Obama Says that BP is Responsible and BP will Pay the Bill

Excellent comment sir! You have completely sized up the situation with the least number of required words, and you have also slam-pegged my intellect-O-meter all the way to the right and buried the needle. Be advised the idea has been tabled that the oil companies were invested heavily in Bernie Madoff Incorporated and may be as poor as we are.

Just a thought.

But the wildlife they didn't pay no taxes.

Not if it hits the shore and ruins the commercial fishing.

Someone has to pay for the people and equipment who are pulled away from other jobs. The States are all broke and people do not work for free.

Will people work for health care and the squares a day? It's time to pull out Plan R => Raid the Rescue Missions for Workers (part of Plan W).

I have worked with unmotivated workers before. NOTHING get accomplished.

Well, the trick to that is to pay some motivational speakers like uhm, Dick Cheney. You can also do what they do here in Virginia, take a football star and plug him into a vice president of something so he can stand on the hill and be an inspiration to the other lesser robots!

How about the Massey Mine Guy? He is one hell of a speaker. He will tell how oil spills help the environment.

I wouldn't mine hearing that myself!

Change can happen rapidly if we simply use market forces.

What if the government simply declared that they were going to change their entire fleet of cars to electric?

The issue is that companies are just standing around waiting for someone or something to happen. The electric "pumps" to support electric cars will not be built because there aren't enough electric cars to justify it....but no one is building electric cars because there are no "electric" pumps! It's a free market Catch 22.

So we have both sides of the equation just....waiting.

Which is precisely why the government needs to jump in and say, "Fine. We'll buy all the fucking electric cars. We'll be the first ones to put in a hugeorder to get this scale of economy ball rolling. We'll be the first customers and we'll give huge gov contracts to whoever wants to set up and build the damn pumps too."

Otherwise we're going to see 50 more years of companies standing around and waiting for something (cars or pumps) to get built FIRST and then they'll all jump on the band wagon.

Kind of like the touch screens for the iPod and motion controls for the Wii.

Notice how it didn't take a 50+ year roll out in order for touch screens to become popular and commonplace? The trick was that someone had to dive in and just do it. Apple did...and now everyone is making touch screens. Practically happened over night. Same with motion-controlled gaming. The Wii sold out and now everyone is racing to put their own motion-controlled games on the market. It doesn't take a 75+ year roll out. It just takes one company (or gov contract) to jump start the entire industry.

And then we can get off our dependence on oil.

You do know that the clean technology has been available since the Nixon years. There were electric cars, Alcohol cars, All kinds of cars which were tabled by the money from big oil. I guess I am talking about the brush with the Bush and several, actually a lot of others.
Money can crush the life out of every thing on the earth. I wonder where Cheney's kids and grandkids will live once the earth is a mess. Don't they see that the future should not be for sale?

They can live on the Moon, watch the Earth explode. Earth explodes, no more gravity locking the Moon, super powerful engines moves Moon to Mars orbit, where they terraform Mars, sowing seeds from the seed repository. That is, if the Earth explodes on its own. An idea has been tabled already to stop the Gulf oil leak with a small nuke sealant. That might do it, let the super cold ocean water into the earth's core & lava. They already built engines for pushing the Moon.

Nobody lives forever. You're only allotted so many questions per day here so make the next one harder pleez.

They are cleaning it up or trying to at least contain it. The problem is they can not close the hole and it is gushing about 5000 barrels a day into the water. It may take over two months to close the hole unless" someone" comes up with a stellar idea.

It's their own dumb fucking fault for not having a Plan B. "If the seafloor closure device doesn't close automatically THEN WHAT THE FUCK DO WE DO?!?!?!" Should have been the first thing someone asked the day the first one was installed.

If I was the one building this shit I would have said "Okay, here's the scenario. We had five oil rigs all sinking to the bottom of the ocean. All five's automatic pumping closure plug things fail and can't be closed manually. What do we do?"

Yet APPARENTLY no one ever even asked what would happen if just ONE couldn't be closed automatically or manually.

Or scratch my last, Someone did ask. In fact more safety features are MANDATED in Europe on the same exact things. But oil lobbyists in OUR country voted it out of existence when those questions I said were asked.

And no one batted an eye....

It is time for the united states to wake up to energy conservation. We can change the way we live enough to protect the host.

Sad but true. That's exactly what happened with Exxon-Valdez.

so....after the exxon valdez incident..did you stop using oil????????????

kinda get why these people are getting away with it???

conserve..ride a bike..drive less...

Americans will be treated better than scroungy old Indians. But in case we aren't we need a Plan W, a series of protests where we all stand an Wave good-bye to the entire eastern seaboard, beaches and fishing industry. They're all going down now, all going down, did I type all going down? Soon as all the Cuba-based drillers have some of their pipe shafts sheared off by another Haiti quake yes yes yes I can see it now.

Plan W also includes Writing a hip new song and Writing a congressman who isn't in Big Oil's pocket. In the event of failure, Plan W finishes with Writhing in agony at a beach beside beached Whales and the occasional Walrus family. Maybe we can hire some real old people and Wipe oil sludge on their chests, arms & legs, and have them lay down beside the Walruses and Whales, good photo-ops can be priceless. //

I got it! Someone phone William Shatner. He's the right age and looks like a Walrus too! Yeah, get some Star Quality going here. Let's see, what did I leave out? YES! A close-up of Shatner's face and a tear rolling down his cheek. It worked real good for the old Indian chief dude, very effective.