7 Stupidest Statements Made About the BP Gulf Oil Spill
 

7. Rush Limbaugh: Environmentalists probably blew up the oil rig

6. Rep. Taylor Compares Oil Slick to Chocolate Milk

5. Sarah Palin Promotes Offshore Drilling As Massive Oil Leak Continues

4. Bill Kristol Says Offshore Drilling Should be Brought Closer to Land

3. T. Boone Pickens: "All of that will get cleaned up and we'll be back"

2. Tony Hayward, CEO of BP: "What the hell did we do to deserve this?"

1. Rush Limbaugh: Oil Spill is as "Natural as the Ocean Water is."

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Keep in mind, they couldnt put the rig any closer to our shore (its 50 miles out) becuse our entire coast is protected region (national widlife refuge waters)

according to what i read the owner of the oil rig saved $500K on a security valve that is mandatory everywhere in the world but in the U.S.

and it gets really ironic when you read their statements about environment safety: http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Environment-81.html

It should also be noted that Shell and other companies install it regularly in the US even though its not mandatory, BP however, does not install them because its 500k and its "too expensive.

Oh that Rush Limbaugh certainly is a humorous little devil isn't he?

You'd think after being on the air for that many years you couldn't get any funnier.

500k too expensive for a company posting massive profits...crazy

creepy....

Seriously, 500k to them is nothing...

i have a feeling it's going to mean a lot to them very soon.

Number 7 may not be that far fetched.

BUt...

that's $500k per offshore platform, BP probably has 100s of them, if not 1000s

1000s x $500k adds up... :2 cents:

some people really are just going to have to die off before any real change can happen. Fucking dinosaurs:321GFY

You mean was.

You won't have that problem any longer.
:disgust

just before the incident BP has a announced a 6.2 BILLION profit in the first quarter of 2010 :2 cents:

Yea, the problem isn't drilling it's not having effective primary and secondary emergency contingency plans for the inevitable screw up.


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Great news! I'm assuming that means they are funding the whole cleanup then, and there won't be any tax money wasted on this?

An oil rig without a BOP? Oh lolz...