Tuesday, June 1, 2010

BP...what is there to say

I am all for boycotting an irresponsible business and voting with my money. The problem with the BP oil spill is that their products are in everything we use..incluiding probably this keypad and about a thousand other items in my house right now. Also, the barrels of oil gushing out were not all bound for our own country's uses, but were globally available for sale and may have ended up in China, India or Belgium for all we know. Furthermore, BP was leasing the rig from Transocean who put out a statement right about the rig blew up and the workers were killed taking full responsibility for it by apologizing to the families. So- aren't they to blame for the any failure of safety procedures and shut-off valves? Or, is that like blaming someone who owns a house for the poor yard maintenance by a renter of that home? The situation is convoluted and getting more so by the minute. The president should have taken more devisive action about 5 days into the whole thing...after BP started wringing it's hand and lying directly to tv crews. Leadership is still flailing around like a two headed fish on land and noone wants to say "Hi! I will take care of this, or at least lay out a plan". And no one, it seems, has the courage to tell BP their time of "fixing the problem" is over.

PLUG THE DAMN HOLE (Pres. Obama said weeks ago). He's right. He should allow local parrish leaders and environmental groups come in to help and tell BP to lay off. This is not a science fair, this is real life.

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