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F___k BP!!!!!!!!!!

TACTAC NW Posts: 52
edited July 2010 in A Moving Train
What has gotten me most upset with the entire oil spill is that BP acted like it was no big deal. :oops: A few gallons of oil spilled, it's no big deal. Of course us as consumers will forget about what happened. Ask yourself this questions: With all the technological advances we have seen over the last decade, why is it that we don't see improvements in alternate sources of fuels? It's because the big oil companies stand to loose billions. Why is it that they pour so much money in campaigning? I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine.

I grew up in Southern California on the coast. Much of my summers were spent at the beach. It sickens me that our oceans are being destroyed by billionaires that don't give a rats ass about the future. They only care about profit margins.

I know how they can help the environment. Next time there is disaster, get on a yacht and hid away. Then the oil will just disappear.
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  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
    fuck halliburton too
    halliburton has the "cementing" contract for these wells.
    they had just built the cement covering for that well
    how do these people sleep at night
    or ever
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

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  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Do you think these companies would exist if we in society didn't give them a market to sell their products? Everyone hates them for what they have done, yet gets back in their car and drives along in the same mundane manner. Practicing poor habits leads to very likely and foreseeable results.
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  • supersonicyearssupersonicyears Posts: 2,619
    I don't think BP's business is doing to well in Florida these days. I just drove past a BP station with a big sign out front saying 10c discount. Only one car at the pump. I always look at the stations when I drive by to see if they look as busy as the other gas stations in the area. They are pretty empty. I hope they go out of business.
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  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    The gas stations are own by private owners... ie franchising. Albeit it is not good if people don't buy BP, in the long term BP will continue to make money solely because people use oil and gas. Just look at Exxon after the Valdez spill...and they're doing fine. BP may have a worse problem on their hands, but the example is the same as should be results.
    Beach wrote:
    I don't think BP's business is doing to well in Florida these days. I just drove past a BP station with a big sign out front saying 10c discount. Only one car at the pump. I always look at the stations when I drive by to see if they look as busy as the other gas stations in the area. They are pretty empty. I hope they go out of business.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • whygohomewhygohome Posts: 2,305
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Do you think these companies would exist if we in society didn't give them a market to sell their products? Everyone hates them for what they have done, yet gets back in their car and drives along in the same mundane manner. Practicing poor habits leads to very likely and foreseeable results.

    Exactly. The problem is that we live in a society where every individual is infallible. If we want things to be better, then it is up to us to do something instead of sitting on our asses. Myself included.
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
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  • sabreleafsabreleaf Posts: 310
    The alternative fuels that have been created so far use more fossil fuel energy to make than just using them. Hybrids are the biggest joke. They are hardly ever on battery power as everyone is driving them 90mph. Every fucking tree hugger with a Prius is in the left lane with the hammer down. Fucking morons. They get less MPG than a TDI or new Fiesta. I think big oil has paid to hold back cars getting great gas milage. I think we have the know how to get better than what we have now. Now with electric cars gaining ground you don't think the electric company won't jack their rates sky high if we all start driving them. Can't win.
  • MikeackMikeack Posts: 562
    Is anybody bothered about environmental damage and jobs lost elsewhere or is pollution only a local BP made thing? ALL oil leaking into ANY ocean causing terrible damage should stop now!

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ma ... elta-shell
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    sabreleaf wrote:
    The alternative fuels that have been created so far use more fossil fuel energy to make than just using them.

    I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I find this comment to be incorrect. Many new fuel types are on the verge of coming out on a bigger scale, and even though they are not perfect, it is a step in the right direction. New electric cars do use power from the grid (so they use fossil fuels), but it is less than a standard gas vehicle.

    Also, I know several Prius owners who get 45-50 mpg. You must just use the highway a lot. In fact, many of the Prius I see in florida are driven by 40 year old men and 60 yr old women driving quite slow.

