That is, apparently, what is now going on in the Gulf of Mexico. The BP oil leak is estimated to be leaking, not at 5,000 barrels a day, but at 95,000 barrels a day, or just under 4 million gallons a day.
That is like dumping out all of the oil leaked by the Exxon Valdez every 2.5 days. Keep in mind that the oil well began blowing oil into the Gulf of Mexico a month ago.
31 days, 4 million gallons a day, you can do the math. That's now over ten times what the Exxon Valdez leaked.
But BP's boss thinks that is a tiny amount of oil.
In the meantime, BP is using the Coast Guard as their personal goon squad to prevent reporters from gathering first-hand reports on the damage wrought by BP's little oil spill.
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BP and their lackeys in the Coast Guard are claiming "safety" as the reason.
Bullshit.
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It just shows the trend of big business not giving a rats ass on public opinion, enviromental safety or even the rule of law in some cases. Over the decades punishment and/or fines have become a normal operating cost for them, therefore their arrogence rises to the point where they know they can purchase their way out of trouble without even having to put much of a spin on things. Ignore it or outright lie is the S.O.P.
Allan
I never figured the Coast Guard would be kowtowing to pirates and obeying their whims.
Perhaps we need new management over there. Perhaps taken from the Navy. Seems like they could use a little discipline.
Great job by those reporters, too. Very, very obedient.
An actual reporter might have said, go ahead and arrest me! Pulitzer stuff, there!
The case would never get to court, and BP would be paying out for that arrest, too.
I think the reporter did the right thing. This way, the crew came back with the footage. If they had been arrested, BP's goons would have wiped the camera's drive.
to add to Nangleators comment, the American press has fail the American public in a grand way. remember when the press as an entity could topple a President. I have seen the White House press corps stand up and applaude G.W. before his session with them. I was sickened. A President should be ever so wary of the press....The press has had their teeth pulled and were de-nutted in the process...Allan
Best guess as to BP's name change? I have June of next year.
NanG, that won't do shit for BP. Blackwater changed their name to Xe and look what good it did for them. Even the Wingnuts who love them some war crimes still call them Blackwater.
Allen, nobody gets assigned to the White House Press Corps unless either they are the idiot offspring of the publisher's sister or they proved otherwise that they are retarded. It's just how it works nowadays.
Nangleator--
"I never figured the Coast Guard would be kowtowing to pirates and obeying their whims."
Presumably you weren't around during Prohibition. I had a grandfather who was a federal judge in Savannah and a great-uncle who was the sheriff of Dade County (Miami), and in those days they both bought their personal liquor from the Coast Guard.
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