Too bad this isn't done here. Did anyone spend time in jail or even brought up on charges by our government for the Gulf Coast spill? We all know that answer.

So with this new news from Brazl, I expect gas will be another 5-10 cents more expensive today. Guess I should hurry up and top off my cars tank before the gas stations can post their new prices.

Chevron's spill in November leaked as many as 3,000 barrels from sea-floor cracks. It resulted in an $11 billion civil lawsuit, the largest environmental damages case in Brazil's history, although the total amount of oil was less than 0.1 percent of the BP spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Chevron's troubles in Brazil could force it to rethink Latin American strategies. A shortage of trained workers, engineers and equipment has driven up costs in Brazil, and Chevron faces an $18 billion environmental verdict in Ecuador.

Chevron is stopping production plans to better assess its "reservoir management plans" in Brazil, where it has spent over $2 billion developing the largest foreign-run oil field. The suspension will shut down a field with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels a day, more than 3 percent of Brazil's oil output.

...In other words, Let's stop drilling here where they fine us so heavily, and keep drilling in the USA where we get our hands slapped and can pay our minimal fines with the money we get in tax breaks and subsidies anyway.

Perhaps you should educate yourself on what is really happening. They will bring charges against the execs of the two companies. They will fine Chevron and force them out, and then the Brazilian government will take over the fields and reap the entire profit versus having to share with Chevron. Very similar to how the other countries have driven out the companies. This is nothing more than greed turned around.

I do believe that it is time for people who don't like the oil industry to stop using oil. The ridiculous rants against the companies and it's executives is ludicrous. It seems that you want to live in a world that doesn't exist. The fact is that the oil industry is engaged in dangerous activities. Things happen. Just because things happen doesn't mean that anyone involved is a criminal who should go to jail.

Using the analogy that theory that the left loves to use against the oil company, then the Obama administration should all be in jail. When the gulf spill occurred they were the ones overseeing it. Since the spill happened on their watch they must be criminals and should go to jail. The should have and failed to prevent the spill. Same with the economy. Obama said that it was necessary to spend almost a trillion dollars to keep the unemployment rate below 8%. Well, we've spent well more than that and it's still over 8%. The only logical conclusion is he lied and stole money from us. He is a criminal and should be put in jail. IE: He should be held accountable!

But, we all know that the only people the left wants to hold accountable is the right. The left are immune, even though they do more damage.

Hopefully more countries will do what America is too scared to do.. stand up to irresponsible capitalism.

This country is bought and paid for and the only hope is the rest of the world doesn't fall prey to what America has

"A shortage of trained workers, engineers and equipment has driven up costs in Brazil"

Actually, one word explain why cost are driven upward for oil and anything else in the world these days... "GREED"!

If you don't like it here then pack your bags and go where you are wanted, and i hear Iran is nice this time of year.

It's all about accountability witchrunner. Do you honestly believe that the oil/natural gas industry hasn't been running wild? Clearly, Brazil thinks they've been.

Natural seepage of oil occurs all the time. Oil is in the GROUND folks, it DOES percolate, it is lighter than water. And it was $20 billion that Oblama gave to Brazil, not $2 billion...Those EVIL oil companies!!!! They control EVERYTHING!!! Watch the tree huggin' lefties pile on THIS one...

Did anyone, but a very few, actually read this? "

Natural oil leaks in the Campos Basin, home to the Frade field, are common, Cleveland Jones, a geologist at UFRJ, the state university of Rio de Janeiro, said in an interview.

"Until there is some proof, there is a good chance that this leak is a natural occurrence, not something to do with Chevron," he said. "Leaks of this size are common, and are how people realized there was oil in the area in the first place."'

And the last sentence tells it all. If course geologists don't know anything, right?

The facts aren't IN on this but it could very well be, as stated in the article, that it is a Natural Occurrence and the fact that this sort of thing is HOW they discovered OIL there in the first place!

But, hell, let's just put them all in jail, just in case!

If you LIBERALS want OUR oil and gas prices to stabilize it is very simple! Quit buying from the WORLD MARKET and become energy independent! It is OUR oil, after all, not the Government's or Big Oil's!

