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BP Still Concerned About Shareholders
I couldn't believe the report yesterday that BP had to assure investors of their ability to pay for the mess in the gulf and that BP would have money for dividends.
Stop right there. I don't think BP really realizes how much they are on the line for here. They not only have years if not decades of clean up costs ahead of them, they also have years, if not decades of covering losses suffered by tourism and fishing industries as well as any other related losses incurred by gulf coast residents.
And why are they worried about profits for their investors and themselves for that matter? The biggest environmental disaster probably in human history at this point and their investors are worried about profit?
BP cheif executive Tony Hayward needs to get his head out of his ass and stop worrying about investors, profit and getting his life back and focus more on the clean up of the mess that his company caused.
It was greed and want to save the almighty dollar that led to the lack of safety measures that caused this mess, so to see this trend continue is disturbing
At this point BP shouldn't be worried about profiting their investors, their investors should be worried about BP surviving this mess.
Category: News | environment | money | oil/gas
BP Wants Their Profit
I saw an interesting take on the whole mess in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday and it got me thinking that there may be more truth to this than not.
Why hasn't BP just blown this well up yet and shut this leak down? They could have done it weeks ago but they didn't.
The fact is the greedy bastards at BP and all these stinking oil companies involved want their profit that is leaking up from the ocean floor. They don't want this thing shut down.
Right now BP is sitting there with a pipe going to the well sucking up whatever it can and its going into a tanker. Has it stopped the leak? No, but BP is going to get every drop they can before they absolutely have to.
They are greedy bastards, every last one of these oil companies. They are risking killing the entire ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico for a few dollars in profit and for that I hope they go bankrupt cleaning this thing up. Who needs this company doing business if they are going to blatantly disregard safety for profit.
When does President Obama step in and say look, you guys simply are not getting the job done, therefore we are going to make the decisions based on my scientific advisors/engineers and you guys will do what we say, not what you feel will stop this thing.
Furthermore, what are we doing leasing a rig in American waters to a British company who would have taken OUR oil. Does anyone find that fishy? Sounds like a Bush/Cheney deal, lets face it BP didn't find themselves on that rig overnight they have probably been there for some time setting it up and drilling.
Category: News | Politics | environment | oil/gas
Ha! Oil Execs Tell The Truth! Yeah Right!
It took 5 seconds for me to fall out of my chair laughing when I saw the swearing in of the oil executives at the congressional hearings on the oil spill. Did you catch that? The Truth? They really expect these guys to tell the truth? If you watched the whole thing you will notice that when they grilled the BP exec he delicately blamed Trans Ocean and Halliburton and the merry go round went round and round as each one delicately passed the blame to the other two with no one of them sitting there and saying yeah we screwed the pooch. All three parties are guilty as sin and ultimately the blame goes deeper than them, it goes to our former president George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who basically bedded themselves with big oil and gave big oil free reign over all that they suveyed. They lifted restrictions, looked the other way at environmental regulations and basically said do what you need to do to pull your profit out of the ground. I wish Al Gore or someone of his stature in the environmentalist camp was in there, I wish they would have asked some tougher questions. Big oil is getting off easy even with the semi tough questions they were asked. This whole incident is going to be with us and the Gulf Coast states for decades and these three companies need to pay up, they can never right their wrongs, the damage has been done and until the oil is completely gone which takes well over 20 years looking at Alaska, but they can pay out their huge profits and at least reimburse every single citizen who has been wronged by this.Category: environment | oil/gas
And Then There Is Limbaugh
How this guy has survived and garnered the listeners he has over the years is simply amazing especially when Limbaugh insists on saying things like this oil spill is..... ready....."Natural", if left alone he thinks the Gulf will heal itself, it will take care of itself, the wild life, the fishing industry...he thinks Prince William Sound in Alaska is "Pristine" again......Its a good thing he wasn't calling the shots when we were moved out of Love Canal, he might have told us to "continue living there, dioxin is candy."
Lets review:
The oil is still there Rush, its still doing damage Rush. This won't go away Rush. But I forgot, there is nothing we can do to fuck up this planet is there Rush. This planet will heal itself....sure in hundreds of years after the oil has broken itself down and we disappear and stop polluting the shit out of it, maybe.
At what point to we hold Rush Limbaugh accountable for lies like this? There are listeners to his show that follow him like sheep, like he is a god or something. Hes not folks, hes a fat, drug addicted shit who spews crap out of his mouth and his followers buy it.
Id like to think even some of his most loyal listeners, at least the educated ones will call him out on this. This oil spill is not natural Rush and it ain't gonna clean itself up.
If you choose to continue to believe that it will I have a great Idea, lets fill your multimillion dollar condo up with oil and you let us know if it cleans itself up. If its as natural as you say it is you should be able to do okay with it around for awhile.
