The Gulf Oil Nightmare

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Well presently I'm over a thousand miles north of it... and hopefully there will be a 200 years from now :)

"Looking at this whole picture from the outside the blame for the situation at hand belongs to anyone using oil right now, incuding myself. None of us will pay for the damage being done by using this oil. It will be our children, grandchildren and the many generations to follw who will have to pay for the mistakes that we are making right now."

Following that line of logic, we are paying for the mistakes of our grandparents. Would you not agree with that?

If you feel the need to take personal responsibility for your energy 'misdeeds' then you are free to do so. It was not my decision to drill into the seafloor, pretty sure it wasn't yours either, and I was not offered the chance to vote on it. That's the point I'm trying to illustrate. Even more to the point, to use your example, for every new well they drill there is one less opportunity to do things differently. That is the way I see it.

BTW did you know there has not been a new refining facility built in over 25 years? Seems to me (and a whole sheetload of other people) that the amount of traffic increase in that time would sure justify building a few more?

You know..... if they really wanted to keep prices reasonable. AHEM.

[JERRY2KONE]

Look I am not saying that any of us would or should be standing in the same shoes as BP in this matter to receive blame or penalty. I believe that BP will suffer not only a herendous loss financially for this matter, but also a huge loss in business for whats going on here. BUT we all share some leve of responsibility for what is happening to our world as a result of using fossil fuels.

Yes I believe we all suffer in some ways for the mistakes and the successes that our fore fathers have made in the past. All one has to do is open their eyes a little wider and look throughout history at the wins and losses that our country has suffered through in the way of patriotism, invention, and/or in fighting over a piece of real estate.

BP was only doing what the people wanted them to do, and that is providing oil for our use. Of course they did everything that they thought possible to prevent any mishaps such as this one, but there are always unknowns and accidents in every situation that we have not come across previously. BP thought they had all of the angles covered, but one simple mistake will end up costing them several billion dollars in clean up, restitution, captiol losses, and business losses, and the rest of us will have to suffer many many years of devastation to our ecological system as a whole. One can always turn their head and state that it is not my fault in any way, but if you bought $1 of fuel from them, then you to share some level of responsibility. This is why these companies put us in this situation in the first place. You could mirror this to the drug Cartels. They would not have the success they live if there was not a demand for the product. So you don't think the dealer or the junky share in that responsibility?