Why aren't all you bleeding hearts UP IN ARMS that we are SELLING our oil to other Countries? We only get pennies on the gallon on these sales but the speculators and Big Oil are reaping huge profits selling it on the World Market! In case you haven't kept up, we have been a NET EXPORTER of Oil and refined products for a year!

The refineries COULDN'T keep up with our demand for Oil and Gas until Big Oil figured out they could export, at great profit, on the World Market! Now, all of a sudden, it comes to light that they have plenty of capacity and have had all along!

And, who do we have to thank for this? Think, who controls 2/3rds of government!

We should be buying OUR OIL from OURSELVES without speculators getting their fingers in OUR pie! We should be buying OUR OIL at something less than $30/barrel, not 3-4 times that on the World Market!

Why aren't all you bleeding hearts UP IN ARMS that we are SELLING our oil to other Countries?

Pay attention. We are.

Julie-401527

Too bad this isn't done here. Did anyone spend time in jail or even brought up on charges by our government for the Gulf Coast spill?...

Well...why don't you go to jail Julie, I'm sure your paying them for their product.

Hey Papa.... We should be buying OUR OIL from OURSELVES without speculators getting their fingers in OUR pie! We should be buying OUR OIL at something less than $30/barrel, not 3-4 times that on the World Market!

Thats Red talk man!

The US has more than 200 million barrels of oil on reserve. When do you people finally wake up and smell the coffee? Oil is a fossil fuel that you can't keep drilling, drilling, drilling endlessly and think there's no limit to its supply. How stupid is it to constantly force yourself to be a hostage of Big Oil when there are so many alternatives now?

Big Oil is Big BS when it comes to predatory pricing. They use any possible excuse for inching up the cost and all that does as the last 3 years prove is earn them obscene profits all while they collect taxpayer subsidies.

The only reason oil prices go so high are speculators on Wall Street and the Big Oil Bois lust and greed. No other reason. The minute Iran was out in the wind, suddenly oil prices were "going to $5". BS. The minute it appeared as if there would be a detente between Iran and the US, oil prices went down again.

Big Oil may be a lot of things. But totally lacking in greed isn't one of them. Their oil speculators need to be investigated now. In the meantime, get yourselves a fuel efficient vehicle and give up those damn gas guzzlers. Otherwise, don't bitch about oil prices. Sorry, you can't have it both ways.

I'm sure that oil company executives from foreign countries are scrambling to put in place methods of running their Brazil operations from outside of the country.

Of course, if every country treated environmental damages as the criminal acts they are and held the executives personally responsible, there would be virtually NO oil spills.

Green Energy Failure: Windmills, Solar Panels and Hydro
Project

Can't Reliably Provide Power For 87 People

http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/2010/07/green-energy-failure-windmills-solar-panels-and-hydro-project-cant-reliably-provide-power-for-87-people/

The new 'green energy' system the residents of Eigg
installed

was designed to provide a meager 5kW (max.) of power per household. Via the Daily Mail:

Right now, however, their award-winning and highly
complex

a small heater or a kettle, but not all at once), is lying largely idle.

So the wind turbines are still and silent. The hydro
turbines in

menu at the Eigg Tearooms.

So what on earth's going on? Have the Eigg eco-innovators
been

system blown a fuse?

Er, no. It turns out that when the good people of Eigg
put their

they overlooked one possibility – a spell of lovely weather.

Go figure, no rain or wind and the solar panels

are not cutting it. Of course this is not a big deal to the residents of Eigg,

but imagine how chaotic this would be in a large US City.

We've never taken electricity for granted,' says Maggie,
61, has

lived on Eigg for 34 years and has a daughter and granddaughter living nearby.

'Until a couple of years ago, I was supplied by a tiny

or anything like that. And I was one of the lucky ones.'

A few of her neighbours had no running water and others
relied

on their own generator which had to be turned on every morning by hand.

'So if you got up for a pee in the middle of the night,
you had

to take a torch with you or fumble about in the dark,' she adds.

'And the noise was terrible. If you walked round in the
evening,

you'd hear a terrible thumping of generators.

If green energy can't reliably provide power for 87
residents

(who are not big consumers of electricity) how do supporters of 'green energy'

propose we are going to power large US cities using windmills

and solar panels?

The tiny island of Eigg off the coast of Scotland made a
big

push for 'green energy' recently. They designed their system to provide 95% of

the electrical needs for the 87 residents of their island. This should be

fairly straightforward, since the residents of the island are not big users of

electricity to start with. They only received regular electrical service in February

2008.

