Bloody Polluter Day
Today is the anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944, but it will now be remembered in Okaloosa County as the day the oil came ashore.
Instead of the “Jolly Roger”, we should hoist the “Smirking Tony” [I wish] and call it Bloody Polluter not Billy Bowlegs.
To replace the landing of the pirates we could construct an old fashioned oil derrick and put it on a pontoon boat to slam into the Landing with people dressed in black wet suits swarming ashore over and under a boom. Instead of fireworks, we could move the derrick to the barge in the Sound and burn it along a few selected effigies of politicians who backed drilling in the Gulf.
We have consistently voted against off-shore drilling. We make no money from drilling in the Gulf. We are 158 miles away from the well. None of that matters because we have oil on our beaches. Don’t try to tell us that this can be done safely, because it can’t. None of the regulations mattered, and no one was bothered about the possible cost if the well blew out. The people who did this proved that they are incapable of controlling the situation. The corporations failed and the governments failed because of greed, so, until there is a proven cure for greed, no drilling.
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Agreed. The only “safe” way to do this is not to do this. Too much is at risk, and greed (along with the nature of corporations) drives risky behavior.
BTW and OT, Google reports problems with Blogger in “isolated” areas. Mine is an “isolated” area; the blog is visible but I cannot post, and most of the time I cannot comment either. I always knew that someday, blogging would teach me patience…
If “best practices” had been used, this wouldn’t have happened, so what the hell good are they. They cost money that people aren’t willing to spend because it cuts into short term profits.
OT: Yeah, there have been a number of people complaining about it as I read the blogs this morning. Sounds like a node got whacked and they are in the process of redistributing the load.
Hmm, they now say they have fixed it.
Dreadful news, Bryan. I’m so awfully sorry….
Pirates, indeed.
Maybe if we take the tar balls and slag from coal mines and dump them on the Mall in DC, some of the people in Washington would understand what they think people should put up with in the name of “energy”.