America... America...
America, FUCK YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,
America, FUCK YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, FUCK YEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, FUCK YEAH!
What you going to do when we come for you now,
it's the dream that we all share; it's the hope for tomorrow
Isn't this the part in the movie where representatives of all the countries meet at the "Tribunal of Nations" -- then while everyone is speaking loudly, the American guy comes in and bangs on the table and says "Gentlemen, Gentlemen, if we don't solve this problem...Earth as we know it...MAY PERISH!"
You know, we really need offshore oil resources (our own, not just other countries') to ease transition to alternative-energy infrastructure.
Too bad that it's now effectively dead for another generation.
But this was royally fucked up. The Minerals Management Service of the Interior Department is massively corrupt. Drilling and extraction safeguards were lax, unenforced, or nonexistent. The technology exists for autonomously functioning blowout preventers (in other words, they fucking WORK even if the rig explodes)--Britain and other countries insist on them. Halliburton likely cut corners cementing the well, which was the proximate cause of the blowout.
And make no mistake: all this talk about lawsuits and fixing blame is WORTHLESS. The maximum possible expenses of this disaster have already been figured into what we will pay for petroleum products in decades to come. I repeat--what WE, you and I, not BP, not Transocean, not Halliburton, will pay.
Legislation to ban offshore drilling is window dressing, but it's inevitable. Where is the legislation to further speed adoption of distributed rooftop solar, now a mature and cost-competitive technology? How soon will I be able to sell my surplus solar power to the utility at market rates, less a small amount for maintenance and upgrading the power-line network?
I couldn't care less. It serves all those dumb asses along the gulf coast right for voting in idiot rebublicans who allow this shoddy shit to go down. I almost hope thier beaches are covered in tar for millenia. Fuck 'em.
First of all we should all adjust to the fact this could be the next K/T event on the planet. (Don't know what that is? Google it)
Secondly, blame the oil companies, the GOP or whoever but make damn sure you take a look out the windows and count the number of cars and trucks driving by. America wants cheap and plentiful oil and the oil companies are more than happy to provide it at any cost. So by all means blame Obama for saying oil rigs are safer than ever two weeks before this thing blew up, blame the GOP and BP all you want to.
And if you drive you damn well better take some ownership for this as well.
I don't drive. I did however, fly from Denver to South Carolina last night. In two weeks it'll be Atlanta, and then Boston the week after that. Guess I'll shut up now.
@16 Yeah, that's right, everybody is a part of the problem. Except that the reality is that the American public is not going to live sustainably unless there is a scientific silver-bullet that solves everything, there is a total collapse of industry or a fascist police state forces everyone for the sake of the survival of humanity, most likely with the exception that the upper-class elite will still get to stay at their current standard of living.
So, think about that before you try to guilt-trip everyone for just trying to survive in a system they can't control. The only way to solve this problem is to make 6 billion poor and middle-class live in a fucking yurt. Taking the bus won't solve shit.
You too, Cato. Even if you don't drive, your bike needs oil too, and it wasn't delivered to the store where you bought it by mule. Same for everything else you buy.
I've got a couple hours to kill before the "festivities" get under way, so I'm gonna jump in on Matt's side here. You don't use anything made of plastic, Cato? Where do you think that stuff comes from?
Did you read my fucking post? Which solution do you advocate? Is there an alternate solution that I hadn't considered? Under what scenario do you believe the general public would voluntarily give up oil?
If there is any reality that anyone needs to accept, it's that faggy forum posts will not convince people to take their fingers off the pump, a gun pointed to their head will.
By the way, I have a very hard time believing that our military can't find a way to stop this, somehow. This is a huge emergency, chop chop Obama. I think I've had it with this president
@27 The mission of our military is to destroy and learn ways to better destroy, not fitting for this situation here.
Yes the Navy does have men and equipment that can work at those depths, but such things are highly classified, and to use them in such an internationally spot lit arena would damage "national security".
These are not justifications; they are statements of fact.
America, FUCK YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,
America, FUCK YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, FUCK YEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, FUCK YEAH!
What you going to do when we come for you now,
it's the dream that we all share; it's the hope for tomorrow
Good thing the ocean is big.
Isn't this the part in the movie where representatives of all the countries meet at the "Tribunal of Nations" -- then while everyone is speaking loudly, the American guy comes in and bangs on the table and says "Gentlemen, Gentlemen, if we don't solve this problem...Earth as we know it...MAY PERISH!"
Too bad that it's now effectively dead for another generation.
But this was royally fucked up. The Minerals Management Service of the Interior Department is massively corrupt. Drilling and extraction safeguards were lax, unenforced, or nonexistent. The technology exists for autonomously functioning blowout preventers (in other words, they fucking WORK even if the rig explodes)--Britain and other countries insist on them. Halliburton likely cut corners cementing the well, which was the proximate cause of the blowout.
And make no mistake: all this talk about lawsuits and fixing blame is WORTHLESS. The maximum possible expenses of this disaster have already been figured into what we will pay for petroleum products in decades to come. I repeat--what WE, you and I, not BP, not Transocean, not Halliburton, will pay.
Legislation to ban offshore drilling is window dressing, but it's inevitable. Where is the legislation to further speed adoption of distributed rooftop solar, now a mature and cost-competitive technology? How soon will I be able to sell my surplus solar power to the utility at market rates, less a small amount for maintenance and upgrading the power-line network?
Secondly, blame the oil companies, the GOP or whoever but make damn sure you take a look out the windows and count the number of cars and trucks driving by. America wants cheap and plentiful oil and the oil companies are more than happy to provide it at any cost. So by all means blame Obama for saying oil rigs are safer than ever two weeks before this thing blew up, blame the GOP and BP all you want to.
And if you drive you damn well better take some ownership for this as well.
So, think about that before you try to guilt-trip everyone for just trying to survive in a system they can't control. The only way to solve this problem is to make 6 billion poor and middle-class live in a fucking yurt. Taking the bus won't solve shit.
If there is any reality that anyone needs to accept, it's that faggy forum posts will not convince people to take their fingers off the pump, a gun pointed to their head will.
By the way, I have a very hard time believing that our military can't find a way to stop this, somehow. This is a huge emergency, chop chop Obama. I think I've had it with this president
Yes the Navy does have men and equipment that can work at those depths, but such things are highly classified, and to use them in such an internationally spot lit arena would damage "national security".
These are not justifications; they are statements of fact.