Job Creation

http://energytomorrow.org/job-creation/#/type/all

America's oil and natural gas industry supports 9.2 million men and women across the United States in a wide range of highly skilled, well-paying
professions. In fact, oil and natural gas industry exploration and production
wages are more than double the national average. An analysis of
API's public data, independent research and corporate annual reports finds that
the industry distributed $176 billion in wages paid to U.S. employees, plus
benefits and payments to oil and natural gas leaseholders.

Oil and natural gas companies invest in cutting-edge
technology and offer fulfilling careers to the next generation of American
engineers, geophysicists, chemists, earth scientists, geologists, climate
experts and explorers. These individuals, working with the best technologies,
will help find and recover oil and natural gas here and abroad and help secure
America's energy future. In addition, the industry employs professionals that
most people don't normally associate with our industry, such as botanists and
marine biologists, even zoologists and veterinarians.

With the right government policies in place, the oil and
natural gas industry can create more American jobs that can help grow the U.S.
economy, generate substantial new revenues for government and provide greater
energy security for our nation.

In fact, with increased access to U.S. oil and gas
resources we can create 1
million new jobs in the next ten years alone. To put that in perspective,
that would provide enough jobs for nearly every citizen of Rhode Island. A
recent study by Wood
Mackenzie found that by 2030, nearly 1.4 million new jobs could be added
through policies which encourage development of America's oil and natural
resources, and facilitate Canadian
oil sands production through the development of Keystone XL and other
related piplines. A few examples are as follows:

• Development of the Marcellus
  Shale alone could create 160,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, 20,000 jobs in
  New York and 30,000 jobs in West Virginia by 2015.
• The opening of Florida to
  exploration and development could result in up to 100,000 new
  Florida jobs by 2016--just with increased access to federal areas
  within the Gulf of Mexico.
• U.S. State Department approval of
  the Keystone XL
  pipeline could generate nearly
  85,000 jobs by 2020

To learn more about the Wood Mackenzie study and view
state specific job creation numbers, view this interactive job creation map.

Green Technology is an economic disaster

Goodnight Sunshine

Germany is cutting solar-power subsidies because they are expensive and
inefficient

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/project_syndicate/2012/02/why_germany_is_phasing_out_its_solar_power_subsidies_.html

Spain's Green Disaster a Lesson for America

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/finance/2011/November/Spains-Green-Disaster-a-Lesson-for-America/

The US Government is in bed with Big Oil and Great Britain. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats would dare to insult either of them by holding them accountable. Brazil doesn't really give a dang about rubbing elbows. If they can get more from holding US Citizens accountable, they will do so in a heartbeat!

And how much did BP pay for their spill in the gulf.

Transocean, the common denominator.

"Obama biggest recipient of BP money over past 20 years"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html

During 2009 - BP received a SAFETY award from Obama's Administration. After the oil rig explosion, (2010) Obama's administration cancelled another SAFETY Award they were going to issue to BP...

Prior to the drilling on Deepwater Horozon - the Obama administration granted the oil giant BP a special exemption from a legal requirement that it produce a detailed environmental impact study on the possible effects of its Deepwater Horizon drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico, an article Wednesday May 2010 in the Washington Post revealed.

I tried that before, none of the Environmental scholars seem to understand that oil is a natural part of our environment...and eventually every single drop will eventually find the surface (being lighter than water and all)

Millions and millions of gallons of oil like the spills in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, off the coast of Africa, etc., are never natural.

To become an Environmental scholar, the properties of water among other things like the presence of oil is covered in their undergraduate courses with the lead numbers in the 100's...for example: Elemental Properties of the Environment 101.

I'm not so sure its natural, natural sounds good but you know the o$l companies, always thinking...

I tried that before

sea floor cracks my ass, keep on trying

Funny stuff. "It's just natural cracks and obviously the government of Brazil has just decided to start detaining the top executives of one of the country's major industries just to "extort" them."

If "things like this are not that uncommon in South American countries" I would be interested in a link or two to a similar story. I wonder if it is possible, just POSSIBLE, that these oil corporations might sometimes cut corners in order to increase profits and are sometimes called on it. Of course, how could I really know if this is "one of those times" from one early news article unless I was just a biased apologist?

