The thing is that it's not incompetence. This is criminal negligence. This was completely avoidable, but BP was too cheap and greedy and made TransOcean & Haliburton skip steps and use inferior materials which is the direct cause of this spill.
We will pay for this. Large corporations use the feds like an insurance company in times of major crisis.
Your tax dollars, in the end, will pay for the criminal negligence of a company who cared more about their bottom line than disrupting every major ecosystem in the gulf and beyond.
If people were not losing their jobs, and states were not losing tourist dollars, you can bet BP and the feds would be moving even slower.
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Date: 2010-06-17 10:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-17 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-17 03:18 pm (UTC)Your tax dollars, in the end, will pay for the criminal negligence of a company who cared more about their bottom line than disrupting every major ecosystem in the gulf and beyond.
If people were not losing their jobs, and states were not losing tourist dollars, you can bet BP and the feds would be moving even slower.