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We need to wake the hell up, gents

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"1000% false." How is that possible?

 

I dunno, maybe that's from the same people that put on the back of my pill bottle that I'm getting 500% of my daily Vitamin C in 2 pills? blink.pnglaugh.png

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Easy ... 1000% is 10 times more wrong that 100%. dry.png Are you people unable to do the math? tongue.png

 

If you're still reading this, Jack, stay with this. Your concern for the environment is shared by most people here. But there's three problems with using THIS spill as a "wake up call".

 

1. It's NOT an environmental catastrophe. It, fortunately, happened in the middle of a dry, unused and isolated portion of real estate.

 

2. As devastating as the "tree huggers" want to portray the use of petroleum products ... it's just not so. The majority of the petroleum industry is safer than most other manufacturing. You don't hear about the billions of barrels of crude that are cleanly processed into products we take for granted everyday. (As has been listed in previous posts)

 

3. You need to do some research. There ARE environmental issues that people remain ignorant to. There ARE situations that we can fix, as individuals and at the layman level. This one isn't that.

 

 

It's not the production, but the use of gasoline, diesel and coal that is producing billions of tons of Carbon Dioxide.

 

1. Quit driving everywhere. Carpool, use public transportation or man powered vehicles to cut back on those green house gases. If you're not doing those things, you can't complain about the petroleum industry.

 

2. Turn off the main switch to your house every night and anytime you're out of the house. Shutting down all electricity usage like this reduces the amount of coal your local power plant needs to burn. If your not willing to do this ...

 

Well ... it's been stated on this thread already, but I am in full agreement. There are just too many people on the Planet. It's not the industries, it's the population that those industries serve that's to blame.

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It's not just that it's a spill, but in my opinion it happens way to often. They said it wasn't going to happen at all in their presentations to the people who's land the pipeline runs through, yet it happened and it hasn't even been a year since completion. Just like many promises that are put out there by most industries, "We are too safe for accidents" seems to be the the lie that they hope is true, but accidents happen, no matter what precautions are taken. That was a small one, but I just wonder what the cost would be if they put a better monitoring system online, or was that just too expensive to put "too much" protection in place.

 

We still don't know just how much damage was caused in the gulf by a company that took short cuts to save a few dollars then ended up paying billions, all because it would save a few hundred thousand by cheating on regulations. Was the short cut really a short cut?

 

I have to agree with mikechell in that we all can do more to help our planet survive a little longer, I'm as guilty as anyone due to the fact that I drive a lot for my business, but I haven't come up with an alternative, so I recycle almost everything I can. I have my own composting bin, and I don't use chemicals around my yard or home that are toxic or non-biodegradable if I can help it. The fact remains that I still have a huge footprint when it comes to my using of non-biodegradable materials that can't be recycled or repurposed.

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