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Who should pay for the relief from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
That is this week's Quick Vote question on my website.
What do you think? Who should pay?
I personally think BP should.
Who should pay for the relief from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
That is this week's Quick Vote question on my website.
What do you think? Who should pay?
I personally think BP should.
I think environmentalists share in some of the blame, they helped limit drilling closer to shore.
Which in the event of an accident, would have made it 100x easier to cap a problem well.
Of course with more drilling closer to shore, any spills that would have occured would impact the costal shores more directly. And oil wells are not particularly tourist friendly for coastal area's. Imagine the business Daytona would lose if a few oil wells were visiable from the beaches, and for Daytona the tourist trade would top any money made from the oil wells
The impact would be negligible compared to what is occurring now.
Fixing a leak in shallower waters would be loads easier than doing one more than a mile below the ocean surface.
As to the impact in tourist areas, don't do it right in those areas.
Not to mention that structures become less visible because of the curvature of the earth.
Of course ALL expenses for anything and everything related to this massive greed-made crisis falls upon BP, Transoceanic, Haliburton, all of their BoDs, and all stockholders in these corporations. Furthermore, those that had any decision making responsibilities leading to this assault on our planet should be held CRIMINALLY liable.
No freakin' mercy.
I would agree if the regulations on where you can drill were a new thing, but deep water drilling has been around for a while and BP had plenty of time to adapt or choose not to drill there.
Of course ALL expenses for anything and everything related to this massive greed-made crisis falls upon BP, Transoceanic, Haliburton, all of their BoDs, and all stockholders in these corporations. Furthermore, those that had any decision making responsibilities leading to this assault on our planet should be held CRIMINALLY liable.
No freakin' mercy.
BP should pay - but will they? Will it come from their pockets?
Likely no - it will come from OUR pockets every time someone unknowingly buys BP oil/byproducts . . . their cost will go up to cover it, rather than taking a hit for the team. That's the downside to fining companies and expecting them to cover costs of anything "extra" - they'll always find a way to pass it onto the customer.
Not if we take away their licenses to operate in the U.S.
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