Unfortunately this problem is less like cleaning up a park and more like having a baby. It's going to take a LONG time and a LOT of $$$ to send this baby to college.
Hmmm, not sure how I feel about this. While I'm all in favor of helping with the clean up, BP should be paying for the whole damn mess. And I can't help but feel that they'll somehow use efforts such as these to try and weasel out or lessen the amount they have to pay.
I understand the sentiment entirely. There is noooo way they'll ever cover the costs and secondly they'll never be held to account for the folks who have lost their sources of income.
Just recently watched a doc called Crude, about the ongoing "spill" in Ecuador. And the local, indigenous population's fight to hold Texaco and now Chevron accountable for the environmental damage and illness that's been caused. Leaves me convinced that in the end, it's the people living on the coasts who are going to end up paying the most in the long run.
Fact. Let's not gloss over the fact that they have to undo a law that caps their responsibilities for the spill (created by Bush Sr. after Exxon Valdez) and making the claims against BP retroactively payable. That's a big hill to climb in an election year in which Republicans appear to have traction.
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P.S. Love Colbert's spin on this, as usual.
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Leaves me convinced that in the end, it's the people living on the coasts who are going to end up paying the most in the long run.
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That's a big hill to climb in an election year in which Republicans appear to have traction.
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