evnow said:
LTLFTcomposite said:
See here's the deal. Big companies don't pay for anything. In spite of the rhetoric that BP will pay for all this, the reality is that money will be extracted from all our pockets and paid to fisherman to compensate them for the fish they purportedly would have caught, or otherwise given to other small people.
I was listening to NPR coverage of Obama's address. After that they interviewed some parish president or such. I & the NPR journo was totally flabbergasted by what she said - from the very second she started a broad attack on Obama and the morotorium on drilling. She didn't even say a word about Obama's plans or how to cleanup etc. It was as if she was the paid PR person for big oil.
With such politicians (and people who vote for such politicians) - I felt they shouldn't be given a single penny. If after all this they still want to keep drilling in risky places - they deserve to get hit once in a while. Looks like they want all the money from drilling activity - but none of the risks.
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=127887765&m=127887748
The reality of the situation is this:
The GOM only had 2 major industries, fishing and oil exploration.
Oil has now killed fishing esentially forever.
the only thing they have left is oil exploration, thats why they want the ban lifted. How much more damage can the gulf get for a 2nd, 3rd or 4th additional accident? not much, it's pretty much toast for the next 30-40 years anyway, it will never fully recover in our lifetimes.