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Originally Posted by clanny
The environment will recover. The Ixtoc spill happened in the gulf and within 3 years things had recovered. Nature is more powerful than a lot of people give her credit for. This is not the only oil spill. The hurricanes will break some up, microbes will eat some, some will weather off, the gas will evaporate, etc etc etc.
And that's why I'm here too. Lets use them to filter out the unsubstantiated crap around this.
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The environment recovers to a point but like the river a few miles from me, things don't completely recover, I can eat maybe one fish a month out of there due to things done 40+ years ago. However there are at least some fish in there now, where there weren't a long time ago.
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Lastly, I'm really sorry that there's people out of work because of this. You can guarantee that no oil industry company wanted this to happen.
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Like any company their main directive is profit motive, profit motive is risk and is completely opposing environment aspects because of the economic cost. They didn't want anyone to go out of work but they didn't do what was required to reduce the likelyhood of it either, profit prevails.
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However, if the US govt drives bp bust over this, no-one will gain. There'll ne no money to fix the cleanup, there'll be more people out of work. Did you know that bp provides 25% of the oil to America? Imagine the American economy if the suggestion above about shutting bp down until they can prove it's all working safely.
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BP won't go bust, they have deep pockets, your 25% statement is very frightening and is the #1 problem with out country, our goals in this country for the last 40 years seem to be toward making singular companies for entire aspects of the economy, 1 bank, 1 grocer, 1 car company, 1 oil company. This is nothing more than economic socialism. We need to diversify and change the game so smaller more diverse supplies of energy exist, our governments efforts to eliminate all the mom and pop oil wells in the 60's and 70's was a horrible mistake, much like factory farming is one of the greatest hidden problems in this country at the moment.
We suffer from mistakes of this magnitude because the too big to fail tend to screw up in a too big way.
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Sorry for the long rambling post. I just thought I'd like to get some of my thoughts down. I'd be more than happy to discuss this in more detail with anyone.
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Don't be, what really should have happened is something that hasn't since WWII, shut down the country, mobilize anyone and everyone that can help for the good of the nation and crush the problem with all the manpower we have. Historically when oil wells have gone bust in this way, we would just drop as many tens of thousands of tons of clay, concrete and rubbish on the thing until it was plugged up. Not the best but maybe quicker way to slow it down until the relief wells are there.
Too bad we don't just do things right the first time eh?