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X Prize To Offer Millions For Gulf Oil Cleanup Solution
Jamie noted that X Prize is offering prizes for a solution to the Gulf Coast oil clean up. This is in addition to categories for mapping genomes, making an incredibly fuel efficient car, and exploring the moon's surface with a robotic vehicle.
You only prosecute and jail if something illegal was done, not to prove a point. I'm not saying they didn't do anything illegal, they very well might have. If they didn't though, it's purely a civil matter and should not end in jail time.
SpongeBob and Godzilla should have children, so we can dip an enormous SpongeBob into the spill.
When I first glanced at "mapping genomes" I thought it said "mopping gnomes" and had this RPG inspired vision of gnomes on boats (clockwork/steampunk) using these special oil-soaking mops.
You have become better at Oil Mopping! (28)
Oh boo hoo! BP screwed up so I'm going to jump on the hate bandwagon and pretend that everyone involved needs to be brutally skinned, murdered, and have their genitals flown to all parts of the world...
Because you blame yourself.
How dare we demand accountability, right? I mean, BP is a big corporation, with lots of power, and might makes right, so BP must be right. It is quite unnatural for the weak to attack the strong. The meek will inherit the Earth? Like that's going to happen. The meek will sit down, shut up, and not bother their betters, like they always have.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Their company knowingly violated over 700 safety regulations and they knowingly ignored their own engineers in order to rush the project, Why shouldn't they be held accountable? The 11 deaths that resulted from the explosion alone are a good enough reason to lock these guys in prison let alone the billions of dollars in jobs and the ecosystem they destroyed through negligence.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
This is not the first oil spill in the world. There are companies who do ocean oil cleanup all the time, but can't do it in the U.S. because of EPA regulations. You see, according to the EPA, any water dumped INTO the gulf can't have > 15ppm of oil. A skimmer will suck up oil and water, separate them, then discharge the water. If they can get 90% of the oil out, that's good, right? In the rest of the world, yes. In the world controlled by the EPA, no - they'd rather leave 100% of the oil in the water, rather than allow a skimmer to get most of it.
If you suck dirty water out of the gulf, and put back not-so-dirty water, isn't that better than leaving ALL the dirty water there? Hello, EPA? How long did it take them to waive this STUPID regulation?
I need trepanation like I need a hole in the head.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/30/96831/gops-false-talking-point-jones.html
Better lies, please.
...get to keep all the oil they collect?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq-funds-20100727,0,3856364.story
You see, when all us crazy liberals were saying we were going to Iraq to steal their oil, we were right. That's what we did.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Why is someone OTHER than BP paying for this? This is just like asking for volunteers to help clean the waterfowl etc. To clean this up the BP board should be hauled in (with a gun to their head if needed) and forced to clean it up with their own fucking money and their own hands. WHY tax payers and any other private source is putting one cent into this is beyond me.
They wanted the profit, they can accept the consequences.
Remember this post when your car spring a leak and you don't call the EPA and clean it up right away with the kitty litter you keep in your trunk at all times in case it happens. You do keep kitty litter in your trunk, right? I mean, how irresponsible can you be to not be prepared for a disaster!!! You should be forced to spend every remaining cent in your savings to clean up any accidents you have. You should also be lambasted on the evening news so everyone will be aware of how horrible you are.
I can't be the only one sick of the stupid comments people are making? Basically asking for the heads of people.
Because accidentally elbowing someone in the nose is the same as mowing down thousands with machine gun fire to make a few extra dollars.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Actually, if you bother to read the article you linked to - they are using it in the Gulf. But rant away, it's linkage that makes you look cool and informative - not the contents of the link.