BP Spills Coffee
With an estimated 56,000-84,000 barrels of oils a day pouring out of the damaged well in the Gulf Coast, and with President Obama poised to address the nation this coming Tuesday, it seems as if we’ve blown past the “worst case” scenario and have careened head-first into the dark gaping maw of disastrous uncertainty.
This is the type of event that changes nations.
BP is doing its best to white-wash the news by imposing virtual marshall law on the Gulf Coast area, forbidding both the curious and the professional from any and all hotspots. BP has even gone so far as to purchase key search words on Google and Yahoo in an attempt to deflect negative press.
Still, pictures of the spill are getting out, and the damage is extensive. The loss of wildlife is disheartening. As of this post, the BP spill is currently standing at 66 million barrels of oil. That’s six times larger than the Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster.
Shoot. I’m not one to really take up arms, march in the street, and rally around a cause, but this disaster is so unprecedented and catastrophic that one would have to be truly dead inside not to recognize the problem and the desperate need for a solution.
If BP can’t control an oil spill, how would they control a cup of spilt coffee?
This would be funny if it weren’t so sad…
Pretty funny stuff. So, so, sad. I read that BP tried to have Twitter shut down a guys account that was mocking them. They are just silly.
I have been asking the question why then can’t shut down the pipline all together. I am sure it has lots of tributaries going into to it but don’t they have a shut off valve on then? Righty tighty, left loosey!