BP caught using altered image of command center

Resources are the key to economic success. With the last one hundred and twenty years providing cheap fossil fuels to spur an economic growth unequaled in human history, the beginning of the end of that era is now upon us. It is a crossroads of time, we shall either forgo fossil fuels and with some sacrifice and pain by all and then move on in a future with promise or we continue on our present path where resources become fewer prices rise uncontrollably and economic collapse follows. This is the time to alter our way of life, embrace clean fuel technology even at a higher price initially. With scale of manufacturing clean fuels will compete and beat fossil fuels very quickly, a matter of no more than 15 years. The atmosphere gains as we stop increasing Co2. Economies around the world will be spurred on as the same manufacturing and industrial processes that facilitated the high tech boom will happen in a high tech clean energy economy. The world wins, humanity wins. The oil companies lose. The governments of the world who wish to save their economies had better come to the realization that energy and economic success are as intertwined as E=Mc2. Government stimulus monies around the world right now should be ushering in the next great economic leap for mankind, clean energy. Clean planet, healthy population.

Thomas McMahon
Millis Ma

wow... way to vote everyone's comments down... how much is BP paying you guys to support them?

It seems that people will complain about anything and everything once their minds are set on hating someone or something. This is precisely why progress can not be made toward bettering ourselves and the world in which we live. How about using our time and knowledge about what has happened in the Gulf to educate our communities about ways to reduce dependency on petroleum products rather than sitting and waiting for yet another event to complain about and sue over.

I am not sure why this is a big deal. It was merely an aesthetic choice by the photographer or website designer. Its hard to find a picture on any website that hasn't been doctored a bit. Some people will find any reason to attack BP.

Wouldn't it have been easier to put a few underwater shots on the screens for five seconds than to doctor the photo?

Now I'm not advocating doctoring news images but I'll have to go with the unpopular opinion that it looks like a photographer was just trying to make an esthetically more pleasing image.

There isn't anything nefarious or deceptive about the alteration. The blank screens were just replaced by copies of the other screens. No data of significance was added or removed. Models on magazine covers get more photoshop work than that.
It's common practice in marketing and PR photos from just about any company or organization.

We know they are trying to hide the truth!

They should be supporting independent efforts to document the problem so we can have as much data as possible to fix it.

what a surprise .... not!!

Interesting note: There has been an on-going issue of a MASSIVE oil spill etc for about 50 years in Nigeria ... We need to focus on purging the corruptness - not because it happened by our front door, but because its happening everywhere they go. Now its happened to us and were finally waking up ... We need to think about this guys ... seriously ... this issue is waaaay deeper than just the disaster happening to the wild life etc. Its not just about our Gulf - we need to take a global approach to it & expose their corruption everywhere - lets raise some awareness!! :) Lets save the world, not just our Gulf!!

Kill them all!, and let the cookie monster sort them out! Fuck B.P. and the pool boys their wives rode in on!

The control room of BP is Satan watching dolphins, baby turtles, whales, and human workers dying.

shady shady

AAAHHHh! GUILTY ! They lie even when their lips Aren't moving . Once Exxon takes over BP , they will be no different .

its always worse than British Petroleum tells us......Oil is nothing but greed....Americans are interesting they knew every single sexual detail about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky but yet we have no idea what is going on in the Gulf of Mexico....we can't even get close enough to take photos.

Conservativeconjob, once again spews his discussion stopping conservative propaganda. I swear if I didn’t know they would never hire him, I would say he is a BP employee. Seek heil Conservacon!!! No one should even address this guy. If you want to know what he thinks, ask Karl Rove. Put him in the ash heap with jj.

Nothing but smoke and mirrors here folks nothing to see move along nothing to see here folks move along.

I don't think this issue needs to be handled with some lame ass beat poetry, save that shit for the coffee shop or whatever "Slam" you attend.

I knew it....I called it. They are lying through their teeth. The problem is not solved at all.

This land is your land, this land is my land, they screwed up our coast, now we will screw them, just seize their assists, socialize the oil industry, if Venezuela can so it so can we!

As I went walking, along the Gulf Coast, I looked around me, the oil beach I see, it got me angry, then it occurred to me, socialize the oil companies.

This land is your land, this land is my land, we have the power, lets use our back hand, we’ll take them over, it’s called democracy, this land belongs to you and me.

When we take over, there is no profits, the price of oil, will start to plummet, we keep our oil, we share with no one else, this crude belongs to you and me.

We use our oil, we use it wisely, then make renewables, to run the highways, to run our cities, to fuel our industry, then dump oil on the ash heap of history.

This land is your land, this land is my land, from California, to the New York Island, from the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters, this land BELONGS to you and me.

Apparently, BP wants to leave the cap on and plug the well to hide the amount of oil that flows freely. The lower the oil output the lower the fine BP will be. If they never get accurate flow from a free flowing well, they (BP) will down play the amount in the courts for many years.

cuz everything is supposed to look like war games if your the real deal.