200,000 Gallons A Day

[Grace]

Satellites track the oil spill.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-as-it-changes

That is frightening.

[pomtzu]

Another thing that I find "amusing", under the circumstances, is how it has been said (by Pres. O, I believe), that BP will pay back every penny of the cost of cleanup. First of all, who figures up what that dollar figure is? Impossible to do I believe, since this will go on for years. And who really believes that BP will pay it??? They may very well be assessed the charges, but it's going to be John Q Public - you and me - that pays in the form of higher prices at the pump, and anywhere else that their petroleum products are used. BP may not come out of this smelling like a rose, but I doubt that they will suffer much in the end, when all is said and done.

[Lady's Human]

And all that will be accomplished by the popular cry to punish the oil companies will be precisely that: Prices will be raised to pay the fines, and then the same populists will be launching a congressional investigation into why prices are so high at the pump.....

Clean up the mess and move on.

Figure out why it happened, and prevent it from happening again.

You can punish a person, but you CANNOT punish a company..........as the costs of the punishment are passed on to everyone else.

[Kater]

If you want to *do something*....

Contact your elected Senators and Reps and let them know that they will be voted out of office if they don't ban off-shore drilling this session, and provide the funding to make environmental laws enforceable.


...assuming you share my politics and absolute horror at this mess. Just my $0.02.

[Lady's Human]

Banning offshore drilling?

And you're going to heat your home in Colorado how?

I'm with Puckstop......I could easily survive living a 19th century existence, but I'd prefer not to.

Banning Nukes after TMI got us some REALLY good results..........

[pomtzu]

Banning offshore drilling?

And why aren't the oil companies drilling in shallower water, instead of 5000' deep? It has been reported that there are known oil deposits in much shallower water, and an accident such as happened, would obviously be much easier to contain/repair. Of course, I don't know the first thing about oil drilling, but it seems that would make a whole heck of a lot more sense.

You can punish a person, but you CANNOT punish a company..........as the costs of the punishment are passed on to everyone else.

Exactly!!!



I also find it inappropriate that the Pres isn't in DC this weekend!

[cassiesmom]

I also find it inappropriate that the Pres isn't in DC this weekend!

He's in Chicago, although he went from here to Louisiana to assess the oil spill situation, and then came back. They were seen attending a barbecue at the neighbors' house. When they're home it causes even worse traffic tie-ups because they have to shut down one section of the expressway (which is already under construction) at a time to get him and the First Fam and the dog to and from the airport. It was reported in the Chicago Tribune that Michelle was working in their garden before they headed for the party.

I heard on the news today that the top kill hasn't worked, so it is likely that nothing further will be effective in containing the spill till at least August when they can drill a second well.

[RICHARD]

Banning offshore drilling?

And you're going to heat your home in Colorado how?

I'm with Puckstop......I could easily survive living a 19th century existence, but I'd prefer not to.

Banning Nukes after TMI got us some REALLY good results..........

You have a wood chopper!

I was watching an interview with some kind of hotel owner.

He was all p.o.ed and talking about how the OCs need to pay him b/c the hotel was operating at a 40% decrease in occupancy.

I have been on vacation at the beach and never went near the water.

LOL, I wasn't about to carry a full cooler of beer and food to the beach then lug it back while I was all jacked up, tired, sunburnt and lugging a crotch full of sand in my shorts.

Be creative, discount the rooms, figure out how to make the Spring Break shenanigans family friendly and sell, sell, sell.

Should that greedy -- get an oil company settlement? he'll make money on it. He sure as ---- won't pay the people he layed off and will save on operating costs.

Just like government.

Lining up all the excuses to worry about now and never looking at the problem and how to make the best of a real hard time.

Child please!

[pomtzu]

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Be creative, discount the rooms, figure out how to make the Spring Break shenanigans family friendly and sell, sell, sell.

Lining up all the excuses to worry about now and never looking at the problem and how to make the best of a real hard time.

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Discount the rooms - all well and good - but the folks who are looking for that beach vacation just aren't going to come, if there is no accessible beach to go to.

How about that restaurant owner that specializes in all those wonderful seafood dishes from the Gulf waters harvest. No seafood = no customers.

And the fisherman who make their living on their boats. If the waters are polluted then they can't very well take contaminated fish to market to sell, not to mention the eventual cleanup costs of their oil laden vessels.

How do you tell these folks to just deal with it?