BP Sucessfull

[AngusJS]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Yes. BP has been quite effective and timely in responding to this spill. They did everything they could, and their stock proves it. When was the last time you willingly invested your hard-earned gains in the governmnet?
I feel sorry for you if you did, because you're not likely to make anything off of bonds.

What does that have to do with anything? Regardless, their stock price does not prove that they've been effective.

Why should they be commended for doing what they're supposed to do, fixing a problem which they themselves created? That's like commending a drunk driver for paying damages after hitting another car. And now it turns out that the top kill didn't work, and the leak is still flowing.

Many of them were sunk within sight of shore, and they were all sunk within a few months of each other. I don't know whether or not they did more damage than this spill, but what I do know is that the Gulf of Mexico is a huge body of water measuring over 600 quadrillion gallons. It'll be fine, trust me. It doesn't need you to look after it.

Obviously the spill isn't going to destroy the entire Gulf. I never said it would. But the spill will affect the area where it is located. That's why the tankers are irrelevant, as they weren't all sunk in the same place and in the same month, and their spills occurred on the surface.

The only things that need you to look after the Gulf are political interests who need public approval before they steal your money and give you exactly nothing in trade, aside from a misbegotten warm-fuzzy feeling.

BP and other oil companies care about the Gulf a lot more than you or anyone else does, simply because it is their business. Where the hell are you, Captain Planet? Are you too busy demanding that other people do things in your stead because someone else told you it was a good idea?

While you're busy sitting on your butt, BP is busy trying to fix their mistake and clean up millions of gallons of seawater, not because anyone forced them to, but because they want to earn your respect and business. I can only imagine how much they must enjoy armchair eco-pundits bashing them for a perfectly understandable mistake.

It's their business to make a profit for their shareholders. It's those wacky eco-crusaders who raised the importance of the environment in the public eye to where it could affect a potential polluter's profit margin, so that they would start caring about it. And I don't count myself among their number, but hey, nice ad hominem. Of course, it seems the environment wasn't important enough to BP et al to ensure that they wouldn't use defective parts and improper procedures.

And are you seriously suggesting that I'm hypocritical for questioning your love-fest for BP if I don't quit my job, move 1,000 miles, get the relevant training and take part in the clean up? If so...wow.