BP – Beyond Petroleum = Big Trouble

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“At the current flow rate, it would take from two to nearly four years for all the oil to leak from the field if it can’t be stopped.”_________________

The public relations television campaign states that BP now means beyond petroleum no longer appears on air. British Petroleum inescapably and unremittingly is now linked as the culpable corporate criminal of the greatest man made environmental disaster of all time. As confusing as the catastrophe seems, no one can reasonably deny the danger the Gulf of Mexico region has already suffered. The only unanswered aspect is how much more damage will migrate from beyond the drilling blow out.  

Two months after the offshore oil-drilling platform Deepwater Horizon exploded, the initial report has no specific knowledge of what happened or if it was even a blowout. How much has changed since April 20^th. The counting day clock is reminiscent of the CBS Walter Cronkite Iranian hostage countdown. The “Most Trusted Man in America” image died well before his passing. Replacing the naive belief in the accuracy of media reporting, today’s public relations spin is equal to the depth of the wellhead.

Some things Are Hard to Prove Even When You Have Proof of Them: Don’t Let Our Poisoned Gulf Be Another Such Enigma

J. Speer-Williams (C)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved

“So quick to dump over a million gallons of Corexit, BP must have expected a blow-out. Otherwise, how did over a million gallons of Corexit just happen to be available for the Gulf of Mexico?”

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Some called him Cassius, refusing to call him, Muhammad; while others demonstrated their liberalism by refusing to use what Muhammad Ali said was his slave name … Cassius Clay.

In any case, at breakfast, at the ATO fraternity house, the Gainesville Sun, of February 26^th 1964, told us that the boxing world had a new champion.

It was hard to believe that the Louisville Mouth that Roared – Muhammad Ali – could have so easily defeated the indomitable, Sonny Liston; but there it was, right in our daily paper.

Some things are hard to believe even when there’s proof of them.