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Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!

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Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!
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RE: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!
May 4, 2010 at 1:14 am
Quote:here the event is being described as "possibly the worst environmental disaster in American history" .


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RE: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!
May 4, 2010 at 2:35 am
we are very very upset that there is a massive oil leak in the Gulf.

We feel for all the shrimps and fishes. I can see BP's spin machine trying it's best not to let this one be named after their company like Exxon Valdez was...

I have read a couple articles that have surfaced saying the BP's saftey record in the Gulf is less than stellar.

This will be devastating, didn't it pass Valdez in a matter of days? I hear it is quickly approaching Kuwait oil fires as the worst oil disaster ever.

A couple days ago fishermen filed the first of what may be many class action lawsuits.

On another note, did you see how much fun Obama had with Leno while hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spewed into the ocean?
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RE: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!
May 4, 2010 at 9:49 am
Can't listen to the oil spill reports without getting teary eyed. I love animals, and this makes me so upset.
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RE: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!
May 4, 2010 at 10:32 am
Big oil spills are just one of the horrible consequences of the fucked-up nature of humans Sad

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RE: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!
May 4, 2010 at 4:29 pm (This post was last modified: May 4, 2010 at 4:40 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
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May 4, 2010 at 4:57 pm
The chemical company I work for makes specialist chemicals for products like these (and hundreds of other chemicals) and going by the sales figures at least we are not making any more money then we were a year ago when the spill didn't happen (I saw the figures of April today). Actually our metalworking fluids made more money than the chemicals that go in detergents.
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RE: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!
May 4, 2010 at 6:45 pm (This post was last modified: May 4, 2010 at 6:46 pm by Paul the Human.)
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May 4, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Rush Limbaugh is a fucking moron but he knows his audience.
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May 18, 2010 at 9:44 am
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RE: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!
May 18, 2010 at 9:57 am (This post was last modified: May 18, 2010 at 9:58 am by Violet.)
I rather can't dislike the Exxon Valdez oil spill much any more... because they've given us more money than the spill took away (due to how long it has taken fro them to pay it out).

Hard to say no to a good 1.5 hundred thousand+ USD to your parents (and a good 45+K to several of your siblings (each), though sadly I wasn't born in time to get it too) from the first batch of payments... and further payments since then. Of course... the herring fishery still hasn't really come back... but the salmon are fine now Smile
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