nice, we mustve had similar lives growing up in NOLA and spending summers on Grand Isle. Still have tons of family there, its so sad seeing it covered in oil and all the life on the beaches dying.

The memories of that place when we were young will never be the same, as it is the beach itself is nowhere near what it was when we were coming up, but theyve been rbuilding it and I too was goingt o take my little girl and wife there for the first time this summer.

It will be one of my lifes regrets that both of them could not see grand isle before the oil. People who are no from here and grow up the way we do living on the water just never will understand. These waters are all we have...

/tears

You are completely missing my point. You are too hung up on being in the drama then the solution.

My only point is bitching about it, pointing fingers, and stirring up drama is getting NOBODY anywhere.

The chemicals they spray to make the oil sink are as bad as the oil itself as well.

AWARENESS, fwiw

umm hello, i was posting about media coverage/stopping citizens/reporters from filming of this event and sharing photos, YOU and NO ONE ELSE came in and started this stuff about "blame"

you started the blame game no one else. I wasnt bitching about it, pointing any fingers or stirring drama, that was ALL YOU LOL :thumbsup

fucking money will kill us all, just money money money

I think this music video I had in my head is very "current".

We were doing all that long before the spill. A spill isn't necessary for us to be able to do any of that.

Drill baby Drill! :thumbsup

Yeah, I started this thread in an attempt to burn BP a new asshole.

Check it, you'll see my name up top as OP.

Again, you and your 'cousins' have no business out there in boats to make people look bad. If you are going to help then go HELP, making the clean up crews, and BP workers look bad IS NOT HELPING. Posting threads about them 'arresting' people for being where they shouldn't be, isn't helping.

Feel free to quote me and tell me I dont know what Im talking about, and that I'm just posting to argue.

Hmm...I am seeing such scenes reported daily upon multiple media outlets as well as even my local news. I have not heard any major media outlets...or minor media outlets complain about not being allowed to photograph or cover the event.

Here you go

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6496749n&tag=api

Sickens me to the bones...

I have previously seen the video...and that is far from complaining about not being allowed to photgraph or cover the event. I watch the White House daily press briefing every day and have not heard a single complaint about being denied coverage. The event in the video is a singular event and the reporter stated that the Coast Gaurd was looking into the matter.

theking is ex military (or at least claims he was) he will disagree with you and claim no media has been stopped LOL

correction. California does drill off its coast, been to Ventura or Santa Barbara lately? plenty of rigs out there off the coast of CA.(dont know what they are pumping, could be NG)

i think the oil companies pay states that allow drilling, fees as a tax for allowing them to profit from the states natural resources, what your state does with those proceeds is a whole another buisiness. i think alaskans get kickbacks for their oil fields.

better then goldmines which just have to pay $1 per year per acre lease to the BLM and get to rape $8B in gold out of a hill.

I read that BP did not install "expensive" safety valves. That's unfortunate.

absurd? hardly.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spil...ry?id=10731680

http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_n...ted-31719.html

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-sp...over_bp_d.html

Fuck BP.

it sucks

everyone should watch this vid, the whole thing, dont watch 2 mins and stop.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=87314616001

Yeah, because we don't want electric cars - we don't want solar energy - we don't want wind power - we don't want ANYTHING better than oil!

You are an idiot!

We are all fucking pawns to the powers that be.

It doesn't matter what WE want - it never has!

Follow the fucking money - it doesn't end up in OUR fucking bank accounts!

Why is all the rage and blame put on BP? What about Halliburton, the company that cemented the drill into place and had just completed that task only 20hrs before the blowout?

This whole fucking mess stinks. :mad:

Forget your meds today?

I say we hold the blame also, for 'needing' this Oil and your best answer is to rant on like a shit belching lunatic and call me an idiot, great argument. What are you a 16 year old who's overdosing on steroids?

I didn't ask you to agree with me, but if I'm an idiot for stating that, then you must be 5 levels beneath me for your childlike reply.


So carry on whining and bitching like a fucking schoolgirl, that's gonna solve lots of problems. You got FUCKING YEARS to go after the people at fault.

