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BP oil spill. People are paying attention NOW, aren't they? *mad face*
May 2, 2010 at
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Unless my "search" button is broken, I can't find any threads about this oil spill.
Aren't there some Loungers here from the Gulf Coast area, besides myself?
This thing is going to be bad. Really bad.
I grew up in Pensacola, FL and have spent my whole life on these beaches. Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Navarre, Destin ... they are beautiful. And they have already suffered so much devastation over the years from hurricanes and now they have to endure THIS?
If this goes on long enough and the oil makes it's way into the Florida Keys, that will be the end of the natural coral reef habitat. What about the dolphins and fish and turtles and birds?
Environmental disaster aside, I can't even imagine what the economic impact is going to be.
Aren't there some Loungers here from the Gulf Coast area, besides myself?
This thing is going to be bad. Really bad.
I grew up in Pensacola, FL and have spent my whole life on these beaches. Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Navarre, Destin ... they are beautiful. And they have already suffered so much devastation over the years from hurricanes and now they have to endure THIS?
If this goes on long enough and the oil makes it's way into the Florida Keys, that will be the end of the natural coral reef habitat. What about the dolphins and fish and turtles and birds?
Environmental disaster aside, I can't even imagine what the economic impact is going to be.
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LINK [Oil hits Fort Walton Beach FL]
It's not so much what I CAN see that scares me as it is what I CAN'T see.
Yep, pretty intelligent for all those people to be giving their money to Hugo Chavez and his Citgo stations instead.
Yep, pretty intelligent for all those people to be giving their money to Hugo Chavez and his Citgo stations instead.
Yep, pretty intelligent for all those people to be giving their money to Hugo Chavez and his Citgo stations instead.
But then again, you can't help educate the average
idiotconsumer.I passed a BP yesterday that was a nickel cheaper than the Chevron across the street, and the Chevron had more people
Then again, I can't say I'm helping BP. I haven't bought gas a BP in a while. Closest one to me isn't even in this county (no lie). The only one anywhere near me really is on the way to my sister's house 45 minutes away.
Yep, pretty intelligent for all those people to be giving their money to Hugo Chavez and his Citgo stations instead.
If I feel that someone's heart is in the right place, I refuse to judge them just because a handful of people on the internet seem to think they know better. Especially if those internet "experts" are barely past puberty and have no life lessons of their own to share.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I do not believe that a boycott will put BP out of business. But if I bought gas at a BP station, I would feel as though I'm either oblivious to what they have done, or worse, that I am willing to turn a blind eye to it.
I (and millions of people just like me), am/are neither oblivious or willing to look the other way.
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If I feel that someone's heart is in the right place, I refuse to judge them just because a handful of people on the internet seem to think they know better. Especially if those internet "experts" are barely past puberty and have no life lessons of their own to share.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I do not believe that a boycott will put BP out of business. But if I bought gas at a BP station, I would feel as though I'm either oblivious to what they have done, or worse, that I am willing to turn a blind eye to it.
I (and millions of people just like me), am/are neither oblivious or willing to look the other way.
Why is the current gulf spill any worse than the spills that occured during the first gulf war?
10 Largest Oil Spills
1.Kuwait - 1991 - 520 million gallons
Iraqi forces opened the valves of several oil tankers in order to slow the invasion of American troops. The oil slick was four inches thick and covered 4000 square miles of ocean.
2.Mexico - 1980 - 100 million gallons
An accident in an oil well caused an explosion which then caused the well to collapse. The well remained open, spilling 30,000 gallons a day into the ocean for a full year.
3.Trinidad and Tobago - 1979 - 90 million
During a tropical storm off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, a Greek oil tanker collided with another ship, and lost nearly its entire cargo.
4.Russia - 1994 - 84 million gallons
A broken pipeline in Russia leaked for eight months before it was noticed and repaired.
5.Persian Gulf - 1983 - 80 million gallons
A tanker collided with a drilling platform which, eventually, collapsed into the sea. The well continued to spill oil into the ocean for seven months before it was repaired.
6.South Africa - 1983 - 79 million gallons
A tanker cought fire and was abandoned before sinking 25 miles off the coast of Saldanha Bay.
7.France - 1978 - 69 million gallons
A tanker's rudder was broken in a severe storm, despite several ships responding to its distress call, the ship ran aground and broke in two. It's entire payload was dumped into the English Channel.
8.Angola - 1991 - more than 51 million gallons
The tanker expolded, exact quantity of spill unknown
9.Italy - 1991 - 45 million gallons
The tanker exploded and sank off the coast of Italy and continued leaking it's oil into the ocean for 12 years.
10.Odyssey Oil Spill - 1988 - 40 million gallons
700 nautical miles off the cost of Nova Scotia.
Nope ... that's about par.
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Other are nothing but a bunch of whiners on the sideline complaining.
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Other are nothing but a bunch of whiners on the sideline complaining.
Whiner? I guess watching my country's Florida coastline and marshland being destroyed makes me a whiner so be it. I would like more action taken by BP and our nation.