The containment cap solution, the latest in a series of attempts by BP to staunch the 47-day-old gusher of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, is said to be capturing "some oil." How much is not clear.
The Gulf Oil Spill hits Florida: a plastic bottle coated with oil at Pensacola, 06/06/10. (photo: Getty Images)
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Not much folks can do, thanks to the incompetence of the coast guard, BP, the federal government, et al. The booms being put in place are NOT according to the training received for these emergencies and therefore are stopping nothing.
The entire event is nothing more than a giant cluster f---.
Scoff-law multinationals have had their way with the developing nations for generations, bribing, suborning and co-opting governments for their natural resources, and when that fails, sending in the Marines.
Now that resources are difficult to exploit, BP has brought this management style to the US. How does it feel, America, to be dissed like a banana republic, and to see your government paralyzed by Big Oil?
When Obama says that BP will have to pay every dime it owes to the people of the Gulf, what about the promises the company made to get those leases?
Lots of folks need to go to jail, and BP should disgorge all profits where they didn't execute their sworn duty to protect and defend.
If this government won't protect the environment and the citizens, get rid of it also.
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