Here is a great Psychotalk with Big Eddie who caught wind of Rush's absurd statements:
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Category: News | Politics | environment
Big Stinking, Oily Mess
What the hell is wrong with this country? First of all, if you saw the CEO of BP talking about the spill stating that they would be responsible for cleaning up the oil but not for the accident and it didn't make your head spin and green vomit come out of your mouth after hearing him then you are not an American.
First of all, I don't care if you were drilling of your wifes left tit and it was too floppy to hold up all the black sludge you guys were claiming for BP's profit, the fact is you knew what you were getting into when you sent your people onto the rig, you knew what safety devices it had or in this case did not have therefore you are cleaning it up and re-imbursing the people of the gulf coast of the United States of America with your British pounds if it means that BP fails.
Thats right, if BP has to go under to pay this thing off, to make sure that each and every person who loses their job over this, the tourist industry, the environment that suffers over this that needs to be cleaned up, BP will pay the bill.
If person A takes my car and goes and plows into someone at an intersection its not my fault, its the jackass who took my car, especially if I told him about the blind spots.
Why aren't some of our politicians not making more of a stink about this? Lets get one thing out of the way on the political side of this, the Obama Administration has done everything right to this point, if anything he hasn't been tough enough with demanding BP forks over every dollar they have to this and insuring the people of this country that they will get reimbursed for this. Lets face it, directly or indirectly, whether you live in Seattle or New Orleans, this thing is going to have lasting impacts. BP has fucked this country up for not years but DECADES.
Don't believe it? Take a look at the most recent video of the Exxon Valdez mess from 1989: Lives were ruined and the environment is still suffering 21 years later. The biggest difference is that the Gulf is highly populated and there are even more lives to ruin from this. So what really up this catastrophe? These oil companies are cheap. They made record profits yet were too cheap to install or make sure the proper safety devices were in place. Dick Cheney and George W. Bush helped them do that. They deregulated the oil industry allowing them take shortcuts on safety features that could have prevented the whole thing. Want more? Check out who actually leased this rig to BP and what their involvement is in this, Big Ed Schultz hits on all cylinders on this on the Ed Show and he was talking about it on his radio show. I respect the hell out of him because he doens't hold back and neither should we, BP doesn't care about cleaning this up anymore than they do about reimbursing this country for the damage they did, pay attention for who Trans Ocean is in this clip:Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Yeah, Trans Ocean, the biggest oil drilling company in the world, home office in Houston, Texas and they DON"T PAY TAXES. It doesn't matter who pays for this mess as long as who ever does A) isn't us, the American Tax Payer and B) They pay for not only the oil clean up but the long term environmental costs/cleanup and reimburse everyone who is damaged financially by this mess. If it means this Trans Ocean or BP or both go under and never return then so be it. Ed is right, its time we listened and followed finally, what this man said years ago now and actually mean it, no more oil!:Category: Energy | News | Politics | environment
Drill Baby, Spill....Oops....
I haven't been writing alot recently because my computer crashed and I had to invest in a new one, so I have been sitting back watching the news and the oil rig accident off the coast of Louisiana should be a big reason why the Drill Baby Drill right wing folks need to stick a sock in it and get on board with renewable energy and making this country not just less dependent on foreign oil but less dependent on oil period.
One accident in the Gulf of Mexico threatens hundreds of miles of coastline and believe me tourists don't travel there to see oil slicks and oil covered wildlife/beaches. Not to mention the fishing industry, yeah they want to burn this off but that is a last ditch effort and lets face it, lighting water on fire propbably isn't going to help the wildlife in that part of the gulf much.
All reports I have seen have this well leaking for weeks if not months before its finally shut off, that can't be a good sign for the entire gulf coast. They should probably make sure this thing is taken care of before hurrican season because get one good hurricane through there and you'll have a real mess. If we don't take a lesson from another environmentally catastrophic oil spill then maybe this will get us thinking again:
Gas prices are now averaging over $3 per gallon again for ALL grades in Western New York. Where is the electric car?
