Stuff and nonsense.
Big as this blowout is, our problem is bigger than that. Let’s make the solution bigger, too.
The boatload principle.
Our regulatory mechanisms are mere appendages of the industries they are charged with overseeing.
Hammered.
First Krauthammer blames the gulf spill on environmentalists. Then he calls occupation “forward defense”. What next?
Money spill.
BP execs must be held accountable, as well as the contracting firms and the corruptly dysfunctional system of regulation that aided them.
Backlash.
Personally, I think they should break BP into a million pieces and cash each fragment in as a downpayment on the damage they’ve done through their greed and negligence.
Oilcano.
BP and its partners are doing their best to limit their liability. But don’t even try to talk about limiting their profits.
Drill this.
Did BP spend anywhere near as much on their wellhead safety technology as they did on their image-scrubbing ad campaigns?