Brazil is home to *thousands* of global multinational corporations, and has yet to nationalize any of them. Like our own nation, when there is a suspected crime, people get arrested and an investigation and trial commence to determine guilt or innocence.

What is probably so surprising to you is the fact that a passel of wealthy executives are being treated like everyone else.

I know it seems strange at first... just give it a little time.

Ah, Brazilians have common sense and fun!

You made an error.

Your sentence should read 'In a legal tussel they can probably tie things up for decades... in America.'

The rest of the world doesn't always put up with the corporate BS we've been expected to accept here.

You sure nailed it. I lived in the 3rd world for 6 years, and all the people screaming about how terrible it is here should go see how most of the 3rd world lives.

if we leave then you fools will let the powers that be get away with more @!$%# that damages the netire world.

nope we are staying and were going to keep fighting until we win, or you take us out once for all..

SO put up or STFU

1. Brazil is hardly the 'third world'

2. In case you haven't noticed since you last whined about it, the U.S. has plenty of crime and poverty.

3. The economy of Brazil just surpassed the economy of Great Britain and has been growing faster than ours for a decade.

Please update your stale old ideas of how the U.S. is so superior to the rest of the 'third world'. You wouldn't believe how much has changed since you've been glued to your AM radio. It seems like the more we go begging to corporations, and fight their battles, the poorer we become-- the rest of the world seems to have learned from our hilarious mistakes.

How pathetic that Mr. 'cannot travel out of the country because I'm a war criminal' spent trillions of my tax dollars on two unnecessary, underfunded wars. Mr. Bush I wan't my tax dollars AND my dead soldiers back or are you really the worst president in this country's history!!!!

Go away troll

Chuck M, if you would have done any research instead of just using talking points....you would know that the money we sent to Brazil was a loan not a gift. And Mr. Obama did not send it, our country did.

Unfortunatly China was in Brazil FIRST - They loaned them over 10+Billion USD and received guarantees for oil/NG deliveries for up to 200,000 barrels of oil per day for the next decade....

Obama’s $2 billion to Brazil just ends up helping send oil to China...

Wehere in the United States only have 1.5% of the world's proven reserves of petroleum left. Therefore to get what at is left of the remaining 98.5% the oil executives have to get it from outside the United States. Some countries, these executives have bought off the leaders and they do pretty much as they please. In Nigeria for example, Shell Oil operated with impunity making the rivers and off shore areas into a toxic waste dump. One leader who tried to lead the people in protecting their environment was arrested by the government and hanged. Shell Oil, in spite of the influence they have over the government there, did nothing to stop the execution and now goes on with business as usual with no one stopping them. Brazil is a different matter. Good for Brazil! I hope these oil executives get what they have coming to them for what they did to the enviroment there. We could have been free of oil decades ago, had it not been for the influence of these oil moguls.

Where did you pull that 1.5% figure from??? We have one of the largest shale oil deposits in the world???Not counting that??

It is often REPORTED that (regardless of the % of world supply) we have approximately 100 YEARS supply of OIL and NATURAL GAS (each) "under our feet"!

Given that FACT, why is this Administration pushing to wean us off oil in ONE Presidential Term? We have, comfortably, 50 YEARS for science and technology to catch up and provide us with alternatives.

We may be the World's largest, single, consumer of OIL but there is a lot more to the world than just us! Every emerging industrial Nation consumes oil and because we are subsidizing their growth by buying from them, we are encouraging them to consume even more OIL! On top of that, they don't have ANY environmental concerns because they don't give a crap about it!

All you TREE HUGGERS seem to forget that THIS COUNTRY got to where we are BECAUSE OF our Oil, Natural Gas and Coal to provide the energy! You also IGNORE the fact that WE are the only Nation to, really, enact any controls to minimize our impact on the environment!

So, now, we are supposed to go bankrupt trying to force science and technology to get us to ZERO carbon output to make up for the pollution of the rest of the WORLD? A lovely, Liberal ideal but not a reality that will keep us as the leader of the free world!

Where did you pull that 1.5% figure from??? We have one of the largest shale oil deposits in the world???Not counting that??

