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  1. 4re Nut

    4re Nut F1 World Champ

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    #1 4re Nut, Jun 21, 2010
    link (scroll down after click): http://www.businessreport.com/archives/daily-report/2010/jun/21/1688/

     
  2. Craigy

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    #2 Craigy, Jun 21, 2010
    Damn. I think we need to start donating gallon jugs, or perhaps get a few thousand people to donate their living rooms for spill storage. :)
     
  3. SMS

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    #3 SMS, Jun 21, 2010
    I had heard a stat right about the time Obama gave his prime time speech on the spill where some commentator quipped that, "the amount of oil spilled so far would fill up the oval office 22 times!" I thought, damn, is that all? You'd think it was so thick you could walk on the gulf to Mexico the way they were talking...
     
  4. SrfCity

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    #4 SrfCity, Jun 21, 2010
    The government and BP are hiding the true extent of the disaster. I've heard it's 2.5 million gallons a day that they can't stop. Health risks, environmental destruction including chemicals in rain fall that will affect vast swaths of the lower south east, unemployment, loss of tourism, fishery devastation etc., etc. A huge mess with lasting effects.

    The carbon tax will take care of it though ;)
     
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    #5 PSk, Jun 22, 2010
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    Why have many moved on to the clean up costs?, the most pressing matter is to stop the fncken leak!!!!

    Otherwise one day the sea will black ... fnck BP for not knowing and having a couple of hundred real strategies to stop this sort of disaster.
    Pete
     
  6. Gilles27

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    #6 Gilles27, Jun 22, 2010
    That mini-article sounds suspiciously slanted in BP's favor. First of all, they haven't cited any data they used to derive those conclusions. Considering there aren't two "experts" on this planet who have a definitive grasp on how much oil has been spewing out, I don't see where their numbers come from. Second, it's public knowledge that BP has gone into PR mode and begun focusing on spin and damage control. Interesting how it closes with a pat on the back to BP for spending money on cleaning up the mess they caused. As for compensating victims, there are countless business owners (fisherman, hoteliers, restaurant owners, souvenir hawkers, etc.) who have been decimated by this. Many received the first of many promised payments, but after the initial checks there has been nothing. BP is dragging their feet on this as well, and when a schmuck like Hawthorne "gets his life back" in time to go watch his yacht race, it only serves to remind folks of how little the executive level of BP really cares about how this is negatively impacting the lives of so many Gulf Coast residents.

    Comparing the volume of oil leaking to the amount of water delivered by the Mississippi River is ludicrous.
     

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