200,000 Gallons A Day

[pomtzu]

[QUOTE=RICHARD;2269113]

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?

[wombat2u2004]

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

I betcha that's all that will happen.

[pomtzu]

I betcha that's all that will happen.

Unfortunately, you're probably right, if they get that much even.

I feel so bad for all that have been affected, all because of BP's greed and total disregard for the safety of their workers, and even less when it comes to the damage that they have done to this beautiful area of our country that will suffer for many years to come.

[wombat2u2004]

Unfortunately, you're probably right, if they get that much even.

I feel so bad for all that have been affected, all because of BP's greed and total disregard for the safety of their workers, and even less when it comes to the damage that they have done to this beautiful area of our country that will suffer for many years to come.

Well....they are up against a big corporation.
Can they get together and go a class action against BP ???

[Lady's Human]

Well....they are up against a big corporation.
Can they get together and go a class action against BP ???

The only people who win in a class action are the lawyers.

The cost of goods goes up, the lawyers get rich, and everyone else gets screwed.

Stop with the litigation. Hell, why sue a company that so far is paying for their mistake willingly?

Again, the ONLY people who win in a class action are the lawyers.

[Bonny]

You would think even though it is a mile down they could run a huge long plastic pipe down to the leakage site & have pumps to pump the stuff up & out of the water. I don't think the little Dutch Boy can swim & hold his breath that long.

[lizbud]

Hurricane season starts tomorrow and that could really complicate
an already bad situation. All this misery to save a few bucks by BP.


http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37177833/ns/weather/

[RICHARD]

Again, the ONLY people who win in a class action are the lawyers.

I read that the 9/11 lawyers were trying to settle the case(s)....


A third or more of the money set aside for the workers was expected to go to their lawyers. Some plaintiffs had agreed at the start of the case to give as much as 40 percent of any judgment to cover fees and expenses. That might have meant $200 million or more going to attorneys.

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articl...127309&eddate=


These poor guys dug thru piles of bodies and trash at the site of the WTC and some SOB in an office is going to make money on their P&S?

I guess you have to be good at rifling the pockers of the sick and dying without them knowing?

Morons.

[wombat2u2004]

The only people who win in a class action are the lawyers.

The cost of goods goes up, the lawyers get rich, and everyone else gets screwed.

Stop with the litigation. Hell, why sue a company that so far is paying for their mistake willingly?

Again, the ONLY people who win in a class action are the lawyers.

Hmmmm....like giving strawberries to pigs....eh ???

[Lady's Human]

and for all the little piggies, life is getting worse.......

[pomtzu]

Well....they are up against a big corporation.
Can they get together and go a class action against BP ???

I'm no lawyer, but I imagine they probably could, but BP's lawyers would have it all tied up in litigation for years. A snowball in Hell would stand a better chance than anyone collecting anything, I would think. Of course, BP could just add that into the higher prices at the pumps, too. I'm sure there's already a bunch of biggies in a think tank, already trying to figure out how to minimize their expenses and losses, where they should be seeking out some brainiacs to come up with a surefire way to stop the leak.

[RICHARD]

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

No, I don't ask them to deal with it.

I want them to rise above it.

Having been thru a few 'natural disasters" I know enogh not to depend on the city, state or government for aid?

After the 94 Earthquake I remember seeing - will use this term with a great amount of respect - wetbacks working their arses off, cleaning out homes and yards of earthquake rubble.

The ones that had no cars, piled the stuff out on the street. The ones with cars charged a fair fee to load up the rubble and take it to the dump.

The impotent knuckleheads left the piles of trash in front of their homes for the city to pick up. It was MONTHS before you could drive down a street and not see a pile of brick, drywall, wood and stuff that wasn't EQ damage on the streets.

The people who wanted to move on with life didn't wait for anyone to show up and help.

Most of the people who got FEMA money spent it on other things, not home repair..

What I am suggesting is that people make the most of a situation.....

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Let's put this into terms we all can appreciate?


During the winter I read stories of people who could not shovel a drive or walkway in front of their homes.

They had to wait for a neighbor or relative to shovel the snow.

Wait for your local government to come out.

What do they tell you?

They'll clear out the street and gutter- sidewalk and path to your house?

Pay more taxes!

Sometimes you get a bunch of kids, who have no fear of work, get together and start up a little neighborhood company.

I'll shovel the snow on your walkway, once a week for 10 dollars.

Those are the kids that end up with a 500 jillion dollar company.

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If people deal with it? They are the folks you see on the news complaining about the assistance from the government.

You'll never hear about the people who do thins for themselves.

They don't have time to talk .

they are rebuilding their lives?

[Grace]

I agree with your premise, Richard, but cleaning up after a hurricane or earthquake is a tad bit different than capping a leaking oil well a mile under the sea.

And, yes, they can work at cleaning up the oil on the shoreline - but not if it keeps rolling on in.

[Catty1]

As opposed to class-action lawsuits, I hope there is one heck of an inquiry held - where the surviving rig workers can be called to testify honestly about what happened, and not have to worry about staying quiet to avoid retribution from the corporation.

[RICHARD]

As opposed to class-action lawsuits, I hope there is one heck of an inquiry held - where the surviving rig workers can be called to testify honestly about what happened, and not have to worry about staying quiet to avoid retribution from the corporation.

I love you doll, but............

A nice inquiry with bottled water, lunch breaks, stays in nice hotels with the young, nice smelling interns wearing lace camisoles and thong underwear sounds great.

Me? I think at this moment I'd prefer to have some smelly, overweight nasty arse pipefitter/diver/oceanographer/geologist standing over a map and diagram trying to fix things.

Some idiot office wienie, wearing 40 dollar underwear, 70 dollar shirts and 600 dollar suits only care that they dodge the bullet and keep their jobs.


I have BS on speed dial and not afraid to call the number....