Oh the Irony

[LittleFuzzy]

I can't wait to see what the Gulf is like in August when they finally stop the spill. Seriously. This is unprecedented. Its like something the old Soviet Union would do, like dry up the Aral Sea or something. I once wrote in the only ACC pages that Yes, Sometimes The Sky Does Fall. Is there anyone here that imagined, before now, a simple exploratory well could end up with an accident so fully disastrous? I never imagined it. I had <gasp> more faith than that in both our coprporate overlords and in the government. I never imagined they would be completely powerless to stop a gigantic oil leak like this. I have to say it again: W.T.F???

I don't know about comparing it to the Aral Sea but yeah, kinda astounded that one non-production well does this sort of damage.

Dread seems confused by the frivolousness of the current system, instead of how individuals are shielded for chasing the almighty dollar.

You can't ignore one while trying to address the other in a systemic way.

I think, they were think more about suing the decision makers - the people who actually gave the command to forgo security measures.

You can think that all you want, the class-action lawyers know better. The decision-makers have enough money to hire their own lawyers to keep the thing going for a decade. Way more lucrative to hit a bunch of the workers as individuals.