    I have read a lot on hydrogen fuel vehicles and many of them are attempting to create refueling stations that create hydrogen through solar power. Give it a few years, we will see a big change soon.
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  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Better-man wrote:
    Is anybody bothered about environmental damage and jobs lost elsewhere or is pollution only a local BP made thing? ALL oil leaking into ANY ocean causing terrible damage should stop now!

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ma ... elta-shell
    I think we should all be concerned about environmental damage and job losses anywhere in the world. Unfortunately most of us seem more concerned about what happens in their own back yard. I'm guilty! During the recent months there's been a lot of talk about the BP oil spill but the thread started last week about the massive oil spill in China died after 2 posts. http://forums.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=137711.

    Valdez is mentioned on here but doesn't even make the top 30 in worst oil spills. There is another enemy, "Mother Nature". Recently on holiday I read a 2 year old National Geographic and it had an article about the worst oil spills and how many million gallons get into the sea each year. It was horrifying. However the article ended with a note saying that nature was responsible for about 1.5million barrels a year of this total http://www.awma.org/enviro_edu/fact_she ... ills1.html. Sorry I can't find a link to the NG article.

    The more oil we use the more we'll be fucked. We need to change the way we live and soon. Me included. It's ironic that the 2 countries most polluted by oil in the last few months are also numbers 1 and 2 on the highest polluters list.
  • whygohomewhygohome Posts: 2,305
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    sabreleaf wrote:
    The alternative fuels that have been created so far use more fossil fuel energy to make than just using them.

    I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I find this comment to be incorrect. Many new fuel types are on the verge of coming out on a bigger scale, and even though they are not perfect, it is a step in the right direction. New electric cars do use power from the grid (so they use fossil fuels), but it is less than a standard gas vehicle.

    Also, I know several Prius owners who get 45-50 mpg. You must just use the highway a lot. In fact, many of the Prius I see in florida are driven by 40 year old men and 60 yr old women driving quite slow.

    I have read a lot on hydrogen fuel vehicles and many of them are attempting to create refueling stations that create hydrogen through solar power. Give it a few years, we will see a big change soon.

    Thanks, Johnny. This common sense and researched knowledge is needed today.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    sabreleaf wrote:
    The alternative fuels that have been created so far use more fossil fuel energy to make than just using them.

    I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I find this comment to be incorrect. Many new fuel types are on the verge of coming out on a bigger scale, and even though they are not perfect, it is a step in the right direction. New electric cars do use power from the grid (so they use fossil fuels), but it is less than a standard gas vehicle.

    he is mostly correct ... most of the biofuels being investigated primarily corn-based fuels require more energy to create than is generated ... that is except algae which I hold great promise for ...

    the primary thing people need to get out of this is simply this: it is not so much the degree of spill or amount of environmental damage that is so utterly disastrous (although it is horrific) - it is the fact that all these impacts and consequences could easily have been averted if not for the greed and carelessness of the oil industry - something that is perpetuated and condoned essentially by society through our actions and are apathetic response to a bought gov't ...

    like i've been saying and others ... we ARE to blame for this mess ... the environmental disaster that is the Tar Sands goes on every day with very little concern expressed by the general public ... it is sad to see that it takes a disaster and some shots of suffering birds for us to even think about things ...
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/2 ... =fb&src=sp


    BP CEO Tony Hayward To RESIGN Before Tuesday: Reports
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Jeanwah wrote:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/25/bp-ceo-tony-hayward-to-resign_n_658469.html?ref=fb&src=sp


    BP CEO Tony Hayward To RESIGN Before Tuesday: Reports

    i wonder what the buyout package is for overseeing a major ecological disaster these days? ... $25 million?
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    polaris_x wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/25/bp-ceo-tony-hayward-to-resign_n_658469.html?ref=fb&src=sp


    BP CEO Tony Hayward To RESIGN Before Tuesday: Reports

    i wonder what the buyout package is for overseeing a major ecological disaster these days? ... $25 million?
    Yeah, no kidding. Maybe he's resigning before someone shoots him.
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