That's counting the shale. You don't know much about shale and neither does that idiot Santorum who held up a chunk of shale at his victory primary speech. Only between 1 and 2% is recoverable. They don't dig this stuff up and crush it to get at the 98% locked in that rock. They would have dig up a volume of shale equal to digging a new Panama Canal each day to meet our needs! The amount of energy they would get from that oil from that shale would be far outweighed by the amount of energy to get that oil in having to dig it up and crush it out of the rock! So, you know what they do instead? They do fracking. They pump water down there and force up just the residue. The real bulk of that oil stays in the ground where there is no way to get at it.

The President is only trying to begin the process (in one term of office) of reducing our oil usage, for example by approving new vehicle fuel efficiency standards that won't even fully take effect for several more years. And the U.S. recognizes that all nations (including China) must be included in international negotiations to reduce carbon emissions.

It is often REPORTED that (regardless of the % of world supply) we have approximately 100 YEARS supply of OIL and NATURAL GAS (each) "under our feet"!

The world began with one Lake Erie filled of oil. We now have one half of a Lake Erie. It took us just over a hundred years to empty this Lake Erie's worth with many of those early years of the 20th Century hardly using any at all. Before World War II was when the real guzzling began. Now we are chugging down this stuff like there is no tormorrow. What lasted a hundred years, can't possibly last another hundred years like the first half. And what is left is much harder and expensive to get at. We don't have a choice anymore. We have to get off this stuff. The good news is that renewable energy is doable, it is cheap, it is unlimited and it will never run out.

So, now, we are supposed to go bankrupt trying to force science and technology to get us to ZERO carbon output to make up for the pollution of the rest of the WORLD? A lovely, Liberal ideal but not a reality that will keep us as the leader of the free world!

The oil industry is given each year 4 Billion dollars in tax subsidies. That money is enough to pay for enough wind turbine generators equal to 3,000 Mega Watts of power. That is equal to one and a half Hoover Dams. Each year we spend 700 Billion dollars for foreign oil. That is enough money to pay for 250 Hoover Dams' worth. If we had 500 Hoover Dams, that would supply all our electrical power, not needing anything else. We could run all our cars on electricity too. Problem solved. You and your filthy stinkin oil isn't doing us any favors.

It is often REPORTED that (regardless of the % of world supply) we have approximately 100 YEARS supply of OIL and NATURAL GAS (each) "under our feet"!

The world began with one Lake Erie filled of oil. We now have one half of a Lake Erie. It took us just over a hundred years to empty this Lake Erie's worth with many of those early years of the 20th Century hardly using any at all. Before World War II was when the real guzzling began. Now we are chugging down this stuff like there is no tormorrow. What lasted a hundred years, can't possibly last another hundred years like the first half. And what is left is much harder and expensive to get at. We don't have a choice anymore. We have to get off this stuff. The good news is that renewable energy is doable, it is cheap, it is unlimited and it will never run out.

So, now, we are supposed to go bankrupt trying to force science and technology to get us to ZERO carbon output to make up for the pollution of the rest of the WORLD? A lovely, Liberal ideal but not a reality that will keep us as the leader of the free world!

The oil industry is given each year 4 Billion dollars in tax subsidies. That money is enough to pay for enough wind turbine generators equal to 3,000 Mega Watts of power. That is equal to one and a half Hoover Dams. Each year we spend 700 Billion dollars for foreign oil. That is enough money to pay for 250 Hoover Dams' worth. If we had 500 Hoover Dams, that would supply all our electrical power, not needing anything else. We could run all our cars on electricity too. Problem solved. You and your filthy stinkin oil isn't doing us any favors.

Pappadave needs to keep up with thr REAL estimates of natural gas reserves. Try starting with the bogus Marcellus estimates pappa.

It has taken between 50-300 million years to form, and yet we have managed to burn roughly half of all global oil reserves in merely 125 years or so.

The world now consumes 85 million barrels of oil per day, or 40,000 gallons per second, and demand is growing exponentially.

http://www.oildecline.com/

Radar015, do you know how much gas and oil it would take to build 500 wind turbines since they are made out of petroleum products? How much petroleum products would it take to build 500 Hoover dams along with the environmental damage to the rivers? As 3rd world countries mature and develop they will use more and more petroleum products. It's not just cars that use petroleum products it's used in the making of many products we use on a daily basis such as water and sewer pipe as a couple of examples. If wind turbine is the answer, why are they being abandoned across the US? Because their is not enough infrastructure in place to get the power where it needs to go and no one wants to pay for it.

