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Hondagirl wrote:

blues2cruise wrote:I thought this thead was about BP oil and the leak?

sorry again blues..back to topic...................................

BP is for British Pension.

Lol

And British petroleum

The CEO of BP got booted.
Yeah the guy that wanted his life back.

I wish my last job gave me about 900k when they laid me off. Here I thought two months pay that they gave me was good severance pay. I got ripped. lol

Anyone see the latest Greenpeace campaign? They claim to have shut down every BP petrol station in London for the day. (BP claims they shut down about 20.) Interestingly, the plod made no arrests, despite BP bleating about "irresponsible behaviour". I suspect the police knew that in the current popular mood it would just make heroes of the protestors. Can't have that, now, can we?

Not that this kind of protest action will do much good - but it does bring a smile to your face. They are trying to get the new CEO to take a more environmentally friendly line. Some hope! Do they have any idea of the financial forces acting on companies like BP? I'm not at all defending them (heaven forfend! ), but if Greenpeace think they will change the world by asking nicely and closing down a few garages, they will be disappointed. Campaigning groups like Greenpeace and the Green Party have always struck me as extremely naive.

It's not really about BP, is it? This won't be the last incident of this kind we'll see, and once we pass peak oil and the oil wars start to hot up, we'll probably see a lot worse. Corporations round the world will resort more and more frequently to these expensive and environmentally risky drillings. And when competition gets hot enough out will come the guns and bombs. Eleven people died in the explosion and thousands more have had their livlihoods destroyed. It's a drop in the ocean of what we are likely to see in the future!

SV is right about not just blaming BP. Every oil company in the world has the same attitude and operates the same way. This time it was BP that got caught with their pants down, but it could have been any of them. There are many thousands of wells sunk into the ground around the world, who knows how many tankers bobbing around the oceans, trucks hauling it around the roads, millions of miles of pipeline strung across the place. An accident is going to happen every so often. No way around that as long as we keep demanding there be fuel in the pumps when we pull up.

That said, the various oil companies should still be held much more accountable when an incident happens. By that I mean, sucking it up and spending the cash to clean and stop a spill when it happens, as well as paying compensation to those who are affected by it. No matter how loud the cry, they can afford it.

Ha! Well, how's that for prophesy! I've just read that today a barge banged into an oil well off the coast of New Orleans and started another oil slick (totally unrelated to the BP spill.)

When Greenpeace starts using oars or sails for their ships only then can they complain about oil.

Regardless of which company had the leak...BP was the company that took almost 4 months to stop it. That is grounds enough for a big fine and head rolling.

just after skimming this thread for me not to have a bundle of comments about stuff in here would be impossible -- i was travelling throughout this whole debacle, although it did start right before I left... eventually late last year i went digging for the current situation, but have since put this to the back of my mind again.

anyway.. i wanted to flag it for others until i can comment -- i have to get some stuff done because if i start commenting on this stuff i will lose another hour that i cant afford just now.

I heard gas prices in the US are nearing $4 a gallon, here in the UK we are near $10 a gallon... Do you think the US economy can handle $4 a gallon gas let alone $10 a gallon gas?

Maybe they will open up the Gulf of Mexico, Alaskan Wildlife Refuge and other oil spots to reduce the price of oil to US citizens?