BP, you disgust me beyond reason.

The tourist industry is all a lot of places have. It's all fine and well to say you don't like it, but it's the livelihood of many people and they'll likely lose their homes and possibly lives without it. Not every area has businesses to make its local economy go so don't be so insensitive about stuff like that.

The damage done by Hurricane Katrina is effectively over. Only the people dumb enough to want to live below sea level again are having troubles. Another note worthy detail. The Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean are bigger than the area effected by the hurricane. A lot bigger by area and a ****ing lot bigger by volume. Not to mention the fact that chemical dispersants are causing it to rain oil inland further increasing the range of the damage. I'd say I was definitely right in putting them in totally different leauges.

 

Okay I think this effectivly sums up how we all see the CEO of BP right now...

 

Um...yeah that might be true for a lot of places, but definitely not the areas affected by the oil spill. And it doesn't matter whether i like it or not. My point was, it wasn't really an effective supporting point...

Well of course, if you look at it from the standpoint that the hurricane isnt continuing to go on, but thousands of people are losing their homes and being thrown on the street. I worked for a Human Rights organization last year dealing with the aftermath of hurricane Katrina...I still recieve updates about the tons of damage many of my former coworkers are dealing with.

 

Yeah, who wants to go to the Florida coast for vacation, or see the birthplace of many jazz elements or anything like that.

Thousands of people are also losing their businesses, effectively losing their homes as well. And I'm pretty sure we all know how the job market in the US is looking right now.
I worked in an area destroyed by Katrina with Habitat for Humanity, I rebuilt houses for people. Homes you can rebuild over time. Oceans, however, cannot be cleaned so quickly or easily, and BP is not helping anyone by burning things alive. They are effectively destroying the Gulf's ecosystem entirely.

 

This thread is half a kilometer of mind rape.

 

But the ocean can be cleaned up.

Lives lost in Katrina can't.

 

More lives have been lost in the oil spill even if they are not human lives. And honestly the deaths of Katrina could have mostly been avoided if people weren't stupid enough to build the city under the water. The levees were shoddily built and people were taken advantage of. It would have happened eventually regardless of the hurricane, people try to say it was bad luck, but it was straight up bad planning.

 

Long term illnesses caused by ingesting animals or water that have traces of oil suck pretty bad too.
Especially if it can be passed on.
And the ocean will never be back to the way it was, there will always be some trace of the oil, no matter how small.

Not to mention the people that flat out ignored the evacuation orders and refused to leave. They knew the storm was coming, and they knew it was going to be bad.

 

Hey, guys.

Let's just agree that they're both horrible tragedies about which not enough was done up-front.

And end this pissing match before it builds up enough piss to create a piss tsunami and kill a couple thousand more people.

 

Let the piss-war continue.