair quarterbacking and the blame game is getting us nowhere.

I don't like the spill one bit, but I still buy BP gasoline, and will continue to do so. They are going to be hit hard by this, yet they are providing us with gas for our little fishing trips.

When you tell me you have given up buying gasoline or Diesel, then I will listen to the whining.

Sorry, just the way I see it.

Dubble

Dubble Trubble wrote:I will say it again. How many of you on here ride a Donkey? If you use a truck, car, or motorized boat, YOU are part of the problem (I am also).

This was an industrial accident, nothing more, nothing less. The ramifications of it are going to be widespread, but until we quit using oil (I do not see that happening), we are going to have these things happen.

It is no different than if you were in an auto accident, except a lot more lawyers are going to get rich off of this one.

Lets just hope the guys working on this can come up with solutions that work. Armchair quarterbacking and the blame game is getting us nowhere.

I don't like the spill one bit, but I still buy BP gasoline, and will continue to do so. They are going to be hit hard by this, yet they are providing us with gas for our little fishing trips.

When you tell me you have given up buying gasoline or Diesel, then I will listen to the whining.

Sorry, just the way I see it.

Dubble

Scoop Sea wrote:

MudDucker wrote:The disbersants were used to save the beaches. That is a hard call as to what will do the most damage. The more that comes out, the more it seems this was a total cluster both by the company and by the regulators.

Trust me, the dispersants are not being used to save the beaches, the dispersants are being used to try and keep the oil out of the wetlands/marine estuaries. Oil on a sandy beach is an easy job to clean up verses trying to get it out of the marsh and wetlands. Most booming strategies call for using deflection boom to guide oil towards beaches and away from wetlands/estuaries. You usually do more harm trying to clean up the wetlands/estuaries than you do by letting the oil degrade biologically, however, the ultimate goal is to keep the oil out of the wetlands/marine estuaries, hence the decision to use the dispersants.

The whole situation stinks, but I can assure you, all resources, BP, Feds, States, etc. are being used to try and minimize the environmental as well as economic impact.

big bend gyrene wrote:

boggob wrote:It was willful negligence at all levels in order to save or make a buck.

As an independent tired of lies spewed from pretty much all politicians, I just want to know how many of the libs on the board believe that the liberal leaders aren't guilty of the same sin?

Pelosi jetting her family around willy nilly on military planes while criticizing businessmen for doing legitimate business on jets (I worked at GD in Tallahassee and it was the only way for our leadership to meet for BUSINESS in one day, and as I sat in the meetings I know it was indeed for business), Geithner cheating on his own taxes, Daschle failed to pay more than $140,000 in taxes and interest on a car and driver provided by a wealthy Democratic fundraiser, Obama's playing more golf on the job in two years than Bush did in eight and likes his eating his caviar dinners quite a bit while the nation at large is suffering, Gore's made millions and is aiming for billions off his warming falsifications, and put 'em all together and they're spending almost every cent of the nations GDP.

I'll trust the businessman in a FREE market system everytime over the politician. The businessman at least faces the threat of other's stealing his business if his reputation becomes too damaged. Take it from someone who has worked with private industry and the government, the private businessman is much more apt to wisely spend his AND other's money than the gooberment.

Anyone wants to argue that the politicians aren't chasing power to pocket big bucks too, I'm all ears...

MudDucker wrote: I think the cost of this one to BP will cause it go back and check its policies.