Continued Failure to Contain BP Oil Spill Draws Outrage
Have you ever wondered how the B.
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oil spill could have even happened? It has been over a month since this whole mess began, and like many people I just can't understand how something like this was even allowed to happen in the first place.
With all the safety precautions that are put on things these days, how can you not have a backup plan in case something like this happens?Now of course some will argue that they did have safety measures in place, and that this type of disaster was something unexpected, and was powerful enough to go beyond anything that they had.
But personally I still fail to believe that when this level of technology is being used, that a scenario such as this wouldn't be planned for.
Plan A, plan B, plan C, and so forth should have been ready, and people trained to execute them in case just such an emergency were to occur.
To me, it sounds like the big oil company was either trying to cut corners on safety measures, or were just too stupid to think that anything like this could happen in the first place.
So now that it has happened, we see just how inept these people really are.
Millions of gallons of crude oil have be spilled thus far, and up until this recent "top kill" attempt has been made, the best thing they could come up with has been a cap, and ramming golf balls and metal into the shaft in an attempt to plug it up.
Give me a couple of million dollars, a scuba suit, and a giant cork and even I could make a better attempt than that.
Even if this latest attempt does work, the damage has been done, and the outrage towards those responsible is coming from all sides.
Even the President of the United States had to defend himself recently after facing criticism that the federal government was slow in responding to the disaster, with comparisons to the Hurricane Katrina fiasco of 2005.
So what does this mean for all of us?obviously the ecological ramifications will be felt for quite a long time, but what will most certainly be the case is yet another round of huge increases in the cost of gas at the pumps, and more of our tax dollars going towards cleaning up a mess that we the people did not create.
I certainly hope that isn't the case, and that B.
P.
is made to foot the cost for any and all cleanup measures, but I won't hold my breath.
P.
oil spill could have even happened? It has been over a month since this whole mess began, and like many people I just can't understand how something like this was even allowed to happen in the first place.
With all the safety precautions that are put on things these days, how can you not have a backup plan in case something like this happens?Now of course some will argue that they did have safety measures in place, and that this type of disaster was something unexpected, and was powerful enough to go beyond anything that they had.
But personally I still fail to believe that when this level of technology is being used, that a scenario such as this wouldn't be planned for.
Plan A, plan B, plan C, and so forth should have been ready, and people trained to execute them in case just such an emergency were to occur.
To me, it sounds like the big oil company was either trying to cut corners on safety measures, or were just too stupid to think that anything like this could happen in the first place.
So now that it has happened, we see just how inept these people really are.
Millions of gallons of crude oil have be spilled thus far, and up until this recent "top kill" attempt has been made, the best thing they could come up with has been a cap, and ramming golf balls and metal into the shaft in an attempt to plug it up.
Give me a couple of million dollars, a scuba suit, and a giant cork and even I could make a better attempt than that.
Even if this latest attempt does work, the damage has been done, and the outrage towards those responsible is coming from all sides.
Even the President of the United States had to defend himself recently after facing criticism that the federal government was slow in responding to the disaster, with comparisons to the Hurricane Katrina fiasco of 2005.
So what does this mean for all of us?obviously the ecological ramifications will be felt for quite a long time, but what will most certainly be the case is yet another round of huge increases in the cost of gas at the pumps, and more of our tax dollars going towards cleaning up a mess that we the people did not create.
I certainly hope that isn't the case, and that B.
P.
is made to foot the cost for any and all cleanup measures, but I won't hold my breath.
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