Category: News | environment | oil/gas
To Act or Not To Act
This guy puts forward a very logical argument for skeptics and supporters of action to fight climate change. He steps through it logically and is able to reach a logical conclusion as to what we should do, take 10 minutes out of your day and take a look, hear him out:
I wish a lot more of our elected officials thought like this. The all talk about the cost...well one aspect he didn't mention was converting to a green economy, one that in the long run will decrease the threat of global warming does not have to be an economic train wreck. Going "green" ultimately will decrease our dependence not just on foreign oil but on oil in general, lets face it, even the stuff we have here isn't enough to sustain our energy needs long term, we need wind, solar and nuclear as well as other energy ideas. We stop sending money overseas to buy oil and fuel from countries we don't like and who don't like us. If that money stays here, we benefit. Also, anyone who thinks that we don't have an effect on our global environment is kidding themselves....Anyone hear of Love Canal? I lived there, its uninhabitable there. We can ruin this planet and that is a small example. Another is how we almost killed off the bald eagle from pollution from the pesticide DDT. Man made pollutants almost killed off the bird on our money and a symbol of our nation. Bottom line is the economy is just a small, fixable part of a scenario that could go wrong in a lot more ways than just the financial sector. We can always fix the economy which actually is a pretty lame excuse.Category: Global Warming | environment
Last Minute Laws
Last minute laws, they are called "midnight rules" that an outgoing president can get passed by midnight of November 21st slide through as laws enacted by his administration. They all do it, including Clinton who set a record for those laws, but it is the nature of the ones that George W. Idiot is trying to get through that is disturbing. You would figure with the lowest approval ratings of any president ever, he would just say screw it and fold up his tent and shuffle on back to his village in Texas, not this one. nope, every chance he gets to skirt the constitution, he will take full advantage of.
Most of them are environmental in nature including the following:
1. New rules to speed oil shale development including auctioning off land RIGHT NEXT TO 3 NATIONAL PARKS! It also involved changing endangered species laws and protection to make this happen allowing more polluting of rivers and streams.
This next one just kills me, how anyone can not be disgusted by this is beyond me and Im leaving it below word for word because it needs to be read:
2. The Chicago Tribune did a special report saying the administration undercut a clean-air rule aimed at curbing childhood lead poisoning:
...the EPA had planned to require lead monitors next to any factory emitting at least a half-ton of lead a year. But after the White House intervened, the agency raised the threshold to a ton of lead or more, according to e-mails and other documents exchanged between the EPA and the Office of Management and Budget.
Thats our children that they are talking about, you wonder why more and more children are being born with birth defects and conditions like autism, look no further. This president has allowed the passage of some of the worst environmental/pollution laws ever.
There are links in this article so you can go look at this jack asses last minute, mind boggling laws. I remember a time when a song called "This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land" meant something, now our politicians piss on our air, water and land with no regard for the public because all of a sudden, the public doesn't give a shit. To me thats sad that we can't stand up to this moron of a president and say no Mr. President, its not worth mining for oil shale right next to our pristine beauty of our national parks and quite frankly, we don't think this should happen, and we will fight this motion by your administration to allow this.
Category: News | Politics | environment
I Actually Agree With The President
Finally, something the President and I both agree on. George W. Bush will sign into law a bill that will insure that the water in our Great Lakes goes no where.
With the drought conditions and water shortages out west, there has been talk in recent years about diverting water from the Great Lakes to the western states. Its something that could have if allowed to happen, could have devastating effects on our ecosystems in the Great Lakes. The lakes were meant to supply water to one area, the Northeast and upper midwest regions, not the western states and us. The west's water problems is theirs to deal with. Thats what you get when you put millions of people in a desert. Generally populations are meant to live around water ways, the only problem is, the water in the Colorado river which supplies most of the west with water, was not meant to supply the size of the cities it supplies (Pheonix and LA). So, to protect our water source, Mr. Bush is signing it into law, that the lakes are not to be touched. Finally, some positive environmental awareness out of W.Category: News | environment
Rain Dispersal
According to this report China used rain dispersal chemicals and rockets during the Olympics to prevent rain from falling in the Bejing area
That is not the first time I have heard this "technology" was considered being used but is it right? Who are we to control nature? Simply controlling weather to prevent it from happening during an event? I don't care if it is the Olympics its not right and seriously needs to be looked at by the international community as being outlawed. Its bad enough we are altering climate by the pullutants we throw into the atmosphere as innocent as fossil fuels seemed back 100 years ago or so when they were first discovered as a viable fuel of the future, but now we are intentionally trying to alter the weather. Have we truly investigated what long term impacts of altering regional weather like this could have on a global scale? What if long term altering or regional rainfall using these chemicals and rockets alters rainfall patterns hundreds or even thousands of miles away? Think about it, a front or storm system that was meant for the California coast is dispersed by the US for example before it hits because the Super Bowl is being played in an outdoor stadium and the NFL doesn't want it to rain, while that storm system is dispersed for LA, the southeastern US going through a drought doesn't get that rain that was supposed to make its way across the country and give the south eastern states rain the so need. Thats just an example. Besides that what are those rain dispersing chemicals? Those are going into the air that we breathe....I think it would be nice to know about those chemicals before they are used. Its scary to think we have this capability. We can control what really should not be controlled by any one species on this planet. We have no right to control the weather. The weather happens for a reason. Rain is necessary, snow is necessary. Even hurricanes and tornados serve some purpose. We have no right to try to control this. No one does. I hope this does not become the norm around the globe. This should be stopped before others try it and it becomes the norm rather than the exception.Category: News | Olympics 2008 | Weather | environment
