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Old 05-16-2010, 05:48 PM   #1
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Default BP says tube successfully inserted back into Gulf leak

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/16/gul...l?eref=time_us

Er, "this just in"...
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Old 05-16-2010, 06:10 PM   #2
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Interesting how its not even a front page story anymore.
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Old 05-16-2010, 11:18 PM   #3
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60 min. had a real good piece on all the happenings before the explosion. bp and transocean are gonna pay big.
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Old 05-18-2010, 08:54 AM   #4
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bp and transocean are gonna pay big.
And so are we.
At the pumps.
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Old 05-18-2010, 09:29 AM   #5
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60 min. had a real good piece on all the happenings before the explosion. bp and transocean are gonna pay big.
Up front maybe. But just like with everything else in that industry they'll pass it along to the consumer and end up making MORE money in the long run and the only ones getting effed in the a will be US.
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Up front maybe. But just like with everything else in that industry they'll pass it along to the consumer and end up making MORE money in the long run and the only ones getting effed in the a will be US.
not if you use less gas.....
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Old 05-18-2010, 10:04 AM   #7
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not if you use less gas.....
There's more to fuel usage than just the gas pump Ed.

I fly a lot for work. While I don't pay for the cost of travel directly, over time the increased cost is communicated on to people within any organization by things like decreased raises, etc.

I heat my house with oil because that's the only way I can where I live so I'm already betting that the cost to heat my house next winter will quadruple or worse and I'm planning accordingly.

Consumer goods are moved by truck and train which use fuel - increased fuel costs = increased prices at other places than the pump.
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Old 05-18-2010, 10:25 AM   #8
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Up front maybe. But just like with everything else in that industry they'll pass it along to the consumer and end up making MORE money in the long run and the only ones getting effed in the a will be US.
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There's more to fuel usage than just the gas pump Ed.

I fly a lot for work. While I don't pay for the cost of travel directly, over time the increased cost is communicated on to people within any organization by things like decreased raises, etc.

I heat my house with oil because that's the only way I can where I live so I'm already betting that the cost to heat my house next winter will quadruple or worse and I'm planning accordingly.

Consumer goods are moved by truck and train which use fuel - increased fuel costs = increased prices at other places than the pump.
Yep...good points
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Old 05-18-2010, 11:37 AM   #9
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tar balls washing up in key west already. fucking entire BP AND Haliburton executive tiers needs to publicly hung on the White House lawn. Literally. That would set a new precedence for fucking with US ecology.
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Old 05-19-2010, 09:13 AM   #10
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60 min. had a real good piece on all the happenings before the explosion. bp and transocean are gonna pay big.
Their executive team took home over 150 million EACH in salaries and bonuses last year. Do you really think they care about our little fines?

They should just measure it onto their cost of doing business. But, doubt it.... it's still not plugged, it's partially contained.
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