killing people, and polluting on an epic scale?
Why are so many people angry with the Government over the oil spill?
Why aren’t people upset with British Petroleum for not maintaining, and servicing their oil rig properly?
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June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
You ask a lot of silly questions.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
Perhaps $5 million, Obama makes that you know.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
Blame Bush! I knew it would come to that.
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2010/05/02/you-knew-this-would-happen-libs-blame-gw-bush-for-gulf-oil-spill-disaster-obama-blameless-praised-audio-video/
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
$2 is the amount of money you need.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
It took the govt more than 1 week to even recognize that there was a problem. Regardless of the cause they should have been involved much sooner.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
because Obama is suppose to protect us not kill us and animals! he should of stoppt this from happening if he really care about us
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
There is an alarming number of people in the world who would watch the world burn to blight if it ensured that fueling their Hummer still costs less than $3 a gallon.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
Well Toyota made billions in having a "dangerous" product, GM, Ford, and then you have the whole Exxon Valdez thing, so it’s hard to put a real number on it. But then we don’t really get mad,and all upset if it doesn’t affect us personally. Speaking of personally, didn’t Alaska make billions on Exxon’s clean up efforts and didn’t that generate thousands of jobs for the Alaskan economy, and how did that epic pollution end up as far as damaging the environment. Yea, turned out that the environment rebounded pretty damn good and pretty damn quickly.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
We’re angry with the govt. because (1) there weren’t sufficient environmental regulations to protect us from this kind of thing and (2) the regulations that existed weren’t properly enforced. Starting with Reagan, the EPA, OSHA, etc. were shunk, agents were laid off, so big corporations could get away with whatever they wanted to do. This was easier than rolling back the regulations, which is what a lot of politicians really wanted to do.
BP is a corporation, and corporations are amoral. The exist for the single purpose of making a profit, return on investment for their investors. In a way you can’t blame them for ignoring laws that can’t be enforced. All their competition does it too.
In the last few weeks we’ve had -two- disasters that happened because corporations violated environmental and health & safety laws that couldn’t be properly enforced. The mine explosion was another one.
Even when corporations do get caught in a crime (which happens all the time!), no individual is held responsible, just the corporation itself. Nobody goes to jail. So there’s no real deterrent. BP may pay a fine of a few million dollars, which is a drop in the bucket compared to what they expected to make with this oil rig, perhaps what they’ve already made. If the fine for speeding was 50 cents, nobody would care about obeying speed limits.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am
If it turns out that BP did not maintain/service their rig properly, then you bet we will be angry. But so far that hasn’t been proven. On the other hand, there is no doubt that Obama and his "people" were pretty darn slow on the uptake when it comes to dealing with it.