Where are wind turbines being abandoned? There may be a few examples, but I suspect not many. Yes, some infrastructure investment is needed for wind and solar, but that's an investment we need to make. And non-fuel uses of petroleum are not the issue; if we used much less for fuel, there would be plenty to make plastics and other products for a long time to come.

EricH-3359508,

CA is ordered to remove hundreds of wind turbines due to Raptor deaths... see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/02/MNITTM9FA.DTL

Hawaii & CA wind turbines are abandoned due to souring maintenance cost... see http://www.zimbio.com/member/StoryReports/articles/qmUuK2zben5/Abandoned+Rusted+Wind+Turbines+Reflect+Hoax

UK has hundreds of off-shore wind turbines sinking & tilting... see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265886/Sinking-turbines-cost-British-wind-farms-50million.html

Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the landscape of wind energy's California "big three" locations -- Altamont Pass, Tehachapi, and San Gorgonio -- considered among the world's best wind sites.

California's wind farms -- then comprising about 80% of the world's wind generation capacity -- ceased to generate much more quickly than Kamaoa. In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills... see http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/wind_energys_ghosts_1.html

The Altamont Pass wind turbines are the old design (with smaller blades that rotate fast) dating back to the 1980s; there are far fewer problems with new designs. New wind installations are already competitive with other sources of electricity.

EricH-3359508,

So lets change them out every thirty years or so...

Sounds like a valid economical approach to me... Ha! Ha!

Just like the solar panels that have to be replaced every 20 to 30+years due to decreasing efficiency and souring maintenance cost...

Where are your references that prove they are competitive over their expected service life???

But refineries are maintenance free forever?

Stand up, speak out,

How many NEW refineries have been built in the USA during the last 36+years???

US: No New Refineries in 29 Years

by Jad Mouawad, New York Times dtd May 9th, 2005

You made my point.

One of the largest income streams for the Federal Government after personnel income taxes is...

Taxes & Royalties collected from the energy companies... see http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/06/darrell-issa/issa-says-oil-royalties-trail-only-taxes-generalti/

While the energy companies receive tax credits & incentives from the US Government. The amount they PAY is considerably HIGHER...

Plus they act as a collection agent for the US & State governments for the fuel taxes, the consumer pays...

Lets talk about the RETURNS from the Green Energy pets:

I. The Volt

1. Everyone comes with at $7,500+USD tax credit...

2. They pay little road use taxes...

3. Some states are providing FREE charging stations...

II. Wind Turbines

1. California's wind farms -- then comprising about 80% of the world's wind generation capacity -- ceased to generate much more quickly than Kamaoa. In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills... see http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/wind_energys_ghosts_1.html

2. Hawaii & CA wind turbines are abandoned due to souring maintenance cost... see http://www.zimbio.com/member/StoryReports/articles/qmUuK2zben5/Abandoned+Rusted+Wind+Turbines+Reflect+Hoax

3. UK has hundreds of off-shore wind turbines sinking & tilting... see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265886/Sinking-turbines-cost-British-wind-farms-50million.html

III. Solar power

Research the Blyth, CA thermal/solar panel facility. Projected service life of the reflectors & PANELS - 30+years. Forget about the water table depletion, the endangered animals/plants, and the destroyed American Indian heritage sites (geoglyphs)...

I only see a pay-out NO return to the Fed or States...

Well then why does the company not have a containment plan in place for these 'natural leaks' ?

Hey! I've got an idea! Let's require all the Oil Companies to blanket the oceans with containments just in case some percolates to the surface somewhere on the planet! Think of all the jobs it will create!

How about that blond wearing that black pants suit walking over a big map saying oil and gas is great and creates jobs for millions of people? Does that include the people hired to clean up the messes they make?

That's exactly what I was picturing. I hope that lying sack of vomit gets a terminal case of the crabs.

Either that, or start a campaign to take away their WMD's ???

Only if Romney get's in and the 1% lets him

Most of the tourist dollars are spent on the beaches and not the rainforest. Get a clue were the dollars come from my friend.

Shut up

Mary i love your comment