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Originally Posted by GregE
I spend a lot of time in the Clearwater, FL area. The beaches there are truly gorgeous and the wildlife is amazing.
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This is my home. I've lived other places but I always come back here. Clearwater beach has been having some really rough times due to "the church". They are pretty much making it so small businesses not tied to the organization can't survive. Now this, I really don't know what will happen. Its foolish to think the oil won't come here, when it does I don't know how the community will recover.
It seems that when hospitality started to drop telemarketing rooms really started to be on the rise, but even the boiler rooms are starting to close down- and rightly so, but I just don't know where people will turn next for work.
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Originally Posted by selena
To say that BP is going to pay for it all is laughable. They may indeed end up paying for the actual cleanup effort. But that is to say nothing of all the economic fallout, and the environmental repercussions that will last for decades, if not more.
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Agreed. I think the government needs to make an example of BP and make as much cost stick to that company as possible. They need to make it hurt so bad financially that other companies will stand up and take notice. That is the only thing they understand. If the rewards outweigh the risks it will continue to be business as usual. They need to all have the shut off valves, they need to be sure they are all functional, and someone needs to spot check them to ensure this is done and impose heavy fines if not. They need to have contingency plans for the worst case scenario, they should have had a plan in place for this.
The gulf is just a bad place to put oil wells, period. Its too risky. Hurricanes come through here all the time, every time they have to detach the rigs, etc etc. Huge procedure, lost production time, etc. I mean, its not an industry I'm hugely familliar with, but as an outsider it seems it would be more cost effective to put more wells on stable ground, in say Alaska.
