Growing concerns over US oil leak (BBC News) (1 Viewer)

longbow said:

Far as I'm concerned the politicizing of this horrible event is just smoke and mirrors to cause the great unwashed to take their eyes off of the central issues. It should be no surprise.

This will soon morph into blatant and overt propaganda that it is unpatriotic not to support the oil industry. You know, 'national security depends on domestic oil' and 'if you stand against any oil-based industrial activity, your taking jobs away from hardworking American taxpayers'

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It already has on a lot of Louisiana/oil disaster websites. There is an army of 'oil supporters' on some sites that will keep nagging down anything derogatory said about the oil industry. I made a subtle comment on 1 site about "not worshipping false gods" and got a boatload of rude replies....who knew?

Greenpeace have a competition running to choose the new BP logo if anyone wishes to cast a vote.

There are some that pretty much sum up this sorry episode.

The intention is for BP to be taken over by American/Asian Companies. BP has caused a disaster in the Gulf, although this was American run, BP is still a UK registered company. The buck stops at BP, although any shortcuts would have been approved by the US government. As for Lockerbie, this is a new can of worms. UK companies were winning contracts soon after the release. Also only UK workers were wanted as we were the only ones to get Visas easily. Makes you think. However the US can get off its high horse, just look into EG in Western Africa. I shall say no more.
With increasing world population we will drill in deeper and more dangerous waters. The deep water drilling that could go ahead west of the UK would be far worse than the Gulf.

Thanks for the link Redeye. One picture is worth a thousand words.

Well, it looks like BP is ousting Tony Haywood. Poor gu., He'll be leaving with only about 18 million dollars.