YOU HAVE MINUTES TO SAVE THE DAMAGE BEING DONE.

Pretty simple fucking decision to make about what should be done first.

You do understand that no amount of money is ever going to repair the damage being done yeah ?

People continually make the mistake of thinking money can fix anything and everything.

NO! The government does not cover the rest, THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS DO. Also, king Hussein just increased the tax to .32

BP has the power to arrest people?!

Anyways.. theres a lot more coming for the areas that are "victim" of the oilspil. What about those millions of tourist that visit these states/areas every year. Im pretty sure a lot of them will plan their trips elsewhere.

Its a fucking fucking shame BP manages to construct something that can pump millions of litres of oil to the surface, but NEVER thought about how to fix shit when something went wrong. Guess they where to busy counting money.

But now what? What can we do?

How old are you? 33 here. My birthday is in June, we use to rent a camp there for a week every year for my birthday from as far back as I could remember till I was 10 or so. Last time I was down there was before Katrina. Was looking forward to going back this summer.

Surf fishing, running crab lines along the beach, floundering at night, fishing off the pier at night under the lights catching school trout... lots of fun.

Pretty sure California doesn't drill for oil.

Sure the oil companies pay the state they are operating out of, but that is not my point. If Florida and California say "no we don't want oil rigs off of our cost" then fine. Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Alaska etc.. can all say the same thing then right??? Why is it that some states get fucked having to deal with this shit and the others say " oh no, not us... but btw, send that oil you get over to us we need it". Fuck that. You either drill or compensate the state drilling if you choose not to drill. The "not in my back yard" people have been getting away with too much for to long. Either pay extra for it, or produce it yourself, or stop using it.

People don't realize all these oil wells need pipe lines. When they put pipe lines in the cut right through the marsh. There are tons of pipe lines down here that helped make coastal erosion a lot worse. Which happens then is we have less land to break up the surge from hurricanes. So now our levees take the brunt and there is nothing to knock it down before that. What little buffer (marsh) we have left is now soaking in oil. So to all the people that said " don't rebuilt back that city" after Katrina. That's nice, about 30% of the oil produced in the US comes from Louisiana, the oil companies killed our coast line and make us much more vulnerable to flooding from hurricanes, but as long as the rest of the country gets their oil from us they don't give a shit what happens to the people who lives here. :Oh crap

Amazing there are actually people defending BP.

Yea that's the tragic part. It will take nature generations to clean this mess. What BP is doing with chemicals to break down the crude will have a COSMETIC affect only. Everything will be dead.


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BP have said they will pay for the cleanup and disregard the $75m limit on liabilities.

They fucked up big time and they should pay for it!

i keep reading about BP not installing this safety valve on here, but can't find a source for it. have you got a link?

Arrested for filming oil? BS

amazingly similar LOL I am 33, turn 34 next month in June man.

Well my family has lived in this area since before it was America so never had to rent cabin but I stayed there for at least a month every summer growing up, I spent Hurriane Juan on Grand Isle despite evacuation orders :) 3 weeks on an island covered in 4 foot of water LOl I was 11.

shut up man. i minimize that shit in my life. if you live like that maybe them i blame you consumer robot.

honestly i wont be surprised if people start to bomb bp offices.

At least BP's heart is in the right place.

http://assets.motherjones.com/enviro...ilbeachbag.jpg
http://motherjones.com/environment/2...and-isle-beach


:disgust Fucking greedy pathetic humans.

Exactly, the problem here isn't that companies want to make money, the real problem is that government interference in the economy (limited liability etc) created a situation where companies have no reason the prevent problems.

The solution to the problem is: less government. In a free market system, in a pure capitalist system, companies would be liable for 100% (or more) of the damages caused.... a clear incentive to care about safety.

And why are companies able to act this way? Because governments interference in the economy makes it possible.

Without government interference in the economy => no (free) limited liability (where the tax payer has to pick up the tab) => companies are forced to protect their investments/installations/workers/reputations/....