[ale] [OT] cartoon on BP spill blame

[Geoffrey]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com 
> <mailto:jlightner at water.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Even if one agrees that we're consuming too much oil is a bad thing I
>     fail to see how that would somehow excuse cutting corners in getting the
>     oil to the consumers.  The issue here wasn't that consumers demanded
>     cheap oil (because guess what we're NOT getting cheap oil!)
> 
> 
> compared to a few years back gas is cheap. They found out that $5/gal is 
> the point where folks start carpooling and taking mass transit.  Tax 
> this stuff to keep it ALWAYS above that point and use the $$ to find 
> better ways to move people and goods around.

Problem with that approach is, most low income earners are not working 
jobs where they can carpool.  Think your wal-mart, McDonalds, mall 
employees.  The impact of increasing the cost of there travel by that 
much will bankrupt them.

>     it is that
>     greedy corporate bastards decided that THEY would get higher pay and
>     perqs in bypassing their own safety measures.   As I noted in a prior
>     post BP actually petitioned the government so BP could vary from its own
>     safety procedures.
> 
> 
> Which is why they should be hung out to dry. Along with the greys that's 
> that approved the changes.

Amen.

>     Now if you want to say that folks who drive off from gas pumps with the
>     pump head still in there care are a problem then that's clearly a
>     consumer issue.   Oddly enough that did generate safety features so that
>     the pump doesn't get yanked along with the car and in fact shuts off the
>     flow of gas so the part of the hose remaining after the detachment
>     doesn't spew gas.   Imagine if they'd put this kind of safety thinking
>     into play for the BP rig (or even if they'd adhered to their own
>     procedures).

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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson