200,000 Gallons A Day

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Lets not forget the greedy .GOV that was hoping to cash in on BP's mile deep well, the .GOV was so ready to cash in it overlooked its own regulations leading up to this crisis. The same .GOV that is going to try and cash in by suing BP. So yes BP and its shareholders, I hope Im one of them, are greedy, so is the .GOV, and both should be held accountable.

[RICHARD]

Lets not forget the greedy .GOV that was hoping to cash in on BP's mile deep well, the .GOV was so ready to cash in it overlooked its own regulations leading up to this crisis. The same .GOV that is going to try and cash in by suing BP. So yes BP and its shareholders, I hope Im one of them, are greedy, so is the .GOV, and both should be held accountable.

Yeah, Ride BP into the ground and let su taxpayers pick up the tab.
Morons.

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Yeah, Ride BP into the ground and let su (I'm pretty sure you meant "us" and not "su" I would have fixed that for you in the quote but the butthurt would have ensued from somebody and I would have joined the Band.) taxpayers pick up the tab.

BP has been good to and for AK. As an Alaskan when BP does good I do good. I dont really care enough to check my holdings to see if I have a stake in BP, but if their stock gets much lower Im gonna try and buy in.

Morons.

This is what most politicians are calling us right now.

[RICHARD]

BP has been good to and for AK. As an Alaskan when BP does good I do good. I dont really care enough to check my holdings to see if I have a stake in BP, but if their stock gets much lower Im gonna try and buy in.

When I am mad my fingers get possessed and they type out stuff I do not mean?

Koko,

This is not a commentary at you it's pointed at the people in the picture!

Why do people let kids poke around in that shiat?

Why not tell the kids to leave it alone? It's bad enough that it made it to shore. Now the kids are going to play with it and track it back into the rental or the Dodge Caravan the dad is still paying for.

IN the early 80s the Cali coast had tar balls wash up on the shore.

You stepped in them and the rest of your trip was spent scraping dead dinosaur off you sole.

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In the Midwest, farmers have taken to charging people to come and spend time working a farm.

It's free work for the farmers and people, who would never get the chance, get to play cowboy for a few days.

People in Louisiana did a similar thing, touring tourists thru the damaged parishes.

Now what?

If I was there and owned a boat? I'd take out an ad in the paper and ask for people to - for a modest fee - to come out and help clean up area.

No need to be greedy, take a percentage to keep the boat afloat, to pay the crew and donate the rest to charity.

People are motivated when it comes to efforts like that.

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During the Exxon Valdez spill lots of fishermen made more money in days then they would have made for the whole fishing season. Tug captains made hundreds per sandwich getting lunch to the workers. Yes Exxon is still giving the same fishermen the shaft today as they did back then, and now they are breathing easy with BP in the spotlight.

I dont think BP is in the same lower class as Exxon is. Why do I think that? Because BP is still a major investor in oil development in AK and Exxon isnt. BP has allready spent millions, or is it billions on the capping and clean up? Cleaning up the mess they and our .GOV regulatory officers created. They are still dumping cash to stop the leak and clean it up while the .GOV is hosting musicians in the Whitehouse.

BP knows they EFed up and our own .GOV is trying to pass the buck. Or does the POTUS and the First Family need another break?

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Richard, Ive had a long, tiring, short week...

But are you trying to equate farms that offer you a discount for fruits or vegetables that you pick yourself, to kids picking up oil/tar balls off of the beaches in the Gulf? If thats the case the kids picking up the oil/tar balls are the clear winners. Its free oil.

[wombat2u2004]

Richard, Ive had a long, tiring, short week.

Take a little nap Blue.....you deserve it

[RICHARD]

Richard, Ive had a long, tiring, short week...

But are you trying to equate farms that offer you a discount for fruits or vegetables that you pick yourself, to kids picking up oil/tar balls off of the beaches in the Gulf? If thats the case the kids picking up the oil/tar balls are the clear winners. Its free oil.

My peeve was about letting the kids PLAY in the oil.

Here's the rub.

You offer discount rooms for visitors and play up the "green/ecology" slant.

Get sponsor to donate gloves, bags and other materials. Hold little workshops and get people excited about particpating in the clean up.

Say a 30% discount on room rates in exchange for helping the cleanup?

Toss in a t-shirt and a free food/bbq for a few hours of work during their stay?

"I helped clean up the Gulf Oil Spill" on the shirt, along with the sponsors names on it?

Look at Dawn Dishwashing Liqiud, long before this happened they were selling bottles of the stuff with promises of donating one dollar to the oil spill victims (birds)

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Everyone is sitting around thinking about the negative effects on the area....

If I am the governor/senator of the affected areas, I come out and play up the fact that, altho this is a huge tragedy, the area's people are not giving up.

We always try to rise above out problems.


I have said this before....there are some places on the planet that would absolutely screw up the response to this disaster, either that or shrug their shoulder and say, 'Screw it"....

Sometimes we panic way too soon and never really appreciate or apply the "GIT ER DONE" attitude that got us here.