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Shit happens, in this case BIG shit happened. This is not the time to point fingers but to make sure that the mess is being contained and cleaned up ASAP.
I think there is blame to be heaped on all involved, BP, environmentalist groups, whoever approved building that platform, the third party who build the part that broke, and us consumers. Yep, plenty groups to point the finger at. So once we cleaned up the mess and handed the bill over to BP (sorry , but they will have to pay for the clean up), we can start wagging our fingers in the faces of the guilty.
Lets be realistic here:
BP did not build the platform with the aim for it to break and spill all that oil - they rather collect, process and sell it to us consumer.
The environmentalists wanted to preserve the environment closer to shore - that they now ended up with a bigger mess, was certainly not on their agenda.
The government/s who approved the building of the platform wanted taxes & jobs - not the mess and worries they got now.
The third party who build the part that broke / failed wants to sell more of those thingies (soz don't know what exactly broke) - they did not build it to fail.
Consumer just want jobs, keep taxes in the country and cheaper oil / fuel. They didn't want the mess on their beaches nor having to pay for the clean up and penalties through higher prices.
It was an ACCIDENT. Unfortunate and catastrophic yes. Unavoidable? Maybe, if we could have just taken the human factor totally out of the equation.
BP is trying their best to clean up and will have to pay a hefty fine afterwards.
And no, I don't agree with what is happening and I do not work for BP. But the only way to avoid these things is not to built them in the first place. Otherwise we have to accept that things just can go wrong.
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