The Official Unlimited Oil Spill Thread!

[Doktor Howl]

We can have our space men fix it!
Send in the space men!!


I love the space men 

They're all working as celebrity board members for banks, now.

Sorry about that.

[Adios]

We can have our space men fix it!
Send in the space men!!


I love the space men 

They're all working as celebrity board members for banks, now.

Sorry about that.

I knew several who were working for Martin Marietta with six figure salaries and very clean desktops.

[Doktor Howl]

We can have our space men fix it!
Send in the space men!!


I love the space men 

They're all working as celebrity board members for banks, now.

Sorry about that.

I knew several who were working for Martin Marietta with six figure salaries and very clean desktops.

So I'm sticking to my earlier suggestion, since the space men all ran away to be whores.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yesterday on the news over my delicious gyro at a tiny happy Greek place here in Providence, I overheard that the US is looking into criminal charges against BP. I haven't looked for the source yet...but I can't think of a better way for America to get out of debt than to sue the pants off of a foreign oil corporation.

God, that would be great!

[Remington]

Fine the everliving fuck out of these guys, and bring them up on every criminal charge you can get.

[Doktor Howl]

Yesterday on the news over my delicious gyro at a tiny happy Greek place here in Providence, I overheard that the US is looking into criminal charges against BP. I haven't looked for the source yet...but I can't think of a better way for America to get out of debt than to sue the pants off of a foreign oil corporation.

God, that would be great!

All it costs to get out of debt is 2000 miles of coastal wetlands! 

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Yesterday on the news over my delicious gyro at a tiny happy Greek place here in Providence, I overheard that the US is looking into criminal charges against BP. I haven't looked for the source yet...but I can't think of a better way for America to get out of debt than to sue the pants off of a foreign oil corporation.

God, that would be great!

All it costs to get out of debt is 2000 miles of coastal wetlands! 

Meh, who needs wetlands anyway... all those birds, fish, snakes, etc and their entitlement attitudes!

[Eater of Clowns]

Frankly I'm amazed BP has managed to get me sympathetic toward jellyfish, one of the most singularly awful creatures on this planet and all around horror filled misery factories.

[AFK]

BP will live to drill another day.  I'd put $20 on them getting fined from here to tomorrow and still turning a profit.  We're so addicted to oil and cheap energy that losing all of these wetlands and animals won't mean jack.  Even the stories of fishing families going belly up, won't matter.  This will fade into the aether when it is done much like Valdez did.  It's just a punchline now about a drunk sailor. 

[tyrannosaurus vex]

well to be fair, nobody ever really cared about alaska.

[AFK]

Idaho about that. 

[Jasper]

As always, there will turn out to be ONE person, acting alone, who is to blame for all of it.

That person will be harangued, excoriated, demonized, and eventually, ignored.  

Then we'll go on doing what we do.  And we'll keep coming to this fork in the road.  Over and over.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

As always, there will turn out to be ONE person, acting alone, who is to blame for all of it.

That person will be harangued, excoriated, demonized, and eventually, ignored.  

Then we'll go on doing what we do.  And we'll keep coming to this fork in the road.  Over and over.

There is no spoon fork.

[Golden Applesauce]

After the Exxon Valdez spill, the judge set the punitive fine to $5 billion - one year's worth of Exxon profits.  Exxon fought the fine all the way down to $507 million, or about 1/10th of the original.   So I don't think we'll be getting much out of BP.

Fun fact: JP Morgan created the first credit default swap to deal with the $4.8 billion loan they initially made to Exxon for it to pay the fine.

reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill#Litigation_and_cleanup_costs

[Reginald Ret]

Haven't you heard? corporations are people now too!
They got all kinds of rights now.

So maybe, just maybe the person being punished will be a fall-corp in stead of a fall-guy.