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Fuck BP

I find it rather depressing that the British papers have decided to start defending BP against Barack Obama. I should have seen it coming: it’s never a surprise to see journalists and politicians rally to support the rich and powerful in their hour of need.

Personally I think it’s a good thing that BP is getting a kicking. I don’t know whether they were negligent or just unlucky, but one way or another they have created an environmental catastrophe. If they and every other big company really believed that these kind of accidents represented a genuine threat to their profitability, maybe they would all spend a little more of their vast wealth to make sure that it can’t ever happen again.

On the other hand, if Obama really wants to prove that his concern is the environment and not the midterm elections, it’s not enough to attack BP. He needs to follow it up by giving the same treatment to Chevron, the company that poisoned the inhabitants and fucked up the environment of thousands of square miles of Ecuadorean rainforest. And then he and rest of us need to look at the situation in Nigeria.

The way these companies crap all over the third world shows that they will cut any corner in the search for profit, as long as they can get away with it. Well, this time, BP managed to shit on the doorstep of the most powerful country on earth, and they’re getting the response they deserve.

5 replies on “Fuck BP”

Fuck you BP! No more fucking delicious oysters for anyone living near the coast. Really fucked up big time.

Well it’s different to have oil having a war on you isn’t it? We have lost a lot of men supporting you and please don’t do the if it wasn’t for you you would be speaking german shit. If it wasn’t for us you would be all be speaking French

Um, what the fuck are you talking about? For a start you seem to think I’m American, which I’m not. But even if I was, I’m not sure that the bit about speaking French would make much historical sense.

Last year I went to OSHA, the local news media in Houston Texas, and the Texas Attorney General’s office, warning them that petrochemical safety was a joke and that British Petroleum was an accident looking for a place to happen. Everyone chose to bury their heads in the sand. Well, it looks like they found another place to have an accident doesn’t it? This is what happens when you ignore warnings about a bunch of repeat offenders. See teh link inside the” I told you so” page

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