Originally Posted by will76

I agree 100%



It's foolish to think this could NOT have been prevented. If BP wouldn't have been so greedy and they would have installed the proper safety measures this likely wouldn't have happened. For example. Their "top hat" and other containment devices they tried to use they had to make first. Why didn't they have shit like that already created and on stand by? Why didn't they have a plan B, C or Plan A for that matter. They failed to put the safety devices in place because they were greedy and they failed to have stand by fixes in place. Instead of taking a week to build the shit they would have had it made and ready to use.

It is BP's greed that is more to blame then us consuming oil. Sure we should all push to not use oil, but even if we found alternative entergy for cars and to power our homes, there is still a big need for oil. I don't know if we could ever get 100% off of oil because so it is used to create so many things. Even if we were off of oil 90% we still would need Oil rigs for the other 10%, as long as we need oil rigs, we need oil companies to be RESPONSIBLE and not cut corners trying be greedy. 10Billion in profits wasn't enough they had to cut corners to make more money