The blow out started on April 20th.
Now the Powers That Be admit to doubling their estimate for oil in the water. Multiply that by "pi" and you're getting close.
Back here in reality:
The 800-pound gorilla is a hurricane-driven storm surge.
Like Chernobyl, trust is also getting killed along with birds and people.
Rolling Stone's broadside piece.
Is anybody in or out of government working in the public interest ? What useful things can we do ?
MBTF :::
The whole management team from BP and the Obama Administration is focusing on the immediate problem.
For BP that means avoiding personal retributions for the top managers. The company will use bankruptcy protection and offshore legal shells to protect its asset base.
Gov. Jindal was right when he said that this is not getting a full effort. Hell, its not even getting a half effort. There is nothing whatsoever being done at the geyser to do skimming -- cuz that would lead to bigger fines.
The Federal government is handicapped by its own personnel. Holdover Bushies and their recently-promoted allies in the career bureaucracy at MMS and BLM are happy to see Obama fail.
Hell, getting Obama to fail is their raison d'etre.
Here's a start for limiting public disinformation:
Remember how the Bushies rode the "9/11 Changed Everything" bullshit motto all the way to Baghdad ?
K.I.S.S. works. Get the idea down to something quick and simple. Make it work.
The Obama Administration has been doing things like "consensus" and "open communication" and "get along, go along."
"April 20th Changed Everything" -- that's a plausible first step mentally for getting a handle on what Big Business can do to you.
Some of this new mindset could drift over to the financial industry. The DWH blow out was an accident; what Goldman, Sachs does is planned in detail.
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BTW: that map of Florida and the Gulf Coast shows what a hurricane can do. Throwing oil on shore with a 10-foot storm surge can pollute ground water for miles inland.
Its called Murphy's Law. Wrong thing happens, its gonna happen at the worst possible time.
Hurricanes know all about it.
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Yes there's a cafepress page: April20thChange
I'd like to keep this phrase from being misused. Otherwise, feel free to spread it around. Same for the map and getting answers on what people living in the Gulf's littoral are facing.
The Rolling Stone piece is a killer: HERE