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Also, people talk about ethanol as a solution. It is not currently possible due to the way it's turned into fuel from corn. I'm not going to pretend to be an engineer or suggest that I have a deep grasp of things mechanical and science in general.
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Also, people talk about ethanol as a solution. It is not currently possible due to the way it's turned into fuel from corn. I'm not going to pretend to be an engineer or suggest that I have a deep grasp of things mechanical and science in general.
But I've read enough and seen enough documentaries to support the fact that it takes everyday gasoline or oil to make ethanol, to such a point that it's not much if any part of the solution.
All due respect@flashbanding but I find your completely passive attitude about this disturbing. I don't have a problem with disagreeing, that's not my point. My point is that when a corporation in bed with the government and all of us to some extent, does something through neglect and deceit of this magnitude, can't the public just be in enough agreement on the minuscule idea that they should be held to account in some way beyond what they will already be forced to pay?
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I must agree that much of what the Fed does is ineffective. I'm a small government liberal who wishes that we take the simplest path to providing Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for all. Instead we have a Constitution which has been manipulated over the years - sometimes for good, and sometimes for ill. Depends on your point of view. And a body of law which is incomprehensible, conflicting, intrusive and mostly politically motivated.
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I must agree that much of what the Fed does is ineffective. I'm a small government liberal who wishes that we take the simplest path to providing Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for all. Instead we have a Constitution which has been manipulated over the years - sometimes for good, and sometimes for ill. Depends on your point of view. And a body of law which is incomprehensible, conflicting, intrusive and mostly politically motivated.
Check out this interesting talk on TED - http://tinyurl.com/y8guvvw
How about a fourth branch of government - "The Supreme Council of Common Sense", which can strike down any law that is so obviously stupid and counter-productive to the common good that it can't be allowed to go on the books. I know that's the President's job, but they stopped doing that as soon as TV came along and made political office an unpopularity contest where we vote for the lesser of two or three evils.
I do worry that nuking the spill might make it bigger.
@flashbanding - you're right. Turns out cheap gas isn't so cheap after all.
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I'm linking to a relevant article on what seems to be a good idea on what to do about BP.
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I'm linking to a relevant article on what seems to be a good idea on what to do about BP.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/a_constructive_suggestion_for.php
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why not boycott all the oil companies? -
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why not boycott all the oil companies? -
don't travel, or buy anything either made or transported with the products of the stuff...that includes plastic water pipes...and all electric cabling insulation,
I would give you about 30 days before starving to death...
but you might have gone insane first...
anyone heard of the continuous oil leaks in Nigeria - or the 120 deaths from the blow-outs/explosions there?
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thought not.
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Government keeps the planes in the air, the water and food safe to consume, keeps our cars from blowing up and tries to keep Wall Street from shooting off their toes and ours.
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Government keeps the planes in the air, the water and food safe to consume, keeps our cars from blowing up and tries to keep Wall Street from shooting off their toes and ours.
Legal standards and enforcement do work. The current oversight was inadequate and too friendly with the companies involved in this mess. The FAA requires redundancy for all critical mechanical functions. It seems to me that someone in the food chain there would have asked the question, "hey, what if the blow out valve fails?" They probably did and were waived off as paranoid. Blow out valves never fail. Or do they?
It sounds like any big city Fire Marshall has more authority and responsibility than the Feds have over oil production.
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And do what? Buy Exxon? All of these oil companies have been criminally negligent in how they do business. All of them are guilty. Some just get the attention when the big catastrophes happen. Better strategy is to cut way down on use of fossil fuels all together, support alternative energy development. Ride the bike, car-pool, think about what one consumes...
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I feel sorry for the people who own or run BP stations. But if I buy BP gasoline, then I am supporting the demand for their product. Since they seem to be criminally irresponsible in the creation of BP gasoline, I cannot enable their poor business and stewardship judgement.
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I feel sorry for the people who own or run BP stations. But if I buy BP gasoline, then I am supporting the demand for their product. Since they seem to be criminally irresponsible in the creation of BP gasoline, I cannot enable their poor business and stewardship judgement.
The US military has a huge contract with BP and cannot cancel it for lack of suitable replacement vendors.
The end result of this mess must be a new agency which oversees the drilling, refinement and delivery of petroleum products which has the same standards and powers as the FAA. Now in addition to "too big to fail", we have "too big to f*ck up".
You got to wonder, why didn't they use two blow out valves? Even cars have emergency brakes.
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I stated-where possible-because I know that we can only do so much but we can do something. I completely agree with developing alternate fuels but oil goes to a bunch of things besides engines. What I want is blood! It takes a lot to piss me off but rendering an entire echo system null and void does the trick.
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a boycott is a novel idea, in principle, but the reality of it is that it'd never work......too many fingers in BP's collective pie to cover all the bases, really. the smarter idea would be to aggresively support and enact legislation designed to A) research and develop an efective means and strategy to END the use of oil as our primary fuel source, i.e alternative energy sources....and B) finally get interested enough and give a damn enough, as a society, to TAKE OUR POWER BACK, stop letting the greedy, the rich and the megalomaniacal people/corporations of the world control our lives and turning the earth into a f*****g toilet. Stand up, vote and put people in charge (people like us!) who will change things and stop furthering the status quo. Enact HARSH laws that penalize "Big Oil" for monumental f*ck-ups like this one.........That's the only way thing's will ever change.............Hence, my decision when i reached voting age to NEVER vote for one of the 2 major political parties, and ALWAYS cast my vote for a 3rd party candidate.......y'know, somebody different than the cookie cutter OLD/RICH/WHITE/MALE guys who've always called the shots....
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Wow, my post dissapeared. *sigh*
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Wow, my post dissapeared. *sigh*
I was wondering if we needed to boycott Saudi oil, since they are one of the biggest violators of human rights. How about Chavez? I believe that oil is, at this point in time a necissary evil. Is this the moment where we need to brew our own biodisel or ethanol? With a slight modification to our vehicles this would be possible. (A future project for me. I hear that kudzu makes a good ethanol....)
I am tired of the oil scandals myself, I would rather see us produce renewable energy locally.
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Maybe. Ideally we would finally learn from this and go to using alternative energy (finally)! We'll still need oil to create products until we find an alternative, but we need more agree phasing of oil in exchange for solar, wind, etc.
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Maybe. Ideally we would finally learn from this and go to using alternative energy (finally)! We'll still need oil to create products until we find an alternative, but we need more agree phasing of oil in exchange for solar, wind, etc.
To learn more about how the BP company and oil in general has helped negatively shape our world, read the great book "All the Shah's Men."
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http://www.bp.com/productslistsearch.do?categoryId=9006961&contentId=7013632
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http://www.bp.com/productslistsearch.do?categoryId=9006961&contentId=7013632
For some reason i can't get it fixed in the main part.
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Sure. can we include Halliburton oil as well?? you know they are involved in this mess, too. and, also d**k Cheny. and the DOT.
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