Why, those despicable jerks! :mad:
I work in the environmental industry. Rule #1 is that industry is lying. They tell half-truths, submit studies with questionable methodologies, obstruct progress, and occasionally outright lie. Because $. That’s always the motivation. I see it day after day after day. The quarterly earnings report trumps everything else.
BP lied? Just another day at the office.
What is rule #2? 
Don’t talk about Rule #1.
Geez, get over it. They’ve already said they’re sorry.
Beat me to it!
I though BP was just making sure that the local wildlife was well lubricated.
Meh, I don’t think complacency is a very good response to corporate malfeasance, the threat is just too big. And BP is the poster boy for corporate malfeasance.
I should have put something in the OP about now matter how great the corporate crime, nobody. ever. goes. to. jail. Without ranting myself blue, that really, really bugs me a lot.
I thought this was a thread about butt-plugs.
Or maybe* it is!*
Well it isn’t British Petroleum, we know that much.
My theory is that it’s because of the very nature of corporations. They’re able to insulate all its members by pointing a circle of fingers or not leaving a decision paper trail so that no one is able to prove any individual was responsible and malfeasant.
Well … BP executives do have the responsibility to prop up stock prices … blame here rests on those shareholders gullible enough to believe this oil spill was inconsequential. They deserve to lose their money. I’ve heard “industry lies” all my life, and I’m still amazed to hear peoples think industry magically changed last night. When the press reported 5,000 gallons a day, my first thought was “Geez, 5,000 barrels a second is really bad, I better sell off my BP stock.”
I have long since liquidated my fossil fuel portfolio. Gave my son the car and bought beer instead of gas.
Is there nowhere else you can work?
Well, I for one am outraged, and vow never to shop again at any BP convenience store, even though I rarely do, because prices are better at Sheetz or GetGo.
But, butt-plugs (the item) can’t lie.
Industry is necessary. I turn on electric lights, drive a car, and use a computer every day. All supplied by industries. But the point of these businesses is to make money. Anything that takes away from that is to be avoided. That’s capitalism.
But that doesn’t mean I excuse their methods. I enjoy my gadgets, but I don’t want Love Canal to be the norm. I work in this field because I want balance.
And I’ll keep working to make sure that my little section of the world is left better after I’m gone than when I entered it.
So you don’t want love canal, that’s fine, that just means more love canal for the rest of us.